Indigenous knowledge, ecology, and evolutionary biology

Pierotti, Raymond John. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780415879248
ISBN: 0415879248
ISBN: 9780203847114 (ebk.)
ISBN: 0203847113 (ebk.)
Physical Description: print
xv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2011 [i.e. 2010], ©2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge -- 2. All Things Are Connected: Communities as Both Ecological and Social Entities in Indigenous American Thought -- 3. Predators Not Prey: "Wolves of Creation" Rather Than "Lambs of God" -- 4. Metaphors and Models: Indigenous Knowledge and Evolutionary Ecology -- 5. Cultural and Biological Creation and the Concept of Relatedness -- 6. Applying Principles of TEK Within the Western Scientific Tradition -- 7. Connected to the Land: Nature and Spirit in Native American Novels -- 8. Ecological Indians: European Imaginations and Indigenous Reality -- 9. Critical Comment on Both Western Science and Indigenous Responses to the Western Scientific Tradition -- 10. Who Speaks for the Buffalo? Finding the Indigenous in Academia -- 11. Traditional Ecological Knowledge: The Third Alternative.