ethnoScience and TEKnology: A student

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ethnoScience and TEKnology A students
perspective on STS and the anthropology of
indigenous knowledge
Adam Henne, ahenne_at_uga.edu Department of
Anthropology University of Georgia
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• STS on indigenous knowledge
• Turnbull, D. 2000. Masons, Tricksters and
  Cartographers Comparative Studies in the
  Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge.
  Amsterdam Harwood Academic Publishers.
• Watson-Verran, H. and D. Turnbull. 2001. Science
  and other indigenous knowledge systems, in
  Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, S.
  Jasanoff et al, eds. London Sage.
• Eglash, Ron and etc.

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• multiplying terminologies
• Indigenous knowledge
• IK
• Traditional ecological knowledge
• TEK
• Indigenous ecological knowledge
• Local knowledge
• LEK
• TEKW

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• Ethnobiology
• Schultes, Richard Evans. 1995. Ethnobotany The
  Evolution of a Discipline.
• Davis, Wade. 1997. One River Explorations and
  Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest.
• Plotkin, Mark. 1993. Tales of a shaman's
  apprentice an ethnobotanist searches for new
  medicines in the Amazon rain forest.
• Berlin, B., D. Breedlove, and P. Raven. 1966.
  Folk taxonomies and biological classification.
  Science 154.
• Berlin, B. 1992. Principles of ethnobotanical
  classification. XX.
• Conklin, H. 1969. An ethnoecological approach to
  shifting agriculture. In Environment and
  Cultural Behavior, AP Vayda, ed.
• Also see www.ethnobiology.org

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• Indigenous knowledge and rural development
• Chambers, Robert. 1983. Rural Development
  Putting the Last First.
• Toledo, V. 1992. What is ethnoecology? Origins,
  scope, and implications of a rising discipline.
  Etnoecologia 1(1).
• NUFFIC http//www.ik-pages.net/

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• Indigenous knowledge in global settings
• Posey, D. 2004. Indigenous knowledge and ethics
  A Darrell Posey reader. London Routledge.
• Brush, S. 1993. Indigenous knowledge of
  biological resources and intellectual property
  rights the role of anthropology. Annual Reviews
  of Anthropology 95(3).
• Gadgil, M. 2000. New meanings for old knowledge
  The Peoples Biodiversity Register Program.
  Ecological Applications 10(5).
• TEKPAD http//ip.aaas.org/tekindex.nsf

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• Critiques of indigenous knowledge
• Richards, P. 1993. Cultivation Knowledge or
  performance? in Anthropological Critique of
  Development, M Hobart, ed. London Routledge
• Agrawal, A. 1995. Dismantling the divide between
  indigenous and scientific knowledge. Development
  and Change 26.
• Ellen, R., P. Parkes, and A. Bicker. 2000.
  Indigenous ecological knowledge and its
  transformations. Amsterdam Harwood Academic.
• Nadasdy, P. The politics of TEK. Arctic
  Anthropology 36(1-2).
• Nygren, A. 1999. Local knowledge in the
  environment-development discourse. Critiques of
  Anthropology 19(3).
• Brosius, J.P. 1997. Endangered forests,
  endangered people Environmentalist
  representations of indigenous knowledge. Human
  Ecology 25(1).

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What can the anthropology of indigenous knowledge
get out of STS?

• Western science is not a single entity
• Situating knowledge practices historically and
  politically
• Challenging knowledge systems

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What can STS get out of the anthropology of
indigenous knowledge?

• Data diversity
• Wider sphere of relevance
• research methods

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Three discourses of science and citizenship in
Chile (a shameless self-promotion)
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Chile is Timber Country
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The common heritage of all Chileans
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The timber companies are directly responsible
for the repression of the Mapuche people. The
environmentalists are computer warriors who never
accomplish anything concrete.
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