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Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives (Studies in Environmental Anthropology) by Roy F. Ellen; Peter Parkes; Alan Bicker is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives (Studies in Environmental Anthropology) about?

The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resources. Review Excellent, thoughtful, challenging papers....Overall, the book documents many cases of misuse and abuse of 'IK' and explains with insight problems with the concept....Recommended for professionals and development workers. –CHOICE, June 2001

Who reads Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)?

Author

Roy F. Ellen; Peter Parkes; Alan Bicker

Publisher

harwood academic publishers

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780203480083

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Anthropology, Philosophy, Science