Research Catalog

Title

The Cultural dimension of development : indigenous knowledge systems / edited by D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer, David Brokensha ; technical editor, Wim H.J.C. Dechering.

Publication

London : Intermediate Technology Publications, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Warren, Dennis M
• Slikkerveer, L. J. (Leendert Jan)
• Brokensha, David
• Dechering, Wim H. J. C

Series Statement

IT studies in indigenous knowledge and development

Uniform Title

IT studies in indigenous knowledge and development

Subject

• Ethnozoology
• Folk classification
• Rural development
• Applied anthropology
• Indigenous peoples

Genre/Form

• bibliography.
• graph.
• illustration.
• map.
• bibliographie.
• carte géographique.
• graphique.
• bibliografía.
• gráfico.
• ilustración.
• mapa.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-578) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Ethnobotanical knowledge systems : a resource for meeting rural development goals / Janis B. Alcorn -- Taman Obat Keluarga (TOGA) : indigenous Indonesian medicine for self-reliance / L. Jan Slikkerveer and Mady K.L. Slikkerveer -- Neem in Niger : a new context for a system of indigenous knowledge / Edward B. Radcliffe ... [et al.] -- The Lari Soils Project in Peru : a methodology for combining cognitive and behavioural research / David W. Guillet ... [et al.] -- Indigenous soil classification systems in northern Zambia / Carol Kerven, Hilde Dolva and Ragnhild Renna -- Indigenous knowledge systems and agroforestry projects in the central hills of Nepal / Eric P. Rusten and Michael A. Gold -- Indigenous communication and indigenous knowledge / Paul A. Mundy and J. Lin Compton -- Incorporating farmers' knowledge in international rice research / Sam Fujisaka.
• Raised beds and plant disease management / H. David Thurston and Joanne M. Parker -- Indigenous knowledge and famine relief in the Horn of Africa / Peter J.C. Walker -- Indigenous decision-making in agriculture : a reflection of gender and socioeconomic status in the Philippines / Virginia D. Nazarea-Sandoval -- Forest gardens of highland Sri Lanka : an indigenous system for reclaiming deforested land / Yvonne Everett -- Indigenous decision-making systems : a key in understanding structural change in American agriculture / Robert Zabawa and Christina H. Gladwin -- Indigenous taxonomies and decision-making systems of rice farmers in south India / Bhakthavatsalam Rajasekaran and D. Michael Warren -- Expert systems for indigenous knowledge in crop varietal selection / Suresh Chandra Babu, D. Michael Warren and Bhakthavatsalam Rajasekaran -- Como se cura : patterns of medical choice among working class families in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico / Michael B. Whiteford.
• Local traditions and community forestry management : a view from Nepal / Donald A. Messerschmidt -- Indigenous systems of natural resource management among pastoralists of arid and semi-arid Africa / Maryam Niamir -- A socioecological analysis of Balinese water temples / J. Stephen Lansing and James N. Kremer -- Kpelle farming through Kpelle eyes / John Gay -- Use of local knowledge in managing the Niger River Fisheries Project / Thomas L. Price -- Farmers who experiment : an untapped resource for agricultural research and development / Robert Rhoades and Anthony Bebbington -- Phytopractices : indigenous horticultural approaches to plant cultivation and improvement in tropical regions / Yildiz Aumeeruddy -- Farmer know-how and communication for technology transfer : CTTA in Niger / Constance M. McCorkle and Gail McClure.
• A trans-local adaptation of indigenous knowledge in duck farming in Indonesia / Patricia J. Vondal -- Tinker, tiller, technical change : peoples' technology and innovation off the farm / Matthew Gamser and Helen Appleton -- Using indigenous knowledge systems in the design of on-farn experiments : a Philippine case / Clive Lightfoot -- Taking farmers' knowledge and technology seriously : upland rice production in the Philippines / Sam Fujisaka -- Indigenous soil and water conservation in Djenné, Mali / Alison Ayers -- Using indigenous knowledge in a subsistence society of Sudan / Roger W. Sharland -- Kpelle steelmaking : an indigenous high technology in Liberia / Gordon C. Thomasson -- Survival under stress : socioecological perspectives on famers' innovations and risk adjustments / Anil K. Gupta -- Transfer of indigenous knowledge and protection of the agricultural environment in eastern Arica / Kees J. Stigter.
• CIKARD : a global approach to documenting indigenous knowledge for development / D. Michael Warren and Gerard McKiernan -- LEAD : the Leiden Ethnosystems and Development Programme / L. Jan Slikkerveer and Wim H.J.C. Dechering -- CIRAN : networking for indigenous knowledge / Guus W. von Liebenstein, L. Jan Slikkerveer and D. Michael Warren -- IUCN and indigenous peoples : how to promote sustainable development / Jeffrey A. McNeely -- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and rapid rural appraisal for indigenous sustainable agriculture / Jennifer McCracken -- Agricultural development with a focus on local resources : ILEIA's view on indigenous knowledge / Bertus Haverkort -- The Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES) : fostering rural development based on indigenous knowledge / Miguel A. Altieri and Andres Yurjevic -- Traditional ecological knowledge and UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme / Malcolm Hadley and Kathrin Schreckenberg.
• Sustainable development and indigenous knowledge systems in Nigeria : the role of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER) / Adedotun O. Phillips and s. Oguntunji Titilola -- The Regional Program for the Promotion of Indigenous Knowledge in Asia (REPPIKA) / Juan M. Flavier, Antonio de Jesus and Conrado S. Navarro -- Ethnoveterinary medicine and development : a review of the literature / Evelyn Mathias-Mundy and Constance M. McCorkle -- Indigenous knowledge as reflected in agriculture and rural development / S. Oguntunji Titilola and David Marsden -- From ecology through economics to ethnoscience : changing perceptions on natural resource management / Olivia N. Muchena and Eric Vanek -- INDAKS : a bibliography and database on indigenous agricultural knowledge systems and sustainable development in the tropics / L. Jan Slikkerveer.

ISBN

• 1853392642 (cased)
• 1853392510 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^95056568^

OCLC

• 59818080
• SCSB-10090326

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library