Biocultural diversity and indigenous ways of knowing; human ecology in the Arctic. (foldout map included).

9781552382530

Biocultural diversity and indigenous ways of knowing; human ecology in the Arctic. (foldout map included)

Kassam, Karim-Aly S.

Univ. of Calgary Press

2009

270 pages

$34.95

Paperback

Northern lights series; no.12

GF891

Kassam (environmental and indigenous studies, Cornell U.) reconceptualizes the idea of human ecology on the basis of relations between biological and cultural diversity, pointing to the indigenous communities of the Arctic and sub-Arctic North as illustration of his point. He also stresses that any study of human ecology presupposes context-dependence and provides case studies of context-dependent exploration of human ecology in the cases of an Arctic Inuit community in the Northwest Territories of Canada and the Inupiat community of Wainwright, Alaska, that demonstrate the theoretical and practical implications of human ecological research in terms of the key elements of biocultural diversity, ways of knowing, and community participation. Distributed in the US by Michigan State U. Press.

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