Bücher der Reihe Studies in Environmental Anthropology

Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, this text addresses the changing histories and identities of Indonesian upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state.

This volume presents 17 of Posey's articles on the topics of environment, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights, and demonstrates his belief in the validity of indigenous knowledge systems and his insistence that indigenous rights must be recognized and protected.

This work is the first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The problems of translation and mistranslation in local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resource management.

Nuttall explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, investigating their involvement in international environmental policy-making.

This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o.

?Development and Local Knowledge? focuses on two major challenges that arise in the discussion of indigenous knowledge - its proper definition and the methodologies appropriate to the exploitation of local knowledge. These concerns are addressed in a range of ethnographic contexts.

Analysing the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders, this title looks at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs. It asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.

The story of the relationship between the Nage people of central Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. This volume offers a critique of theoretical argument on how non-western societies categorize and evaluate different species and modes of being.

This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.