Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives (Studies in Environmental Anthropology)

364 Pages·2000·2.98 MB·English

by  Roy Ellen

Indigenous Environmental
Knowledge and its Transformations
Studies in Environmental Anthropology
edited by Roy Ellen, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
This series is a vehicle for publishing up-to-date monographs on
particular issues in particular places which are sensitive to both
socio-cultural and ecological factors. Emphasis will be placed on the
perception of the environment, indigenous knowledge and the
ethnography of environmental issues. While basically
anthropological, the series will consider works from authors
working in adjacent fields.
Volume 1
A Place Against Time
Land and Environment in Papua New Guinea
Paul Sillitoe
Volume 2
People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East
Environments and Landscapes in the Bilâd ash-Shâm
William Lancaster and Fidelity Lancaster
Volume 3
Protecting the Arctic
Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival
Mark Nuttall
Volume 4
Transforming the Indonesian Uplands
Marginality, Power and Production
edited by Tania Murray Li
Volume 5
Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and its Transformations
Critical Anthropological Perspectives
edited by Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes and Alan Bicker
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Indigenous
Environmental
Knowledge
and its Transformations
Critical Anthropological
Perspectives
Edited by
Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, Alan Bicker
University of Kent at Canterbury
UK
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Cover: Kantu’ smallholder tapping one of his rubber trees
CONTENTS
List of Maps, Plates and Tables vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Preface x
Introduction 1
Roy Ellen and Holly Harris
Chapter 1 Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology in the Context 32
of National Laws and International
Agreements Affecting Indigenous and Local
Knowledge, Traditional Resources and
Intellectual Property Rights
Darrell Addison Posey
Chapter 2 ‘We Wander in our Ancestors’ Yard’: Sea 56
Cucumber Gathering in Aru, Eastern
Indonesia
Manon Osseweijer
Chapter 3 The Construction and Destruction of 79
‘Indigenous’ Knowledge in India’s Joint Forest
Management Programme
Nandini Sundar
Chapter 4 Claims to Knowledge, Claims to Control: 101
Environmental Conflict in the Great
Himalayan National Park, India
Amita Baviskar
Chapter 5 Locating Indigenous Environmental 120
Knowledge in Indonesia
Tania Murray Li
Chapter 6 ‘Indigenous’ Regionalism in Japan 148
John Knight
Chapter 7 The Use of Fire in Northeastern Luzon 174
(Philippines): Conflicting Views of Local
People, Scientists and Government Officials
vi
Andres Masipiqueña, Gerard A.Persoon and
Denyse J.Snelder
Chapter 8 The Life-Cycle of Indigenous Knowledge, and 209
the Case of Natural Rubber Production
Michael R.Dove
Chapter 9 Enclaved Knowledge: Indigent and Indignant 249
Representations of Environmental
Management and Development among the
Kalasha of Pakistan
Peter Parkes
Chapter 10 Endangered Forest, Endangered People: 290
Environmentalist Representations of
Indigenous Knowledge
J.Peter Brosius
Chapter 11 Indigenous Knowledge: Prospects and 316
Limitations
Arne Kalland
Index 332
LIST OF MAPS, PLATES AND TABLES
MAPS
Map 2.1 The Aru archipelago 58
Map 2.2 Southeast Aru and the Aru Tenggara Marine Reserve 59
Map 7.1 Topographic map of Northeastern Luzon 178
Map 9.1 The Kalasha valleys in Chitral, Northwest Pakistan 253
PLATES
Plate 2.1 Aruese woman cleaning boiled trepang and removing 61
its ossicles
Plate 7.1 The use of fire in the Cagayan valley 204
Plate 8.1 Kantu’ smallholder tapping one of his rubber trees 219
Plate 9.1 Ritual appointment of the roi constabulary during 261
the spring Joshi festival in Rumbur valley, April
1989
TABLES
Table 2.1 Locations and trepang species found, according to 67
women in Beltubur
Table 2.2 Trepang species distinguished by Aruese collectors 68
and Indonesian-Chinese shopkeepers
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
Amita Baviskar is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of
Delhi, India.
Alan Bicker is a Research fellow in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
J.Peter Brosius is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Georgia, USA.
Michael R.Dove is Professor of Social Ecology at the School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University,
Connecticut, USA.
Roy Ellen is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Holly Harris is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
Arne Kalland is Professor of Anthropology at the Institute and
Museum of Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway.
John Knight is a Research Fellow at the International Institute
for Asian Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Andres B.Masipiqueña is Dean of the College of Forestry and
Environmental Management, and Professor in Forest
Administration at Isabela State University, The Philippines.
Tania Murray Li is Associate Professor in the Department of
Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Canada.
Manon Osseweijer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Programme for
Environment and Development at the Centre of Environmental
Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Peter Parkes is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the
University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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Gerard A.Persoon is Director of the Programme for Environment
and Development at the Centre of Environmental Science, Leiden
University, The Netherlands.
Darrell Addison Posey is Director of the Programme for
Traditional Resource Rights at the Oxford Centre for the
Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, University of
Oxford, UK; and Professor, Departmento de Ciências Biológicas,
Universidade Federal do Maranhão, Centro-São Luíz, Maranhão,
Brazil.
Denyse J.Snelder is Assistant Professor at the Centre of
Environmental Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Nandini Sundar is a Reader in Sociology at the Institute of
Economic Growth, Delhi, India.