Inventing the Indigenous

Inventing the Indigenous
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 153
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780521870870
ISBN-13 : 0521870879
Rating : 4/5 (879 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Inventing the Indigenous by : Alix Cooper

Download or read book Inventing the Indigenous written by Alix Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on cultural, social, and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against exotic imports -- whether medieval spices like cinnamon or new American arrivals like chocolate and tobacco -- early modern Europeans began to take inventory of their own "indigenous" natural worlds.


Inventing the Indigenous Related Books

Inventing the Indigenous
Language: en
Pages: 153
Authors: Alix Cooper
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-03-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Drawing on cultural, social, and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book shows how, amidst a growing reaction against
Inventing Indigenous Knowledge
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Lynn Swartley
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-24 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume provides a multi-sited and multivocalic investigation of the dynamic social, political and economic processes in the creation and implementation of
Sand Talk
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Tyson Yunkaporta
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-05-12 - Publisher: HarperCollins

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, pow
Red Alert!
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: Daniel R. Wildcat
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-29 - Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'What the world needs today is a good dose of Indigenous realism,'' says Native American scholar..... Daniel Wildcat in this thoughtful, forward-looking treatis
Native Science
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Gregory Cajete
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cajete examines the multiple levels of meaning that inform Native astronomy, cosmology, psychology, agriculture, and the healing arts. Unlike the western scient