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LIVING ON THE LAND
INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S UNDERSTANDING OF PLACE |
| By: |
Nathalie Kermoal (Editor), Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£22.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1771990414 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781771990417 |
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| Publisher: |
AU PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 July, 2016 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
An interdisciplinary volume that explores Indigenous women's environmental knowledge and how that knowledge is often marginalized by ethnocentric research paradigms and legal processes that focus on male economic interactions with the environment. |
| Synopsis: |
An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways ofknowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for themost part been conducted by scholars operating within Westernepistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivityof knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result,the information gathered predominantly reflects the types of knowledgetraditionally held by men, yielding a perspective that is at oncegendered and incomplete. Even those academics, communities, andgovernments interested in consulting with Indigenous peoples for thepurposes of planning, monitoring, and managing land use have largelyignored the knowledge traditionally produced, preserved, andtransmitted by Indigenous women. While this omission reflectspatriarchal assumptions, it may also be the result of the reductionisttendencies of researchers, who have attempted to organize Indigenousknowledge so as to align it with Western scientific categories, and ofpolicy makers, who have sought to deploy such knowledge in the serviceof external priorities. Such efforts to apply Indigenous knowledge havehad the effect of abstracting this knowledge from place as well as fromthe world view and community-and by extension the gender-towhich it is inextricably connected.Living on the Land examines how patriarchy, gender, andcolonialism have shaped the experiences of Indigenous women as bothknowers and producers of knowledge. From a variety of methodologicalperspectives, contributors to the volume explore the nature and scopeof Indigenous women's knowledge, its rootedness in relationshipsboth human and spiritual, and its inseparability from land andlandscape. From the reconstruction of cultural and ecological heritageby Naskapi women in Quebec to the medical expertise of Metis women inwestern Canada to the mapping and securing of land rights in Nicaragua,Living on the Land focuses on the integral role of women asstewards of the land and governors of the community. Together, thesecontributions point to a distinctive set of challenges andpossibilities for Indigenous women and their communities. |
| Illustrations: |
23 colour figures and 4 maps |
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Canada |
| Imprint: |
AU Press |
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