Indigenous knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology

Summary: Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and evolutionary philosophy.

Record details

ISBN: 9780415879248
ISBN: 0415879248
ISBN: 9780203847114
ISBN: 0203847113
Physical Description: print
xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2011 [i.e. 2010], ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Defining traditional ecological knowledge -- All things are connected : communities as both ecological and social entities in Indigenous American thought -- Predators not prey : "wolves of creation" rather than "lambs of God" -- Metaphors and models : indigenous knowledge and evolutionary ecology -- Cultural and biological creation and the concept of relatedness -- Applying principles of TEK within the western scientific tradition -- Connected to the land : nature and spirit in Native American novels -- Ecological Indians : European imaginations and indigenous reality -- A critical comment on both western science and indigenous responses to the western scientific tradition -- Who speaks for the buffalo? : finding the indigenous in academia -- Traditional ecological knowledge : the third alternative.