Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America /

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Imprint:Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2012.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 335 pages)
Language:English
Series:Ohio University Press Series in Ecology and History
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11149667
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Other authors / contributors:Gordon, David M., 1970- editor.
Krech, Shepard, III, 1944- editor.
ISBN:0821444115
9780821444115
9780821419960
082141996X
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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.
Other form:Print version: Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America. Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, ©2012