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| Other authors / contributors: | Gordon, David M., 1970- editor.
Krech, Shepard, III, 1944- editor.
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| ISBN: | 0821444115
9780821444115
9780821419960
082141996X
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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| Summary: | Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous" resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflic.
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| Other form: | Print version: Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2012
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