Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America
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 cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as indigenous resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters.At times indigenous knowledges represented a middle ground of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed…
Mehr
CHF 41.25
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
Versandkostenfrei
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Krech III, Shepard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8214-4411-5
- EAN: 9780821444115
- Produktnummer: 20435475
- Verlag: Ohio University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'575 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
2 weitere Werke von David M. (Hrsg.) Gordon:
Bewertungen
Anmelden