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Indigenous knowledge : and the environment in Africa and North America
- Title
- Indigenous knowledge : and the environment in Africa and North America / edited by David Gordon and Shepard Krech III.
- Publication
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.
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- Description
- vi, 335 p. : maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
- Uniform Title
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Indigenous knowledge and the environment / David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech III -- Looking like a white man : geopolitical strategies of the Iowa Indians during American incorporation / David Bernstein -- On biomedicine, transfers of knowledge and malaria treatments in Eastern North America and tropical Africa / James L.A. Webb -- Indigenous ethnoornithoology in the American South / Shepard Krech III -- Nation-building knowledge : Dutch indigenous knowledge and the invention of white South Africanism, 1890-1909 / Lance van Sittert -- Locust invations and tensions over environmental and bodily health in the colonial Transkei / Jacob Tropp -- Navajos, New Dealers and the metaphysics of nature / Marsha Weisiger -- Cherokee medicine and the 1824 smallpox epidemic / Paul Kelton -- Spirt of the salmon : native religion, rights, and resource use in the Columbia River Basin / Andrew H. Fisher -- Indigenous spirits : ancestral power in a south-central African kingdom / David M. Gordon -- Recruiting nature ; snakes, serpents, and social movements in East Africa and North America / Parker Shipton -- Marine tenure of the Makahs / Joshua Reid -- Reinventing "traditional" medicine in Postapartheid South Africa / Karen Flint -- Dilemmas of "indigenous tenure" in South Africa : traditional authorities and the constitutional challenge to the 2004 Communal Land Rights Act / Derick Fay.
- Call Number
- Sc E 12-768
- ISBN
- 9780821419960 (hc : alk. paper)
- 082141996X (hc : alk. paper)
- 9780821444115 (electronic)
- 0821444115 (electronic)
- LCCN
- 2011040641
- OCLC
- 756377556
- Title
- Indigenous knowledge : and the environment in Africa and North America / edited by David Gordon and Shepard Krech III.
- Imprint
- Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012.
- Series
- Ohio University Press series in ecology and historyOhio University Press series in ecology and history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Gordon, David M., 1970-Krech, Shepard, 1944-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 12-768