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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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