Local knowledge and memory in biodiversity conservation

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Author(s):
V. Nazarea

Type of Document:
Scholarly Article

 

Publisher/Journal:
Annual Reviews

Date of Publication:
2006

Place of Publication:
Palo Alto, CA

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Abstract: For the past two decades, biodiversity conservation has been an area of concerted action and spirited debate. Given the centrality of biodiversity to the earth’s life support system, its increasing vulnerability is being addressed in international conservation as well as in research by anthropologists and other social scientists on the cultural, economic, political, and legal aspects of human engagement with biological resources. The concepts of biodiversity as a social construct and historical discourse, of local knowledge as loaded representation and invented tradition, and of cultural memory as selective reconstruction and collective political consciousness have also been the foci of recent critical reflection.

Additional Bibliographic Information

Annual Review of Anthropology 35: 317-335

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