Books in the Studies in Environmental Anthropology series

The result of 25 years of research with different tribal groups in the Arabian peninsula, this study focuses on ethnographic description of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, with comparative material from others.

This volume presents 17 of Posey's articles on the topics of environment, indigenous knowledge and intellectual property rights, and demonstrates his belief in the validity of indigenous knowledge systems and his insistence that indigenous rights must be recognized and protected.

This work is the first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The problems of translation and mistranslation in local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resource management.

Nuttall explores some of the ways in which indigenous peoples have taken political action regarding Arctic environmental and sustainable development issues, investigating their involvement in international environmental policy-making.

This provocative selection of the late Darrell A Posey's work concentrates on the dispersal and threatened extinction of the famous Brazilian indigenous people, the Kayap'o.

This volume provides a critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. It focuses on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localized contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures.

?Development and Local Knowledge? focuses on two major challenges that arise in the discussion of indigenous knowledge - its proper definition and the methodologies appropriate to the exploitation of local knowledge. These concerns are addressed in a range of ethnographic contexts.

Analysing the place of animals in the lives of New Guinea Highlanders, this title looks at issues of zoological classification, hunting of wild animals and management of domesticated ones, notably pigs. It asks how natural parameters affect people's livelihood strategies and their relations with animals and the wider environment.

The story of the relationship between the Nage people of central Indonesia and the birds alongside which they co-exist. This volume offers a critique of theoretical argument on how non-western societies categorize and evaluate different species and modes of being.

This is an ethnographically-focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural tradition continues.

This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.

A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world''s first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedology being a little researched topic to date.