ethnoScience and TEKnology: A student’s perspective on STS and the anthropology of indigenous knowledge

1. ethnoScience and TEKnology: A student’s perspective on STS and the anthropology of indigenous knowledge Adam Henne, ahenne@uga.edu Department of Anthropology University of Georgia

2. STS on indigenous knowledge • Turnbull, D. 2000. Masons, Tricksters and Cartographers: Comparative Studies in the Sociology of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers. • Watson-Verran, H. and D. Turnbull. 2001. “Science and other indigenous knowledge systems,” in Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, S. Jasanoff et al, eds. London: Sage. • Eglash, Ron and etc.

3. multiplying terminologies: • Indigenous knowledge • IK • Traditional ecological knowledge • TEK • Indigenous ecological knowledge • Local knowledge • LEK • TEKW

4. Ethnobiology • Schultes, Richard Evans. 1995. Ethnobotany: The Evolution of a Discipline. • Davis, Wade. 1997. One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest. • Plotkin, Mark. 1993. Tales of a shaman's apprentice : an ethnobotanist searches for new medicines in the Amazon rain forest. • Berlin, B., D. Breedlove, and P. Raven. 1966. Folk taxonomies and biological classification. Science 154. • Berlin, B. 1992. Principles of ethnobotanical classification. X:X. • Conklin, H. 1969. An ethnoecological approach to shifting agriculture. In Environment and Cultural Behavior, AP Vayda, ed. • Also see www.ethnobiology.org

5. Indigenous knowledge and rural development • Chambers, Robert. 1983. Rural Development: Putting the Last First. • Toledo, V. 1992. What is ethnoecology? Origins, scope, and implications of a rising discipline. Etnoecologia 1(1). • NUFFIC = http://www.ik-pages.net/

6. Indigenous knowledge in global settings • Posey, D. 2004. Indigenous knowledge and ethics: A Darrell Posey reader. London: Routledge. • Brush, S. 1993. Indigenous knowledge of biological resources and intellectual property rights: the role of anthropology. Annual Reviews of Anthropology 95(3). • Gadgil, M. 2000. New meanings for old knowledge: The People’s Biodiversity Register Program. Ecological Applications 10(5). • TEKPAD = http://ip.aaas.org/tekindex.nsf

7. Critiques of indigenous knowledge • Richards, P. 1993. “Cultivation: Knowledge or performance?” in Anthropological Critique of Development, M Hobart, ed. London: Routledge • Agrawal, A. 1995. Dismantling the divide between indigenous and scientific knowledge. Development and Change 26. • Ellen, R., P. Parkes, and A. Bicker. 2000. Indigenous ecological knowledge and its transformations. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic. • Nadasdy, P. The politics of TEK. Arctic Anthropology 36(1-2). • Nygren, A. 1999. Local knowledge in the environment-development discourse. Critiques of Anthropology 19(3). • Brosius, J.P. 1997. Endangered forests, endangered people: Environmentalist representations of indigenous knowledge. Human Ecology 25(1).

8. What can the anthropology of indigenous knowledge get out of STS? • “Western science” is not a single entity • Situating knowledge practices historically and politically • Challenging “knowledge systems”

9. What can STS get out of the anthropology of indigenous knowledge? • “Data diversity” • Wider sphere of relevance • research methods

10. Three discourses of science and citizenship in Chile (a shameless self-promotion)

11. “Chile is Timber Country”

12. “The common heritage of all Chileans”

13. “The timber companies are directly responsible for the repression of the Mapuche people.” “The environmentalists are computer warriors who never accomplish anything concrete.”