The World According to Is'a: Combining Empiricism and Spiritual Understanding in Indigenous Ways of Knowing

Ethnobiology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 65-81

  Pierotti, Raymond ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Indigenous perspectives, understanding wholes level of human perception; Is'a, spiritual understanding, Indigenous ways of knowing human beings, and intellectual and spiritual struggles; Western and Indigenous ways, natural world attitudes and response to predatory organisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886448482     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118015872.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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