Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations

Download or read book Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations written by Roy Ellen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resources.