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1. Development and Local Knowledge

   Edited by Alan Bicker, Johan Pottier, Paul Stillitoe

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   There is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people.Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges that...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Indigenous Knowledge and Ethics

   A Darrell Posey Reader

   By Darrell A. Posey

   Edited by Kristiana Plenderleith

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   Darrell A. Posey, who died in 2001, was internationally known for his support of indigenous peoples and their natural habitats, and particularly for his pioneering work with the Kayapó people of Brazil. He was an organiser of the First International Congress of Ethnobiology which resulted in the...

   Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge
3. Nage Birds

   Classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people

   By Gregory Forth

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   This unusual and richly-illustrated book is the story of the relationship between the Nage people of eastern Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. Based on fieldwork carried out over a period of some fifteen years, it aims for a total view of how a human community interacts...

   Published September 10th 2003 by Routledge
4. Managing Animals in New Guinea

   Preying the Game in the Highlands

   By Paul Sillitoe

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   Managing Animals in New Guinea analyzes the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders. Looking at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs, it asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and...

   Published May 14th 2003 by Routledge
5. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture

   By Darrell A. Posey

   Edited by Kristina Plenderleith

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   Darrell A Posey died in March 2001 after a long and distinguished career in anthropology and ecology. Kayapó Ethnoecology and Culture presents a selection of his writings that result from 25 years of work with the Kayapó Indians of the Amazon Basin. These writings describe the...

   Published April 17th 2002 by Routledge
6. Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

   Critical Anthropological Perspectives

   Edited by Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional...

   Published August 7th 2000 by Routledge
7. People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East

   Environments and Landscapes in the Bilad ash-Sham

   By Fidelity Lancaster

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   The result of twenty-five years of research with different tribal groups in the Arabian peninsula, this study focuses on ethnographic descriptions of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, with comparative material from others. Having become aware of the depth in time of Arab...

   Published June 10th 1999 by Routledge
8. Transforming the Indonesian Uplands

   By Tania Li

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource...

   Published April 22nd 1999 by Routledge
9. Protecting the Arctic

   Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival

   By Mark Nuttall

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   Protecting the Arctic explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, and investigates the involvement of indigenous peoples in international environmental policy- making. Nuttall illustrates how...

   Published November 18th 1998 by Routledge