{"product_id":"indigenous-knowledge-and-the-environment-david-m-gordon-9780821420799","title":"Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David M. Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821420798\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821420799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"David M. Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926523347199,"sku":"9780821420799","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7cc9ef01-2653-407c-87ec-167bf7393178.jpg?v=1681083537","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/indigenous-knowledge-and-the-environment-david-m-gordon-9780821420799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}