Are Glaciers ‘Good to Think With’? Recognising Indigenous Environmental Knowledge 1

摘要: Lively debates in arctic and subarctic communities centre on potential contributions of indigenous knowledge to environmental sciences. Some scientists are now attempting integrate traditional ecological (TEK) into existing frameworks as data. Anthropologists working with oral tradition propose an alternative approach. They reason that greater value, especially the possibility surprises, may come from unfamiliar accounts do not seem fit easily within conventional frameworks. This paper builds I first heard senior women north-western North America about unorthodox behaviour glaciers. These glaciers were depicted sentient, wilful beings responded directly sometimes dramatically human behaviour, often devastating results. Similar themes documented colonial records where such ideas discounted ‘superstition’. Oral traditions, though, provide straightforward data for contemporary sciences...