Investigating Local Knowledge

New Directions, New Approaches

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• Paul Sillitoe

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• 252 Seiten
• 9 Lesestunden

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Originally published in 2004, this book provides a timely overview of new directions and new approaches to investigating the role of rural communities in generating knowledge founded on their sophisticated understandings of their environments. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Local knowledge theory and methods: an urban model from Indonesia, Christoph Antweiler. 2. Doing and knowing: questions about studies of local knowledge, Andrew P. Vayda, Bradley B. Walters and Indah Setyawati. 3. A decision model for the incorporation of indigenous knowledge into development projects, Paul Sillitoe and Julian Barr. 4. Triangulation with tecnicos: a method for rapid assessment of local knowledge, Jeffery W. Bentley, Eric Boa, Percy Vilca and John Stonehouse. 5. Local history as 'indigenous knowledge': aeroplanes, conservation and development in Haia and Maimafu, Papua New Guinea, David Ellis and Paige West. 6. The INGO, the project and the investigation of 'indigenous knowledge': the case of non-timber forest product (NTFP), Sebastian Taylor. 7. Indigenous views on the terms of participation in the development of biodiversity conservation in Nepal, Ben Campbell. 8. Negotiating change, maintaining continuity: science education and indigenous knowledge in Eastern Canada, Trudy Sable. 9. The re-emergence of traditional medicine and health care in post-colonial India and national identity, Subhadra Mitra Channa. 10. In dialogue with indigenous knowledge: sharing research to promote empowerment of rural communities in India, R. Baumgartner, G.K. Karanth, G.S. Aurora and V. Ramaswamy.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Einband: Paperback