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Living on the land : Indigenous women's understanding of place / edited by Nathalie Kermoal & Isabel Altamirano-Jiménez.

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AU Press, Athabasca University, c2016.

Indigenous women

Place (Philosophy).

9781771990417 (pbk.)

1771990414 (pbk.)

ix, 216 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 23 cm.

An extensive body of literature on Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing has been written since the 1980s. This research has for the most part been conducted by scholars operating within Western epistemological frameworks that tend not only to deny the subjectivity of knowledge but also to privilege masculine authority. As a result, the information gathered predominantly reflects the types of knowledge traditionally held by men, yielding a perspective that is at once gendered and incomplete. Even those academics, communities, and governments interested in consulting with Indigenous peoples for the purposes of planning, monitoring, and managing land use have largely ignored the knowledge traditionally produced, preserved, and transmitted by Indigenous women. While this omission reflects patriarchal assumptions, it may also be the result of the reductionist tendencies of researchers, who have attempted to organize Indigenous knowledge so as to align it with Western scientific categories, and of policy makers, who have sought to deploy such knowledge in the service of external priorities. Such efforts to apply Indigenous knowledge have had the effect of abstracting this knowledge from place as well as from the world view and community--and by extension the gender--to which it is inextricably connected.

Includes bibliographical references.

Kermoal, Nathalie J., 1964-

Altamirano-Jiménez, Isabel,

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