Yucatec Maya Botany and the “Nature” of Science
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Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has often been regarded as outdated, frozen in the past. For example, the anthropologist Paul Nadasdy (2004) found such attitudes in the Yukon, where government biologists, often with little field experience, dismissed and belittled local indigenous knowledge. They assumed it to be static and anecdotal, and often based on spiritual rather than empirical foundations. Similar dismissal of TEK by biologists and others is widely reported. Even anthropologists often regard TEK as a quaint survival technique that can be ignored in studies of indigenous peoples today.
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