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External Intervention, Local Environment, and Knowledge Erosion: A Forest‐Based Community of S outh I ndia
Author(s) -
Kodirekkala Koteswara Rao
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
culture, agriculture, food and environment
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 2153-9561
pISSN - 2153-9553
DOI - 10.1111/cuag.12059
Subject(s) - traditional knowledge , context (archaeology) , intervention (counseling) , indigenous , minor (academic) , geography , environmental resource management , business , ecology , political science , psychology , environmental science , biology , archaeology , psychiatry , law
In the context of ongoing discussions of the erosion of indigenous knowledge, this report provides an analysis of how the factors “external” to a particular society may interact with “internal” (localized) factors to affect such knowledge, with a case study of the K onda R eddi of A ndhra P radesh, I ndia. The external factor of market‐oriented developmental intervention in the form of the G irijan C ooperative C orporation ( GCC ) is affecting the local forest resources and the knowledge related to them. The GCC interplay with the local environment has affected the minor forest resources, subsequently eroding and changing that knowledge. [traditional ecological knowledge, indigenous knowledge, minor forest produce, knowledge loss, Konda Reddis]