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If development is to continue to involve outside mediated interventions, in the belief that foreigners have knowledge and resources that can assist in relieving the degrading poverty endured by millions, the policymakers, scientists and bureaucrats need better to appreciate indigenous knowledge both before and while intervening locally.
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List of Tables; List of Figures; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction; 1 The State of Indigenous Knowledge in Bangladesh 3; 2 Indigenous Technical Knowledge: Unexplored Potential for Sustainable Development 23; 3 Towards an Understanding of Indigenous Knowledge 27; 4 Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability: On the Brink of Disaster or Revolution? 31; 5 Development Disasters: The Role of Indigenous Knowledge and Practices 37; 6 Investigating Indigenous Knowledge: A Review of the Bangladeshi Literature on Natural Resources 41; 7 Use of Indigenous Knowledge in the Sustainable Development of Bangladeshi Farm Forestry 57; 8 Tree Pathology and Bangladeshi Agroforestry Practices 65; 9 In Praise of the Indigenous Neem Tree 71; 10 Indigenous Knowledge of Plant Use in a Hill Tracts Tribal Community and Its Role in Sustainable Development 75; 11 Wild Vegetables: A Valuable Natural Resource for the Rural Poor 79; 12 Local Vegetable Seed Storage Methods and Women's Participation in Development 91; 13 Medicinal Plants for the Survival of Rural People 97; 14 Indigenous Medicinal Plant Use, Sustainabilty and Biodiversity: Learning from the Grameen Bank Experience 107; 15 Indigenous Knowledge of Fish and Fisheries: A Pilot Study 117; 16 Freshwater Fisheries: Indigenous Knowledge and Issues of Sustainability 127; 17 An Indigenously Developed Pond Aquaculture System 131; 18 Indigenous Knowledge and Agricultural Research: Conflicts and Complementarities 139; 19 Cultivating Indigenous Knowledge on Bangladeshi Soil: An Essay in Definition 145; 20 Actors and Rural Livelihoods: Integrating Interdisciplinary Research and Local Knowledge 161; 21 Databases, Indigenous Knowledge and Interdisciplinary Research 179; 22 Indigenous Knowledge Fieldwork: Interaction with Natural Resource Scientists 197; 23 When a Bangladeshi 'Native' is not a Bangladeshi 'Native' 203; 24 The Bangladesh Resource Centre for Indigenous Knowledge and Its Network 213; References 219; Index 239
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Paul Sillitoe is professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham, UK.
