Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 6)

Roy F. Ellen (ed.), International Congress of Ethnobiology

ISBN 10: 1845453123 / ISBN 13: 9781845453121

Editore: Berghahn Books, 2007

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xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Contents: 1 Introduction / Roy Ellen 2 Responses to medium-term stability in climate : El Nino, droughts and coping mechanisms of foragers and farmers in Borneo / Rajindra K. Puri 3 Kasepuhan rice landraced diversity, risk management and agricultural modernization / Run Soemarwoto 4 Responses to environmental stress in the Baduy Swidden system, South Banten, Java / Johan Iskandar 5 Innovation, 'hybrid' knowledge and the conservation of relict rainforest in upland Banten / Johan Iskandar and Ray Ellen 6 A comparison of traditional and innovative subsistence strategics on Buano during periods of socio-environmental stress, 1980-2003 / Hermien L. Soselita 7 A tradition of change in Minahasan agricultural strategies, North Sulawesi / Simon Platten 8 Cycles of politics and cycles of nature : permanent xrisis in the uplands of Palawan / Dario Novellino 9 The tobe and tara bandit : a post-independent renaissance of historic forest regulation authorities and practices in Oecusse, East Timor / Laura S. Metzner Yoder 10 Perceptions of local knowledge and adaptation on Mount Merapi, Central Java / Michael R. Dove.

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Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies: Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia (Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology, 6)
• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1845453123
• ISBN 13: 9781845453121
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Development Studies
  • Southeast Asia
  • Anthropology

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Riassunto

The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues explored in this book are the creation, erosion and transmission of ecological knowledge, and hybridization between traditional and scientifically-based knowledge, amongst populations facing environmental stress (e.g. 1997 El Niño), political conflict and economic hazards. The book will also evaluate positive examples of how traditional knowledge has enabled local populations to cope with these kinds of insecurity.

Informazioni sugli autori

Roy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and most recently, The Categorical Impulse (Berghahn Books, 2005). He convenes the Kent Programme in Ethnobotany and has published widely on indigenous knowledge. In 2003 he was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy.

Roy Ellen was educated at the London School of Economics and is Professor of Anthropology and Human Ecology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, where he has taught since 1973. His numerous and varied publications include Environment, Subsistence and System (Cambridge University Press, 1982), The Cultural Relations of Classification (Cambridge University Press, 1993), and most recently, The Categorical Impulse (Berghahn Books, 2005). He convenes the Kent Programme in Ethnobotany and has published widely on indigenous knowledge. In 2003 he was elected to a fellowship of the British Academy.