Yucatec Maya Botany and the "Nature" of Science

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ID6078767
AuthorsE Anderson (0000-0002-9549-0588), Eugene N Anderson (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume14
Issue1
Pages67-73
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Ecological Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1528-6509 • E-ISSN: 2162-4593
PublisherUniversity of South Florida Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5038/2162-4593.14.1.5
OpenAlexW2036640325
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited16

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has often been regarded as outdated, frozen in the past. For example, the anthropologist Paul Nadasdy (2004) found such attitudes in the Yukon, where government biologists, often with little field experience, dismissed and belittled local indigenous knowledge. They assumed it to be static and anecdotal, and often based on spiritual rather than empirical foundations. Similar dismissal of TEK by biologists and others is widely reported. Even anthropologists often regard TEK as a quaint survival technique that can be ignored in studies of indigenous peoples today

Archaeology · Biology · Dismissal · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Geography · Indigenous · Maya · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Latin American history and culture · Law · Philosophy · Ecology

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