Sacred Ecology

by Berkes, Fikret

Edition: 2nd

ISBN13: 9780415958271

ISBN10: 041595827X

Format: Hardcover

Pub. Date: 2008-02-29

Publisher(s): Routledge

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Summary

Sacred Ecologyexamines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world, and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing. Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology, and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves. This second edition is expanded and updated throughout, and places greater emphasis on "knowledge as process". It has two new chapters, Chapter 8 on climate change, demonstrating how indigenous communities "read" environmental signals, and Chapter 9 on how indigenous knowledge deals with complexity.

Author Biography

Fikret Berkes is Distinguished Professor and Canada Research Chair at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada.

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xix
Context of Traditional Ecological Knowledge	p. 1
Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge	p. 3
Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Science	p. 10
Differences: Philosophical or Political?	p. 12
Knowledge-Practice-Belief: A Framework for Analysis	p. 16
Objectives and Overview of the Volume	p. 19
Emergence of the Field	p. 21
Evolution and Differentiation of the Literature	p. 22
Growth of Ecosystem-based Knowledge	p. 27
Cultural and Political Significance for Indigenous Peoples	p. 31
Questions of Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights	p. 35
Practical Significance as Common Heritage of Humankind	p. 37
Intellectual Roots of Traditional Ecological Knowledge	p. 49
Ethnobiology and Biosystematics: A Good Fit	p. 50
More on Linguistics and Methodology: How to Get the Information Right	p. 53
Exaggeration and Ethnoscience: The Eskimo Snow Hoax?	p. 59
Human Ecology and Territoriality	p. 61
Integration of Social Systems and Natural Systems: Importance of Worldviews	p. 66
Traditional Knowledge Systems in Practice	p. 71
Tropical Forests: Not Amenable to Management?	p. 73
Semi-arid Areas: Keeping the Land Productive	p. 78
Traditional Uses of Fire	p. 81
Island Ecosystems-Personal Ecosystems	p. 86
Coastal Lagoons and Wetlands	p. 90
Conclusions	p. 94
Cree Worldview "From the Inside"	p. 97
Animals Control the Hunt	p. 99
Obligations of Hunters to Show Respect	p. 103
Importance of Continued Use for Sustainability	p. 109
Conclusions	p. 112
A Story of Caribou and Social Learning	p. 117
"No One Knows the Way of the Winds and the Caribou"	p. 119
Cree Knowledge of Caribou in Context	p. 122
Caribou Return to the Land of the Chisasibi Cree	p. 127
A Gathering of the Hunters	p. 130
Lessons for the Development of a Conservation Ethic	p. 133
Lessons for the Questions of Monitoring	p. 135
Cree Fishing Practices as Adaptive Management	p. 139
The Chisasibi Cree System of Fishing	p. 141
Subarctic Ecosystems: Scientific Understanding and Cree Practice	p. 146
Three Cree Practices: Reading Environmental Signals for Management	p. 148
A Computer Experiment on Cree Practice and Fish Population Resilience	p. 151
Traditional Knowledge Systems as Adaptive Management	p. 154
Lessons from Fisher Knowledge	p. 157
Climate Change and Indigenous Ways of Knowing	p. 161
Indigenous Ways of Knowing and New Models of Community-based Research	p. 163
Inuit Observations of Climate Change Project	p. 166
A Convergence of Findings	p. 172
Significance of Local Observations and Place-based Research	p. 175
Indigenous Knowledge and Adaptation	p. 176
Conclusions	p. 179
Complex Systems, Holism, and Fuzzy Logic	p. 181
Rules-of-thumb: Cutting Complexity Down to Size	p. 182
Community-based Monitoring and Environmental Change	p. 185
Complex Systems Thinking	p. 189
Local Knowledge and Expert Systems	p. 193
A Fuzzy Logic Analysis of Indigenous Knowledge	p. 197
Conclusions	p. 200
How Local Knowledge Develops: Cases from the West Indies	p. 203
A Framework for Development of Local and Traditional Knowledge	p. 204
Mangrove Conservation and Charcoal Makers	p. 208
Dominican Sawyers: Developing Private Stewardship	p. 211
Cultivating Sea Moss in St. Lucia	p. 213
Rehabilitating Edible Sea Urchin Resources	p. 216
Lessons from the Caribbean Cases	p. 218
Conclusions	p. 220
Challenges to Indigenous Knowledge	p. 225
Limitations of Indigenous Knowledge and the Exotic Other	p. 227
Invaders and Natives: A Historical Perspective	p. 228
Indigenous Peoples as Conservationists?	p. 232
"Wilderness" and a Universal Concept of Conservation	p. 235
Adapting Traditional Systems to the Modern Context	p. 239
Traditional Systems for Building Livelihoods in a Globalized Economy	p. 241
Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Traditional Knowledge	p. 246
Toward a Unity of Mind and Nature	p. 251
Political Ecology of Indigenous Knowledge	p. 254
Indigenous Knowledge and Empowerment	p. 258
Indigenous Knowledge as Challenge to the Positivist-Reductionist Paradigm	p. 264
Making Scientific Sense of Indigenous Knowledge	p. 267
Learning from Traditional Knowledge	p. 271
References	p. 277
Index	p. 305
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