{"product_id":"indigenous-knowledge-and-the-environment-in-africa-and-north-america-paperback","title":"Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid M. Gordon\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndigenous 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt times indigenous knowledges represented a \"middle ground\" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflict and struggle. The authors demonstrate how people claimed that their hybrid forms of knowledge were communal, religious, and traditional, as opposed to individualist, secular, and scientific, which they associated with European colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndigenous Knowledge and the Environment\u003c\/i\u003e offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and should relate to environmental policy-making.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003e David Bernstein, Derick Fay, Andrew H. Fisher, Karen Flint, David M. Gordon, Paul Kelton, Shepard Krech III, Joshua Reid, Parker Shipton, Lance van Sittert, Jacob Tropp, James L. A. Webb, Jr., Marsha Weisiger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid M. Gordon\u003c\/i\u003e is an associate professor of history at Bowdoin College. He is author of \u003ci\u003eNachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa\u003c\/i\u003e and numerous articles on African social, cultural, and environmental history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShepard Krech III\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor emeritus of anthropology at Brown University and a research associate in the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. A trustee of the National Humanities Center, he is the author or editor of many essays and books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Ecological Indian and The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, \u003c\/i\u003e edited with John McNeill and Carolyn Merchant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 344\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53329662148915,"sku":"9780821420799","price":73.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TynYyfxLGs9780821420799.webp?v=1778171708","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/indigenous-knowledge-and-the-environment-in-africa-and-north-america-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}