Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom

by Joy Hendry

Book Overview

Indigenous science is often dismissed as quackery or nonsense, out of touch with progress and current events. However, Indigenous peoples have passed down vital information for generations, from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of likely earthquakes. These scientific practices that have been developed by Indigenous peoples around the world have been largely ignored by Western...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137435909
• ISBN13: 9781137435903
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 199 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"