Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic
Karim-Aly S. Kassam
University of Calgary Press (May 2009) | ISBN: 978-1-55238-253-0
A narrative of community-based research, this book deals with issues including climate change, indigenous knowledge, and the impact of natural resource extraction. Author Karim-Aly Kassam aims to empirically and theoretically illustrate the synthesis between the cultural and biological, using human ecology as a conceptual and analytical lens. Drawing on research carried out in partnership with indigenous northern communities, three case studies illustrate that subsistence hunting and gathering are not relics of an earlier era, but rather remain essential to both cultural diversity and to human survival. Further information …
