Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America / edited by David M. Gordon and Shepard Krech III.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Indigenous knowledge has become a catchphrase in global struggles for environmental justice. Yet indigenous knowledges are often viewed, incorrectly, as pure and primordial cultural artifacts. This collection draws from African and North American cases to argue that the forms of knowledge identified as "indigenous" resulted from strategies to control environmental resources during and after colonial encounters. At times indigenous knowledges represented a "middle ground" of intellectual exchanges between colonizers and colonized; elsewhere, indigenous knowledges were defined through conflic.

English.

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