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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23913
Title: Reflections on Local Knowledge and Institutionalized Resource Management: Differences, Dominance, Decentralization.
Authors: Feit, Harvey A.
Department: Anthropology
Keywords: Local Knowledge;Wildlife Management;Economic Botany;Patient-centered Health Care;Local Resource Management;Globalization;Political Economy;Decentralization
Publication Date: 1998
Publisher: GÉTIC, Universitè Laval
Citation: Feit, Harvey A. 1998. “Reflections on Local Knowledge and Institutionalized Resource Management: Differences, Dominance, Decentralization.” In Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge in the North. Louis-Jacques Dorais, Murielle Nagy and Ludger Muller-Wille, eds. Québec: Université Laval, Gétic. Pp. 123-148. Available at the Digital Library of the Commons, Indiana U: http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/dlc/bitstream/handle/10535/2070/feit.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y Accessed Oct. 15, 2018.
Abstract: In this paper I argue: a) that it is important to examine the differences between the uses of local knowledge in wildlife management as compared to its uses in economic botany and health professions; b) that the application of local knowledge by wildlife resource professionals is decisively shaped by the interests and conditions of state institutions; c) that the processes and structures linking state systems and local peoples are little influenced by the needs and well-being of local resource users; d) that we may nevertheless be at a historical moment in which this long-standing pattern is under increasing stress, as a result of global restructuring and government funding cuts, and in which the opportunities and benefits for change are significant for state and regional institutions, local users, and wildlife.
Description: The author acknowledges constructive comments on earlier versions from: Michael Bravo, Gary Kofinas, Stuart Marks, Colin Scott, Frank Sejersen, and Joe Spaeder.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/23913
ISBN: 2-921438-24-0
Appears in Collections:Anthropology Publications

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