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Indigenous knowledge and the environment in Africa and North America

Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment. The result is a book that informs and complicates how indigenous knowledges can and should relate to environmental policy-making."—pub. desc.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 335 pages

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