new approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation and agriculture /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Routledge,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2004.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) :
Other Physical Details
illustrations, maps
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in environmental anthropology ;
Volume Designation
v. 9
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.