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Jul 09 2015

Women displaying kitete gourds and kitete seed necklaces at community festival Credit: Yasuyuki Morimoto/Bioversity International

Countering Local Knowledge Loss and Landrace Extinction in Kenya: The Case of the Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Yasuyuki Morimoto Women displaying kitete gourds and kitete seed necklaces at community festival Credit: Yasuyuki Morimoto/Bioversity International For the Kamba people in the Kitui District of Kenya,…

Jul 09 2015

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Wild Resources and Cultural Values: Implications for Biocultural Diversity in South Africa

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Michelle Cocks The woodpile is the Xhosa women's status symbol and cultural totem. Photo: Tony Dold Since the 1980s, the government of South Africa has taken a more…

Jul 09 2015

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Learning That Wisdom Sits In Places: Apache Students Reconnecting To Land and Identity In Arizona, US

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributors: Jonathan Long and Judy DeHose Apache students identifying plants at Goshtlish Tú Bil Sikané. Photo Credit: Julee DeHose Over three decades ago years ago, nearly 300 places…

Jul 09 2015

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Caring for Country: Transmission of Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge in Western Australia

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Kimberley Language Resource Centre Aboriginal Corporation The Kimberley region of Western Australia is one of the most linguistically diverse areas of Australia. At least forty-two languages, plus dialects,…

Jul 09 2015

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Supporting Traditional Health Practices in Urban Areas: Indigenous Theory for First Nations Health in Canada

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Dawn Marsden Kinnikinnick (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), used by Indigenous Peoples in British Columbia, Canada, to treat urinary tract infections. Photo: Agnieszka Kwiecień/Wikimedia Commons The dissertation project “Indigenous Theory…

Jul 09 2015

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Worlds of Difference: Local Culture in a Global Age

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Jonathan Miller Peruvian biologist María Scurrah learning the names of traditional potato varieties from a farmer in Quilcas, Junín Department, Peru. Photo: Jonathan Miller Homeland Productions is an independent,…

Jul 09 2015

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Strengthening Culture and Conservation through Intangible Heritage and Performing Arts: The “Dance for the Earth and for Her Peoples” Initiative

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Robert Wild A dance of the Bambuti community of Semliki Forest, Western Uganda. Photo: Robert Wild The concept for the “Dance for the Earth and for Her Peoples”…

Jul 09 2015

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The Language of the Environment: A Comparative Environmental Thesaurus

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Fulvio Mazzocchi The “Environmental Applications Reference Thesaurus” (EARTh) project, carried out by the Institute for Atmospheric Pollution at the National Research Council in Italy, is developing an advanced…

Jul 09 2015

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Ancient Botanical Knowledge as Living Knowledge: Medicinal Plants of Antiquity

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: Alain Touwaide Dr. Alain Touwaide at work in the Library at Soliman the Magnificent Mosque, Istanbul, examining ancient herbals and documents from which he recovers information about ancient…

Jul 09 2015

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Recovering Landscape Health and Cultural Resilience in the Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico

By Coreen Boucher

Project Contributor: David J. Rapport Luís and Tomás Palma gathering native pine seeds for a tree nursery in their Sierra Tarahumara community Credit: David J. Rapport The Rarámuri people (also…

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Countering Local Knowledge Loss and Landrace Extinction in Kenya: The Case of the Bottle Gourd (Lagenaria siceraria)

Wild Resources and Cultural Values: Implications for Biocultural Diversity in South Africa

Learning That Wisdom Sits In Places: Apache Students Reconnecting To Land and Identity In Arizona, US

Caring for Country: Transmission of Aboriginal Environmental Knowledge in Western Australia

Supporting Traditional Health Practices in Urban Areas: Indigenous Theory for First Nations Health in Canada

Worlds of Difference: Local Culture in a Global Age

Strengthening Culture and Conservation through Intangible Heritage and Performing Arts: The “Dance for the Earth and for Her Peoples” Initiative

The Language of the Environment: A Comparative Environmental Thesaurus

Ancient Botanical Knowledge as Living Knowledge: Medicinal Plants of Antiquity

Recovering Landscape Health and Cultural Resilience in the Sierra Tarahumara, Mexico

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