[PDF] Indigenous Knowledge Ecology And Evolutionary Biology eBook

Author : Raymond Pierotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 29,41 MB
Release : 2010-09-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 1136939024

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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. Pierotti takes a look at the scientific basis of this approach, focusing on different concepts of communities and connections among living entities, the importance of understanding the meaning of relatedness in both spiritual and biological creation, and a careful comparison with evolutionary ecology. The text examines the themes and principles informing this knowledge, and offers a look at the complexities of conducting research from an indigenous perspective.

Author : Fikret Berkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136341722

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Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. This third edition further develops the point that traditional knowledge as process, rather than as content, is what we should be examining. It has been updated with about 150 new references, and includes an extensive list of web resources through which instructors can access additional material and further illustrate many of the topics and themes in the book. Winner of the Ecological Society of America's 2014 Sustainability Science Award.

Author : Shepard Krech
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393321005

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Krech (anthropology, Brown U.) treats such provocative issues as whether the Eden in which Native Americans are viewed as living prior to European contact was a feature of native environmentalism or simply low population density; indigenous use of fire; and the Indian role in near-extinctions of buffalo, deer, and beaver. He concludes that early Indians' culturally-mediated closeness with nature was not always congruent with modern conservation ideas, with implications for views of, and by, contemporary Indians. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Melissa K. Nelson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108428568

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Provides an overview of Native American philosophies, practices, and case studies and demonstrates how Traditional Ecological Knowledge provides insights into the sustainability movement.

Author : Thomas Henfrey
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2018-09-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1785339893

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Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use. Developing an original framework for holistic analysis, it demonstrates that flexible interplay among multiple modes of environmental understanding and decision-making allows the Wapishana to navigate socio-ecological complexity successfully in ways that reconcile short-term material needs with long-term maintenance and enhancement of the resource base.

Author : Fikret Berkes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Environmental sciences
ISBN : 9781560326946

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Dr Berkes approaches traditional ecological knowledge as a knowledge-practice-belief complex. This complex considers four interrelated levels: local knowledge (species specific); resource management systems (integrating local knowledge with practice); social institutions (rules and codes of behavior); and world view (religion, ethics, and broadly defined belief systems). Divided into three parts that deal with concepts, practice, and issues, respectively, the book first discusses the emergence of the field, its intellectual roots and global significance. Substantive material is then included on how traditional ecological and management systems actually work. At the same time it explores a diversity of relationships that different groups have developed with their environment, using extensive case studies from research conducted with the Cree Indians of James Bay, in the eastern subarctic of North America. The final section examines traditional knowledge as a challenge to the positivist-reductionist paradigm in Western science, and concludes with a discussion of the potential of traditional ecological knowledge to inject a measure of ethics into the science of ecology and resource management.

Author : Edward A. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 31,55 MB
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1009416677

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This book considers the similarities and differences between Indigenous knowledge and science and how, when taken together, they enrich one other. Advanced students and researchers in natural resource management, ecology, conservation, and environmental sciences will learn about the practices of Indigenous people in the natural world.

Author : International Program on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Publisher : Ottawa, Ont., Canada : International Program on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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A collection of papers on traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) presented at the Common property conference, a follow-up of the Earth Summit (1992). In these papers the underlying concepts of TEK, case studies, and its potential in resource and environmental management are presented