Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Working with Indigenous peoples, valuing Indigenous knowledge systems, and weaving together Indigenous and non-Indigenous science are critical to cultivating a healthy and just world.The book Natural Science and Indigenous Knowledge: The Americas Experience is positioned as an edited volume to introduce ecologists to the many ways scholars have collaborated with Indigenous knowledge holders and with Indigenous Peoples.The eight chapters presented in the volume can be read as a collection or as stand-alone pieces, which focus on examples from across the Americas.Chapters are authored and coauthored by practitioners, experts, elders, and academics in diverse social science, education, and science-basedfields.Indigenousauthorshipisrepresented,althoughthebookisnotIndigenous-led.The chapters of varying lengths provide a set of case studies that advocate for recognizing Indigenous knowledge systems as science and share how integrating diverse knowledge systems coproduces new insights that assist with analyses of complex socioecological processes.Findings reported from the works have the potential to foster coproduced research that inform policy and management strategies to sustain ecological and human well-being.This volume, in part, can be read as a response to the overwhelming number of international conventions, peer-reviewed articles, workshops, and other initiatives that have sought to recognize Indigenous knowledge holders and knowledge systems as part of the solution to local to global change.
DOI: 10.1002/bes2.2212
Author: Laura Zanotti
Institution: University of Cincinnati
Language: English
Subfield: General Health Professions
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
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OpenAlex ID: W4405267161