new approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation and agriculture /
edited by Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier.
New York :
Routledge,
2004.
1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Studies in environmental anthropology ;
v. 9
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Hunting for theory, gathering ideology; Powerful knowledge: Applications in a cultural context; Management of knowledge and social transformation: A case study from Guatemala; Indigenous knowledge confronts development among the Duna of Papua New Guinea; The knowledge of indigenous desire. Disintegrating conservation and development in Papua New Guinea; Close encounters of the Third World kind: Indigenous knowledge and relations to land.
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This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.