Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom by Hendry, J.

Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137435903)

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Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom by Hendry, J.

Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom

$109.99
Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom by Hendry, J.

Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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Indigenous science is often dismissed as quackery or nonsense, out of touch with progress and current events. However, Indigenous peoples have passed down vital information for generations, from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of likely earthquakes. These scientific practices that have been developed by Indigenous peoples around the world have been largely ignored by Western colonizers in their lands. From Japan and New Zealand to Australia and Canada, Indigenous science involves environmentally-focused, sustainable practices that allow people to live with the land rather than in spite of it. Here, Hendry examines science through these Indigenous roots, problematizing the idea that Western science is the only type that deserves that name and drawing attention to some of its shortcomings. She takes the reader with her on the learning process and shares a myriad of sustainable examples that can be put into practice.

Author: J. Hendry
ISBN-10: 1137435909
ISBN-13: 9781137435903
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2014
Pages: 199
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
By J. Hendry
By J. Hendry
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Joy Hendry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She specializes in the study of Japan, but has also done fieldwork in Morocco, Canada and Mexico, and has made recent visits to China, Indonesia, Nepal and Uzbekistan. She is the author of many books including Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies and Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous Peoples and Self-Representation, which was picked by Choice magazine as one of their 'outstanding academic titles' in 2006.

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