On knowing and not knowing: The many valuations of piaroa local knowledge

Local Science vs Global Science: Approaches to Indigenous Knowledge in International Development

Volumn 9781845450144, Issue , 2006, Pages 91-107

  Heckler, Serena ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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