Natural Science and Indigenous Knowledge
Natural Science and Indigenous Knowledge
$64.99
USDHow do we combine the areas of intersection between science and indigenous knowledge, but without losing the totality of both? This book's objective is to consider how Indigenous populations have lived and managed the landscape. Specifically, how their footprint was a result of the combination of their empirical knowledge and their culture. The chapters are divided into four groups: The first deals with reintegrating cultures and natural landscapes and the role of kinship and oral tradition. The second group approaches the landscape as a living university of learning and managing, discussing the ethnobotany of how to grow more responsibly, and assess and project the harvest. The third group deals with the managing of fire in an anthropogenic plant community and how to integrate indigenous agriculture in hydrology and dry regions. The fourth group consists of studies of how science and indigenous knowledge can be taught in schools using land-based studies.
- Considers indigenous populations knowledge and the sciences side-by-side in a nonconfrontational manner
- Talks about kinship, oral tradition, ethnobotany hunting and land management in terms of traditional knowledge and science, and how this is similar or different to contemporary culture and science
- Considers how traditional knowledge can be taught in schools in a respectful manner
Product details
April 2024Adobe eBook Reader
9781009416641
0 pages
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: What Do Indigenous People Have to Tell Us about the Cultural Landscapes They Have Created E. A. Johnson and S. M. Arlidge
- 2. Reintegrating Cultural and Natural Landscapes: Gunaaxoo Kwáan Tlingit Homelands of the Alsek-Dry Bay Region, Alaska Thomas F. Thornton and Douglas Deur
- 3. 'My Uncle Was Resting His Country' – Dene Kinship and Insights into the More Distant Past John W. Ives
- 4. Native American Science in a Living Universe: A Paiute Perspective Richard W. Stoffle, Richard Arnold and Kathleen Van Vlack
- 5. To Get More Harvest: Natural Systems, Cultural Values, and Indigenous Resource Management in Northwestern North America Nancy Turner and Douglas Deur
- 6. Hunting and Trapping in the Americas: The Assessment and Projection of Harvest on Wildlife Populations Taal Levi, Carlos A. Peres and Glenn H. Shepard
- 7. On Fire and Water: The Intersection of Wetlands and Burning Strategies in Managing the Anthropogenic Plant Communities Douglas Deur and Rochelle Bloom
- 8. Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Public Education Both for Indigenous and Non-indigenous Populations: Natural Science, Social Science and Humanities S. M. Arlidge.
