Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom

Indigenous science is often dismissed as quackery or nonsense, out of touch with progress and current events. However, Indigenous peoples have passed down vital information for generations, from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts

Author: J. Hendry
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/18/2014
Pages: 199
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781137435910

About the Author
Joy Hendry is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She specializes in the study of Japan, but has also done fieldwork in Morocco, Canada and Mexico, and has made recent visits to China, Indonesia, Nepal and Uzbekistan. She is the author of many books including Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation and Power in Japan and Other Societies and Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous Peoples and Self-Representation, which was picked by Choice magazine as one of their 'outstanding academic titles' in 2006.