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Title Development and local knowledge : new approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation and agriculture / edited by Alan Bicker, Paul Sillitoe and Johan Pottier.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 222 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 9
Studies in environmental anthropology ; v. 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Ethnoscience -- Developing countries.
Ethnoscience.
Developing countries.
Ethnoecology -- Developing countries.
Ethnoecology.
Technical assistance -- Anthropological aspects -- Developing countries.
Technical assistance -- Anthropological aspects.
Community development -- Developing countries.
Community development.
Applied anthropology -- Developing countries.
Applied anthropology.
Natural resources management areas -- Developing countries.
Natural resources management areas.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Bicker, Alan.
Sillitoe, Paul, 1949-
Pottier, Johan.
Other Form: Print version: Development and local knowledge. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415318262 (DLC) 2003046680 (OCoLC)52127814
ISBN 0203606442 (electronic book)
9780203606445 (electronic book)
0415318262