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"While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective"--

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Maps & -- Plates -- Tables -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Whys and wherefores of construction -- Chapter 2 - A dwelling perspective -- Chapter 3 - Locating the house, locating the social -- Chapter 4 - A seminar: what can archaeology and anthropology do together? -- Chapter 5 - Seminar postscript: accessing minds, past and present -- Chapter 6 - Building materials and materiality -- Chapter 7 - House construction: a how-to-do-it account and critique -- Chapter 8 - Some other structures: Tradition and change -- Chapter 9 - Snakes and bridges: social constructivism? -- Chapter 10 - Gender structures and divisions -- Chapter 11 - Passing on knowing: hands-on participation -- Chapter 12 - Knowing the tacit -- Chapter 13 -Doing it to know it -- Appendix - Glossary of Wola construction terms -- References.

Indigenous knowledge and natural resources management : an introduction featuring wildlife / Paul Sillitoe -- The dynamic nature of indigenous agricultural knowledge : an analysis of change among the Baka (Congo basin) and the Tsimane (Amazon) / Victoria Reyes-García, Isabel Díaz-Reviriego, Romain Duda, Álvaro Fernández-Llamazares, Sandrine Gallois and Sascha Huditz -- Contingency and adaptation over five decades in nuaulu forest-based plant knowledge / Roy Ellen -- "Keeping our milpa" : maize production and management of trees by Nahuas of the Sierra de Zongolica, Mexico / Citlalli López Binnqüist and Rosalinda Hidalgo Ledesma -- The contested space that local knowledge occupies : understanding the veterinary knowledges and practices of livestock farmers in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa / Andrew Ainslie -- Integrating indigenous knowledge for technology adoption in agriculture / Florencia G. Palis -- Seeds of the devil weed : local knowledge and learning from videos in Mali / Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele, Sidi Touré, Tom van Mourik, Samuel Guindo and Gérard Zoundji -- "I will continue to fight them" : local knowledge, everyday resistance and adaptation to climate change in semi-arid Tanzania / Lars Otto Naess -- Indigenous soil enrichment for food security and climate change in Africa and Asia : a review / James Fairhead, James Angus Fraser, Kojo Amanor, Dawit Solomon, Johannes Lehmann, and Melissa Leach -- Will the real raised-field agriculture please rise? : indigenous knowledge and the resolution of competing visions of one way to farm wetlands / Doyle McKey and Delphine Renard -- Andean cultural affirmation and cultural integration in context : reflections on indigenous knowledge for the in situ conservation of agrobiodiversity / Christopher Shepherd -- The indigenous knowledge of crop diversity and evolution / Stephen B. Brush -- Investigating farmers' knowledge and practice regarding crop seeds : beware your assumptions! / Daniela Soleri and David A. Cleveland -- Traditional domestic knowledge and skills in post-harvest processes : a focus on food crop storage / Patricia L. Howard -- The local wisdom of Balinese subaks / Wayan Windia, Gede Sedana, Thérèse de Vet and J. Stephen Lansing -- Indigenous agriculture and the politics of knowledge / Alder Keleman, Samara Brock, Luisa Cortesi, Chris Hebdon, Amy Johnson, Francis M. Ludlow and Michael R. Dove

A Place Against Time is an ethnographically focused environmental study of Montane, New Guinea, where people were among the world's first to cultivate crops some ten millennia ago, and where today an enduring agricultural condition continues. It arranges its account of climate, vegetation topography and geology according to their relationship with the soils of the region occupied by Wola speakers in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, in the Western Pacific. This book breaks new intellectual ground as an ethno-environmental investigation with a soils perspective, ethno-pedolog

Among the Wola people of Papua New Guinea, our category economy is problematic. Distribution is unnecessary; the producers of everyday needs are the consumers: produce goes largely "from land to mouth" – with no implication that resources are scarce. Yet transactions featuring valuable things -- which are scarce -- are a prominent aspect of life, where sociopolitical exchange figures prominently. The relationship –- or rather the disconnection –- between these two domains is central to understanding the fiercely egalitarian political-economy. In this detailed investigation of a Highland New Guinea agricultural 'economy' and acephalous political order-the most thorough inquiry into such a tropical subsistence farming system ever undertaken-esteemed anthropologist Paul Sillitoe interrogates the relevance of key economic ideas in noncapitalist contexts and challenges anthropological shibboleths such as the "gift." Furthermore, he makes a reactionary-cum-innovative contribution to research methods and analysis, drawing on advances in information technology to manage large data sets. Over a span of more than three decades, Sillitoe has compiled a huge body of ethnography, gaining unprecedented insights into Highlands' social, economic, and agricultural arrangements. He uses these here to illuminate economic thought in nonmarket contexts, advancing an integrated set of principles underpinning a stateless-subsistence order comparable to that of economists for the state-market. Sillitoe's insights have implications for economic development programs in regions where capitalist assumptions have limited relevance, following his advocacy of development interventions more respectful of existing social orders

"While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect, some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative information banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered 'primitive' and in need of change, but this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others' knowledge in development, to argue that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific or wherever, but also the global community. The issues are large and the challenges are exciting, as addressed in this book, in a range of ethnographic and institutional contexts"--Provided by publisher

This manual is for development programme managers and project leaders who wish to incorporate an indigenous knowledge element into their work. It offers a continuous spectrum of approaches and tools, from those useful to persons seeking a quick and limited IK component, to those interested in a more long-term and thorough IK investigation. The guidelines acknowledge that the design and management of IK-informed projects involve making decisions about many closely interrelated issues. They take cost, time and scope of objectives as the principal design issues. The methodology also deals with issues of team functioning that critically inform project success.