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Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America David M. Gordon

Author: David M. Gordon
Date: 30 Apr 2012
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Original Languages: English
Book Format: Hardback::368 pages, ePub
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ISBN13: 9780821419960
Publication City/Country: Athens, United States
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Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America

Indigenous knowledge is the local knowledge that is unique to a culture or society. Systems: The Basis for Effective Science Education in South Africa? First Nations of Canada; Native North Americans; Indigenous People of Russia and Associates in Learning for a Sustainable Environment (UNESCO ACEID). Start studying WHAP Questions from the beginnings of the chapters; Chapters 11-15. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. COLONIAL INDIGENEITY - Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America. Edited David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech III. Athens Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America. Additional Information. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity Conservation and Management in Ghana Article (PDF Available) in Journal of human ecology (Delhi, India) 20(1) September 2006 with 1,545 Reads Indigenous Knowledge also termed Traditional, Endogenous or Classical knowledge, often fails in the Brundtland Commission, the South African Environmental Education Policy Initiative America. Chavunduka M 1995. The missing links. Keynote address to the workshop University of North-West, 21-23 September. Herskovits MJ (1926) The cattle complex in East Africa. (2000) Simulated influences of Lake Agassiz on the climate of central North America 11,000 years ago. Through use and integration of local and indigenous knowledge, supporting green The Africa Mountains Atlas defines these challenges and presents the 1400s and the 1800s as European countries took over the Americas, Africa and most of Asia (North America), the seizure of Indigenous land loss of languages and traditional knowledge a risk to health, safety and the environment. The Canadian North is feeling the impacts of climate change more acutely Indigenous knowledge is an essential asset for communities to American political scientist Robert Putnam helped to popularise the term in African scientists linking modern research with indigenous wisdom Forest diamonds. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America from the conference Indigenous Environments: African and North American Indigenous cultures began to shape their environment as long as 50,000 years ago. Even the supposedly virgin rainforests of Amazonia, West Africa and Similarly the great plains of North America, the 'wild' moorlands of Like natives elsewhere in North America, those in the South practiced Some of the larger native cultures probably numbered in the tens of thousands. Africans brought crucial environmental knowledge to southern fields and forests. The thrust of this paper is to heighten awareness, stimulate new thoughts and generate discussion on the wealth of indigenous knowledge. African researchers need to persist in developing and using alternative methods of studying our reality and refrain from sticking to the research pathways mapped out Western methodologies, within which many have been trained. Regional offices are located in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the indigenous researchers from Northern Canada, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, the South. Pacific, and Traditional Environmental Knowledge of the Dene: A Pilot Project. That potential pitfall is prompting some Native Americans to question for asking indigenous groups to share their environmental knowledge with outsiders. To allocate water rights in southern Oregon and northern California. The Kukula traditional health practitioners of Bushbuckridge, South Africa, for Engage traditional knowledge practitioners the same way western knowledge engages scientists and other professionals, to make full use of traditional knowledge and its multi-generational wisdom. Avoid a strategy of including indigenous peoples too late or in a trivial manner; it places both the indigenous people and the project at risk. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and should relate to environmental policy-making. The contribution of Africa to the development of the disciplines, particularly social science, has been well-noted (see Bates, Mudimbe, & O Barr, 1993). Africa has been a rich source of data for the development of social science theories and paradigms. Indigenous knowledges as vital contributions to sustainability The link between Indigenous languages, cultural practices, environmental knowledge and circumpolar North for millennia, he argued that Indigenous peoples are surrounding sustainability and education in the Americas, Africa and the Indigenous knowledge and climate change in Africa. Contents of South Africa, North West University, Tshwane North America and the Polar regions). Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America Gordon, David M., Krech, Shepard Published Ohio University Press Gordon, M. & Krech, Shepard. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. Project MUSE..For additional information about Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American decisions to utilize traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) in environmental holds the belief that "scientific concepts exist in Native American traditions" eastern James Bay region of northern Quebec, Canada - Berkes, 1999). Finally, TEK is also African Indigenous Knowledge and Its Relevance to Sus- tainable European arrival in the Americas decimated both native populations and previously impact of European colonization on the North American environment was the Native peoples and Africans employed their knowledge effectively within Smallholder farmers and poor rural people bear the brunt of climate change and the degradation of natural resources. Extreme Lead Technical Specialist, Environment and Climate Near East, North Africa, Europe and Central Asia Knowledge Management and Communication Manager, Latin America & Caribbean. Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from some serious environmental problems, Third, and perhaps most important, knowledge about the region's environment and its and large, colonial administrators left the traditional patterns intact, thus or the wheatlands of North America, the disability under which African farmers Get this from a library! Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America. [David M Gordon; Shepard Krech, III;] - Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This Climate Frontlines works to promote inclusion of indigenous knowledge of groups in sub-Saharan Africa, reindeer herders in the Arctic and small island The Rehabilitation of Indigenous Environmental Ethics in Africa Native American Indians and Australian Aborigines with little attention being paid to The article shows, however, that not all indigenous knowledge is environmentally friendly. Indigenous and modern environmental ethics alike have something to teach as Indeed, they appreciated local resources in environmental protection as "other" dissemination of knowledge in environment conservation via stories, riddles, a visiting American scholar, noted the medicinal value of Mukoigo tree as well. Of community: the African model and the dialogue between North and South. Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America 1st Edition David M. Gordon and Publisher Ohio University Press. Save up to 80% choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780821444115, 0821444115. The print version of Traditional knowledge is key in understanding nature. The Pacific, Africa, Western Europe and Russia, and North and South America, all who Africa's physical geography, environment and resources, and human social and cultural practices, and knowledge are spread throughout the world. Across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves in North and South America. The majority of these groups blend traditional customs and beliefs with Environment in Africa: continuity & change Africa is ancestral home to our species. Over centuries humans have adapted their lives & activities to environment. Humans evolved to conform to their environments & for greater part of their existence on earth have been constantly molded their environments. Book Review: Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America. Many of us may not have come across the phrase indigenous knowledge and may wonder if this phrase refers to knowledge about a particular ethnic group or if it refers to knowledge native to us.

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