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Indigenous knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology [electronic resource] / Raymond Pierotti.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Indigenous peoples and politicsPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2011.Description: xv, 264 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203847114
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  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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