Local Science Vs Global Science: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 4)

Sillitoe, Paul

ISBN 10: 1845456483 / ISBN 13: 9781845456481

Published by Berghahn Books, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Local Science Vs Global Science: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 4)
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845456483
• ISBN 13: 9781845456481
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered “primitive” and in need of change, but this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others’ knowledge in development, to argue that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific or wherever, but also the global community. The issues are large and the challenges are exciting, as addressed in this book, in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts.

About the Author

Paul Sillitoe is Professor of Anthropology, Durham University. His research interests focus on natural resources management, appropriate technology, and development. He specialises in social and environmental change, sustainable livelihoods, human ecology and ethno-science. He has long-standing interests in the Pacific, and more recently in South Asia. He seeks to further the incorporation of local knowledge in development, having experience with several international development agencies.