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Indigenous Peoples and the Collaborative Stewardship of Nature Knowledge Binds and Institutional Conflicts

2011

Author(s): Ross A, Sherman K P, Snodgrass J G, Delcore H D, Sherman R

This book offers a comprehensive and global overview of the theoretical, methodological, and practical dimensions of co-management.

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The focus of this book is on the PingPu peoples in Taiwan and their right to official recognition as "indigenous peoples" by the Taiwanese government. The result of centuries of colonization, indigenous tribes in Taiwan have faced severe cultural repression because of the government's refusal to accept ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity.

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Indigenous Religions

2010

Author(s): Hunt S

This volume on Indigenous Religions in The Library of Essays on Sexuality and Religion series focuses on indigenous religions and their attitudes towards human sexuality.

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Capturing the narratives of indigenes, this book presents a unique anthology on global Indigenous peoples' wisdoms and ways of knowing. Covering issues of religion, cultural self-determination, philosophy, spirituality, sacred sites, oppression, gender and the suppressed voices of women, the diverse global contexts across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, North and South America, and Oceania are highlighted.

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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.

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Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development: Scientific, Social, Cultural and Educational Challenges.

2009

Author(s): United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The book seeks  to  stimulate  debate  on  how  to  ensure  a sustained,  comprehensive,  interdisciplinary  and  multi-actor  approach  to  monitoring, managing and responding to change in the Arctic.

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Indigenous Rights

2009

Author(s): Connolly A J

The papers in this collection address the most important philosophical and practical issues informing the discussion of indigenous rights over the past decade or so, at both the international and national levels. Its contributing authors comprise some of the most interesting and influential indigenous and non-indigenous thinkers presently writing on the topic.

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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives

2009

Author(s): Sleeper-Smith S

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.

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International Encyclopedia of Human Geography

2009

Author(s): Kitchin R, Thrift N

The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on the discipline of human geography and its constituent, and related, subject areas. The encyclopedia includes over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices, biographies of notable geographers, and geographical thought and praxis in different parts of the world

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Indigenous Australians and the Law

2008

Author(s): Hinton M, Rigney D, Johnston E

Bringing together a well-respected team of commentators, many of them indigenous Australians themselves, this revised and updated edition examines the legal, social and political developments that have taken place in Australia since the publication of the last edition.