Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ethnobiology and ethnoecology in the context of national laws and international agreements affecting indigenous and local knowledge, traditional resources and intellectual property rights / Darrell Addison Posey -- 'We wander in our ancestors' yard': sea cucumber gathering in Aru, eastern Indonesia / Manon Osseweijer -- The construction and destruction of 'indigenous' knowledge in India's Joint Forest Management programme / Nandini Sundar -- Claims to knowledge, claims to control : environmental conflict in the Great Himalayan National Park, India / Amita Baviskar -- Locating indigenous environmental knowledge in Indonesia / Tania Murray Li -- 'Indigenous' regionalism in Japan / John Knight -- The use of fire in northeastern Luzon (Philippines) : conflicting views of local people, scientists and government officials / Andres Masipiqueña, Gerard A. Persoon, and Denyse J. Snelder -- The life-cycle of indigenous knowledge, and the case of natural rubber production / Michael R. Dove -- Enclaved knowledge : indigent and indignant representations of environmental management and development among the Kalasha of Pakistan / Peter Parkes -- Endangered forest, endangered people : environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge / J. Peter Brosius -- Indigenous knowledge : prospects and limitations / Arne Kalland.

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