Books

Indigenous Legal Judgments Bringing Indigenous Voices into Judicial Decision Making
2021
Author(s): Watson N, Douglas H
This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people’s stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.

Indigenous ways of understanding and interacting with the natural world are characterized as Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), which derives from emphasizing relationships and connections among species. This book examines TEK and its strengths in relation to Western ecological knowledge and evolutionary philosophy.

The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge
2024
Author(s): Thornton T F, Bhagwat S A
This volume provides an overview of key themes in Indigenous Environmental Knowledge (IEK) and anchors them with brief but well-grounded empirical case studies of relevance for each of these themes, drawn from bioculturally diverse areas around the world.

Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives
2000
Author(s): Bicker A, Ellen R, Parkes P
The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures.

Collective Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Identity-Based Movement of Plain Indigenous in Taiwan
2010
Author(s): Hsieh J
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.

Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge for the Modern Era: A Natural and Applied Science Perspective
2021
Author(s): Katerere D R, Applequist W, Aboyade O M, Togo C
This book presents a compilation of reviews, case studies, and primary research attempting to locate the utility of traditional and Indigenous Knowledges in an increasingly complex world.

Being Indigenous: Perspectives on Activism, Culture, Language and Identity
2018
Author(s): Greymorning N
The book provides valuable historical and political insight into the lingering impact of colonization, considering the issues faced by Indigenous peoples today and reflecting on the ability of their cultures, languages and identities to survive in the twenty-first century.

Indigenous Governance of Traditional Knowledge: The Legal Implementation of Access and Benefit-Sharing in Australia
2023
Author(s): Collings N
This book addresses the issue of Indigenous peoples' participation in genetic resource access and benefit-sharing and associated traditional knowledge for self-determination.

Indigenous Peoples' Wisdom and Power: Affirming Our Knowledge Through Narratives
2010
Author(s): Gray M, Coates J
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.

Indigenous Religion(s) Local Grounds, Global Networks
2021
Author(s): Kraft E S, Tafjord B O, Longkumer A, Alles G D, Johnson G
This book sheds light on the contemporary lives of indigenous religion(s), through case studies from Sápmi, Nagaland, Talamanca, Hawai`i, and Gujarat, and through a shared focus on translations, performances, mediation and sovereignty. It builds on long term case-studies and on the collaborative comparison of a long-term project, including shared fieldwork.