Karim-Aly S. Kassam: Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Human Ecology in the Arctic

Abstract

Human ecology has been broadly defined as the interdisciplinary study of the complex and varied systems of interaction between humans and their environment (Editors, Human Ecology 1972). In Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Karim-Aly Kassam provides a meaningful conceptual framework of human ecology integrating biological and cultural diversity with specific reference to the Circumpolar Arctic. Building on years of community-based research carried out in the Arctic region, he makes fine theoretical and empirical contributions to the further development of human ecological science.