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Local science vs. global science : approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development / edited by Paul Sillitoe.
While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values. This text incorporates what is known about this development.
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- ISBN: 1845450140
- ISBN: 9781845450144
- Physical Description: xi, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Local science vs. global science : an overview / Paul Sillitoe -- Traditional medical knowledge and twenty-first century healthcare / Gerard Bodeker -- Local and scientific understandings of forest diversity on Seram, Eastern Indonesia / Roy Ellen -- 'Indigenous' and 'scientific' knowledge in central Cape York Peninsula / Benjamin R. Smith -- On knowing and not knowing : the many valuations of Piaroa local knowledge / Serena Heckler -- The Ashkui project : linking western science and Innu environmental knowledge in creating a sustainable environment / Trudy Sable with Geoff Howell, Dave Wilson, and Peter Penashue -- Globalisation and the construction of western and non-western knowledge / Michael R. Dove [and others] -- Science and local knowledge in Sri Lanka : extension, rubber and farming / Mariella Marzano -- Creating natural knowledge : agriculture, science and experiments / Alberto Arce and Eleanor Fisher -- Is intellectual property protection a good idea? / Charles Clift -- Farmer knowledge and scientist knowledge in sustainable agricultural development : ontology, epistemology and praxis / David A. Cleveland and Daniela Soleri -- Forgotten futures : scientific models vs. local visions of land use change / Robert E. Rhoades and Virginia Nazarea -- Counting on local knowledge / Paul Sillitoe.
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Applied anthropology.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | GN 476 .L63 2007 | 271880 | Stacks | Reshelving | - |
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