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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 "We Sing Our Law, Is That Still TEK?" : Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Can the West Come to Know?
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'Throughout history, anthropologists have confronted a number of uncomfortable truths around the supposed nature of reality. The anthropological maxim, "through the study of others we learn more about ourselves" has been sorely tested en route. Arguably, this challenge reached culmination during the 1970s and 80s, with several prominent social commentators from Geertz to Clifford suggesting that anthropologists had, in both past and present, been much more concerned with the study of 'others' than of 'ourselves' (Nader 1964:289). In essence, this reflexive critique suggested that ethnographers were in the business of writing fiction and more insidiously came to the field equipped with a set of assumptions and presuppositions about the world in all its variety. These universal verities functioned to reduce all subjects of study into conformity with the observer's sense of what was real and of import and what was not and inconsequential.' (Publication summary)

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    y separately published work icon PAN no. 11 2014-2015 9306875 2014 periodical issue 2014-2015 pg. 19-26
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19-26 "We Sing Our Law, Is That Still TEK?" : Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Can the West Come to Know?small AustLit logo PAN
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