Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America

Name: Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America
Author: David Malcolm Gordon, Shepard Krech

by David Malcolm Gordon, Shepard Krech

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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."--pub. desc.

Traditional ecological knowledgeEcologyIndigenous peoplesIndigenous peoples, africaNorth america, environmental conditionsNorth america, historyConservation of Natural ResourcesHistoryEnvironmentHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeEthnologyTraditional Medicine