Indigenous crops, tremendously valuable both for food security and cultural survival, are
experiencing a resurgence in Hawaiʻi. These crops have been historically valued by …

National historical narratives generally leave out local histories of groups on the periphery of
society. This is accentuated in colonised settings where colonial powers promote the …

While agricultural origins have been recently revised in light of new genetic and
archaeological evidence, parallel synthesis of subsequent developments in agricultural …

Indigenous and local communities have developed a rich array of nature-based
technologies for water security built upon place-based knowledge-belief-practice systems …

The transverse harvest knife, also commonly called the finger or finger-bladed knife, has
been utilized by rice farmers in southeast Asia for many centuries. The finger knife persisted …

Establishing the construction sequence of agricultural terraces is extremely complicated due
to the nature of their technological foundation and use. A number of methodological …

Abstract Environmental practice in Ifugao, Philippines is considered to have anchored the
successful resistance against Spanish conquest in the highlands of the Philippine …

Nowadays, agricultural terraces and dry-stone walls have become protagonists of a
territorial “rebirth” through a process of resemantization that recognizes them as a local …

The Ifugao of the northern Philippines successfully resisted repeated attempts by the
Spanish at conquest. Archaeological work by the Ifugao Archaeological Project have shown …

Generally, conventional biomedically rooted ethical guidelines developed in Western
countries for ethnographic research in non-Western countries are often impractical and raise …