1st Edition

Indigenous Knowledge, Ecology, and Evolutionary Biology

By Raymond Pierotti Copyright 2011
280 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

280 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

528 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and evolutionary philosophy. Pierotti takes a look at the scientific basis of this approach, focusing on... Read more

Introduction  1. Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge  2. All Things Are Connected: Communities as Both Ecological and Social Entities in Indigenous American Thought  3. Predators Not Prey: "Wolves of Creation" Rather Than "Lambs of God"  4. Metaphors and Models: Indigenous Knowledge and Evolutionary Ecology  5. Cultural and Biological Creation and the Concept of Relatedness  6. Applying Principles of TEK within the Western Scientific Tradition  7. Connected to the Land: Nature and Spirit in Native American Novels  8. Ecological Indians: European Imaginations and Indigenous Reality  9. A Critical Comment on Both Western Science and Indigenous Responses to the Western Scientific Tradition  10. Who Speaks for the Buffalo? Finding the Indigenous in Academia 11. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The Third Alternative
 

Biography

Raymond Pierotti is Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Global Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas.