Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability

Abstract

In this article, “indigenous knowledge” and its relationship to tradition and to reinvented religion are explored. Indigenous people around the world have a rich body of knowledge about the ecology of the local flora and fauna and of ecosystem processes, accumulated and applied through many generations of observation and experience. But this knowledge extends to the entire process of “dwelling” ( Ingold, 2000 ) in their habitat, including particular ways of thinking and acting that may be seen to constitute a “habitus” in Bourdieu’s sense.