Indigenous ecological knowledge as situated practices: Understanding fishers' knowledge in the Western Solomon Islands

American Anthropologist

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-329

  Lauer, Matthew ^a   Aswani, Shankar ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field methods; Indigenous ecological knowledge; Oceania; Practice theory; Western Solomon Islands

Indexed keywords

EID: 72749100428     PISSN: 00027294     EISSN: 15481433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01135.x     Document Type: Article

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