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Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Roy Ellen
Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
Roy Ellen
Explores such issues as the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress, political conflict and economic hazards. This book evaluates how traditional knowledge helps to cope with these kinds of insecurity.
288 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | July 1, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9781845453121 |
Publishers | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 18 mm · 558 g |
Language | English |
Editor | Ellen, Roy |