Development and Local Knowledge - New Approaches to Issues in Natural Resources Management,

Zusatztext 'One cannot help but be impressed with the richness of field findings used to substantiate the various arguments ... It deserves a wide and serious reading.' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Informationen zum Autor Alan Bicker, Paul Stillitoe and Johan Pottier are the editors of Participating in Development . Alan Bicker lectures in anthropology at the University of Kent in Cantabury. Paul Stillitoe is Head of Anthropology at the University of Durham and Johan Pottier is Head of Anthropology at SOAS in London. All three have wrotten widely on issues surrounding development and forms of indiginous knowledge Klappentext This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change. Zusammenfassung This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, 1 Introduction: Hunting for theory, gathering ideology, 2 Powerful knowledge: Applications in a cultural context, 3 Management of knowledge and social transformation: A case study from Guatemala, 4 Indigenous knowledge confronts development among the Duna of Papua New Guinea, 5 The knowledge of indigenous desire. Disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea, 6 Close encounters of the Third World kind: Indigenous knowledge and relations to land, 7 International animation: UNESCO, biodiversity and sacred sites, 8 The globalization of indigenous rights in Tanzanian pastoralist NGOs, 9 Domestic animal diversity, local knowledge and stockraiser rights, 10 Sandy-clay or clayey-sand? Mapping indigenous and scientific soil knowledge on the Bangladesh floodplains, 11 Keeping tradition in good repair: The evolution of indigenous knowledge and the dilemma of development among pastoralists, Index...

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• Authors: Alan (EDT)/ Sillitoe Bicker, Alan Pottier Bicker, Alan Sillitoe Bicker, BICKER ALAN SILLITOE PAUL POTTIE
• Assisted by: Alan Bicker (Editor), Bicker Alan (Editor), Johan Pottier (Editor), Pottier Johan (Editor), Paul Sillitoe (Editor), Sillitoe Paul (Editor), Paul Stillitoe (Editor), Stillitoe Paul (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2003
• EAN: 9780415318266
• ISBN: 978-0-415-31826-6
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology; Studies in Environmental Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Cultural Studies, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Zoology: birds (ornithology), Birds (ornithology), Animals & society, Indonesia, Animals and society