Indigenous Knowledge and the Environment in Africa and North America

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ABCFM (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions), 161, 162, 163, 165 Acholi, 226–27, 231, 234 Adair, James, 152–53, 154, 167n8 Adanson, Michel, 62 adultery, 153, 223 Aeschylus, 221 African National Congress (ANC), 269–70, 289, 290, 294–95 African potato, 272, 277, 283n30 African Renaissance, 261, 277 Afrikaners, 14 Agrawal, Arun, 2 Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope (AJCGH), 96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106 agriculture African, 63, 94–106, 113–23, 196–210, 293, 298, 300 Columbia River Basin, 189 harvesting, 33, 86, 153, 156, 205, 260, 261 Native American, 29, 33, 39–40, 44 prosperity in, 17, 196–97, 199 slash and burn, 199 See also fertility, human/land; ritual, agricultural ague, 56, 66n11 ague-weed, 58 AIDS, 128n31, 259, 260, 261, 270–71, 277–79 Ainu, 5 AJCGH (Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope), 96, 97, 99, 100, 102, 103, 104, 106 albatrosses, 87 Albers, Patricia, 34 Albert, Isaac, 182–83 Albert, Thomas, 182–83 alcohol as malaria treatment, 58, 60 as intoxicant, 222, 223, 293. See also beer; whisky; wine Alego, 224–25 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), 161, 162, 163, 165 American centaury, 58 American Medical Association, 229 American wigeon, 72 ancestors beliefs of, 173–74, 184, 196–210 burial of/graveyards of, 12, 196, 197, 201–4, 207–9, 222, 232 incarnations of, 196, 221, 227 indigeneity dependent on, 6 spirits of, 196–210 Andy, Fidelia, 190 animal rights, 221, 253 animals associated with descent, 83 domestic, 40, 74, 77, 79, 82 endangered, 268 human connection to, 175, 216–34, 248–49 as prophetic messengers, 86, 216–34 resources of, 14, 139, 140, 191 sacrifice of, 205, 225, 226, 230 spirits of, 167n11, 176, 220, 233 Index 320 | Index animals (cont’d) as symbols, 86, 116, 143, 216–34, 237n16 See also animism; livestock; totemism; specific type of animal animism, 7, 54, 175 Anna Johanna, 160 anthropologists, 7, 9, 10, 17, 32, 34 colonial, 197, 208, 210 on Mid-Columbia Indians, 174, 175, 177 research of Navajo Reservation land, 136–37, 143 on spiritual movements, 217, 218, 219 Antigone (Sophocles), 221 apartheid, 9, 18, 261, 271, 272, 287–92, 297 Army Corps of Engineers, 183 arroyos, 130, 135, 147n22 arsenite of soda, 114 arthritis, 279 aspirin, 59, 67n17 Athena, 86 Auma, Alice, 226–27 Balch, Billy, 248 bald eagle, 74, 75 Baltimore orioles, 75, 76 Banded Rock Boy, 140 bank swallow, 73 Bantu, 3, 226, 297 Bantu Authorities Act, 288, 292 Bangweulu, Lake, 205 Baptists, 165, 170n57 barnacle geese, 87 barn owl, 86, 87 barred owl, 73, 75, 76, 78, 83 Barrow, John, 97, 98 Bartram, William, 75, 76 Basso, Keith, 32 bath, vapor, 59 Batwa, 20n8, 205 Beach, David, 125n9 Beale, Edward, 134–35 Beale Trail, 134 Beall, Jo, 289 bee-martin, 76 beer, 203, 205 bees, 226 Belloni, Robert C., 185 belted kingfishers, 73, 75 Belyea, Barbara, 31, 32, 41–42, 48n11 Bemba, 5, 196–210 Bennett, Hugh Hammond, 132 Bering Sea, 247 Bernstein, David, 8, 13 berries, 173, 179, 180, 244 Béteille, André, 6 biomedicines, 53–65, 259, 261, 264, 267–69 biopiracy, 263 bioprospecting, 18, 65n2, 260, 261, 262–64, 265, 283n24 birds domesticated, 74, 79, 82, 89n4 folk beliefs about/perceptions of, 73, 78–79, 81–89, 248 as messengers, 116, 219, 220 naming/classifying of, 8, 13, 69–89 spirit-birds, 73, 79, 83, 87 as symbols, 116, 216–34 See also specific types of birds Bisa, 5, 197, 204–5, 209 bitterns, 76, 85 blackbirds, 72, 73, 76, 80, 86 black-capped chickadee, 76, 77 blackcaps, 87 black-crowned night herons, 77 black duck, 90n14 Black Elk, 219 Blackhawk Wars, 40 Black Hills, 222 black vultures, 73, 75, 76 bleeding, 60, 161 Blessingway, 138–40, 149n33 blowguns, 81–82 Blue, Sam, 73, 89n4 bluebirds, 74, 75, 78, 83 blue crane, 76 blue darter, 76 blue hawk, 76 blue heron, 76, 78 blue jay, 72 boat-tailed grackle, 75 bobolink, 76 bobwhite, 78 Boilivin, Nicolas, 50n29 Bond, James, 226 boneset, 58 Bonneville Dam, 183, 186, 190 botanical gardens, 65n2, 265, 266 Index | 321 botany, 12, 71 Botkin, Daniel, 143 bowels, 59 brant goose, 72, 76 Brelsford, W. V., 207–8 Breyer-Brandwijk, M. G., 266, 284n32 British South African Company (BSAC), 206, 207 broadbill, 90n14 broad-winged hawks, 73 Brody, Hugh, 32 Broster, Joan A., 119 brown-headed cowbird, 73, 80 Brownlee, W...