Sacred Ecology

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface to the First Edition -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- 1 Context of Traditional Ecological Knowledge -- Defining Traditional Ecological Knowledge -- Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Science -- Differences: Philosophical or Political? -- Knowledge-Practice-Belief: A Framework for Analysis -- Objectives and Overview of the Volume -- 2 Traditional Knowledge Comes of Age -- Emergence of Traditional Knowledge Internationally -- Meanings and Significance of Traditional Knowledge -- Cultural and Political Significance of Traditional Knowledge -- Questions of Ownership and Intellectual Property Rights -- Practical Significance as Common Heritage of Humankind -- 3 Intellectual Roots of Traditional Ecological Knowledge -- Ethnobiology and Biosystematics: A Good Fit -- More on Linguistics and Methodology: How to Get the Information Right -- Exaggeration and Ethnoscience: The Eskimo Snow Hoax? -- Human Ecology and Territoriality -- Integration of Social Systems and Natural Systems: Importance of Worldviews -- 4 Traditional Knowledge Systems in Practice -- Tropical Forests: Not Amenable to Management? -- Semi-aridAreas: Keeping the Land Productive -- Traditional Uses of Fire -- Island Ecosystems-Personal Ecosystems -- Coastal Lagoons and Wetlands -- Conclusions -- 5 Cree Worldview "From the Inside"--Animals Control the Hunt -- Obligations of Hunters to Show Respect -- Importance of Continued Use for Sustainability -- Is the Cree Worldview Shared by Other Indigenous Peoples? -- Conclusions -- 6 A Story of Caribou and Social Learning -- "No One Knows the Way of the Winds and the Caribou"--Cree Knowledge of Caribou in Context -- Caribou Return to the Land of the Chisasibi Cree