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Conversations in the rainforest : culture, values, and the environment in Central Africa

Author: Richard B Peterson
Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Richard B Peterson
ISBN: 0813337097 9780813337098
OCLC Number: 42968177
Description: xvi, 320 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Conservation for Whom? 2 --
Limitations of Imported Knowledge 4 --
Thinking About Our Thinking 5 --
Limitations of Indigenous Technical Knowledge 6 --
Decolonizing the Mind: Beyond ITK Toward Afrocentricity 8 --
Afrocentricity and the Environment 9 --
Tale of the Microhydro and the Mami Wata 10 --
Bridge Blueprints 13 --
2 Central African Land Ethics: Theoretical Questions and Research Perspectives 21 --
Ecology, Values, and Value Transformation 22 --
Environmental Ethics in Global Perspective 23 --
Environmental Ethics in Central Africa 24 --
Universalism and Pluralism: The "One/Many Problem" 26 --
Is Nature Normative? Premodern World Views and Postmodern Ecological Science 29 --
What Is Africa? Listening to Local People's Voices 38 --
So What? Central African Environmental Ethics and Environmental Justice 43 --
Repair and Reconstruction: Signs of Hope Grounded in African Soil 47 --
Methods and Research Process 48 --
3 Narratives on Nature: An Opening Conversation with Ubangian Farmers 60 --
A Narrative Approach 62 --
Loko: Amid Forest and Savanna 63 --
Bogofo: An Initial Group Discussion 68 --
4 Parts of a Whole: Nature, Society, and Cosmology in the Ubangi 86 --
Making a Living: Implicit Means of Conservation 87 --
Living with Neighbors: The Individual-Community Relationship 106 --
Living with Meaning in an Interconnected World 117 --
5 Reservations About Nature Reserves: Local Voices on Conservation in the Ituri 147 --
Background: The Ituri Forest 148 --
From Mambasa to Epulu 151 --
Badengaido: Living Within the RFO 158 --
Mbuti Perspectives on the Forest and the RFO 190 --
Bapukele Elders: "The Animals Have Received Their Independence and Are Destroying Our Food" 208 --
Upshot 214 --
Paulin Mboya: "If Local People Don't Support the Reserve, It Will Fail" 217 --
6 One Step Removed: The Voices of University-Educated Project Staff and Local Academics 225 --
Voices of Contrast 227 --
Searching for Common Ground 241 --
7 Conclusion: Lessons for Environmental Practice, Theory, and Ethics 253 --
Loko, the CEUM, and Individual-Community Relations 254 --
Epulu, the RFO, and Human-Environment Relations 259.
Responsibility: Richard B. Peterson.
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