Video Message by AntĂłnio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, on World's Indigenous Peoples Day, 9 August 2022.

The current study involved identification and preservation of Kuki indigenous agricultural knowledge with emphasis on the role of libraries. It is a quantitative study, aimed and designed to study the signification of Kuki indigenous knowledge and its contribution to the community. Research was conducted in order to try to answer the research questions and fulfil objectives set for the study

The scope of the present study is to examine whether the traditional health care system and treatment depend on nature and environment and how the health status particularly in tribal societies connected with forest. It has also been examined how western health care system is affecting the traditional health care system.

The book includes in-depth case studies across different geographic spaces. Contains contributions from a range of young to eminent scholars, researchers and policymakers. It highlights new insights from social science, environmental science and sustainable development and synthesizes research on society, ecology and technology with sustainability, all in a single resource.

This highly original study puts forward the notion that every culture has its own ways of assembling local knowledge, thereby creating space through the linking of people, practices and places.

The field study in the various Memba villages reveals that these people are dependant on the surrounding forest for their day-today necessities or requirements. Their traditional belief and practices have helped them in the preservation of their age-old culture and along with it in the conservation of the forest.

This volume brings together prominent international scholars involved in both Western and indigenous social work across the globe - including James Midgley, Linda Briskman, Alean Al-Krenawi and John R. Graham - to discuss some of the most significant global trends and issues relating to indigenous and cross-cultural social work.

After colonization, indigenous people faced an extractive property rights regime for both their land and knowledge. This book outlines that regime, and how the symbolic function of international intellectual property continues today to assist states to enclose indigenous peoples' knowledge.

This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and nation-states and urge more activist and energized roles for museums in the decades ahead.

This book is the first in a series of three volumes on “Kautilya and His Vocabulary” as a part of the “Indigenous Historical Knowledge” project undertaken by the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), New Delhi. The edited volumes contain select papers presented in a series of workshop, national and international seminars organised by the institute.