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Local science vs. global science : approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development
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Local science vs. global science : approaches to indigenous knowledge in international development

Author: Paul Sillitoe
Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Series: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology, v. 4
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Paul Sillitoe
ISBN: 1845450140 9781845450144
OCLC Number: 70158418
Description: xi, 288 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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 ... [et al.] -- 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.
Series Title: Studies in environmental anthropology and ethnobiology, v. 4
Other Titles: Local science versus global science
Responsibility: edited by Paul Sillitoe.
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