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1. Development and Local Knowledge

   Edited by Alan Bicker, Johan Pottier, Paul Stillitoe

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   There is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people.Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges that...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Participating in Development

   Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge

   Edited by Alan Bicker, Johan Pottier, Paul Sillitoe

   Series: ASA Monographs

   This thought- provoking and challenging collection focuses on how anthropologists can define and use indigenous knowledge without compromising anthropological expectations....

   Published July 3rd 2002 by Routledge
3. Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

   Critical Anthropological Perspectives

   Edited by Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes

   Series: Studies in Environmental Anthropology

   The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional...

   Published August 7th 2000 by Routledge