Concepts of indigenous environmental knowledge
in scientific and development studies literature:
A critical assessment

Contents

  Introduction 1
  Indigenousness as applied to knowledge: a provisional model 3
  Indigenous knowledge at home in the West 7
  Impact of Asian folk knowledge on the development of
Western scientific traditions		 10
  The rediscovery and reinvention of indigenous knowledge 16
  Recording indigenous knowledge 20
  Indigenous knowledge from within the context of non-Western
traditions		 27
  The end of indigenous knowledge? 30