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Performance Knowledge: uncovering the dynamics of biocultural diversity of Borneo’s tropical forests through a Penan hunting technique

Puri, Rajindra K. (2020) Performance Knowledge: uncovering the dynamics of biocultural diversity of Borneo’s tropical forests through a Penan hunting technique. In: The Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Environmental Knowledge. Routledge International Handbooks . Routledge, London, UK, pp. 67-71. ISBN 978-1-138-28091-5. E-ISBN 978-1-315-27084-5. (doi:10.4324/9781315270845-7) (Access to this publication is currently restricted. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:84059)

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Abstract

This chapter illustrates a kind of local ecological knowledge, which I call performance knowledge, that develops and is applied in the course of resource use activities, in part, to deal with contingency and the dynamics of biocultural diversity. Performance knowledge emerges and evolves through the practice of subsistence activities, and is procedural in form and strategic in function, allowing a practitioner to “manage” people, wildlife, tools, materials, and various contexts of a particular activity and to respond to change in these components and contexts in the course of that activity. To illustrate performance knowledge, I describe a hunting technique known as nedok, performed today only by a very few expert hunters of the Penan Benalui people of Indonesian Borneo.

Item Type: Book section
DOI/Identification number: 10.4324/9781315270845-7
Uncontrolled keywords: Hunting, indigenous knowledge, Penan, ethnobiology
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation
Signature Themes: Food Systems, Natural Resources and Environment
Depositing User: Rajindra Puri
Date Deposited: 11 Nov 2020 11:13 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Feb 2021 14:16 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/84059 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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