The Intermediate Technology Development Group has launched a new
series of books highlighting the contributions to local, national,
and international development made by indigenous knowledge systems --
and the tensions which ignoring that knowledge can create. The series
will constitute an an important and growing contribution to the tools
available to development, academic, and activist communities in
understanding these processes.
The Intermediate Technology Development Group was founded by the late
Dr. E.F. Schumacher. Intermediate Technology enables poor people in
the South to develop and use skills and technologies which give them
more control over their lives and which contribute to the sustainable
development of their communities.
Currently available books are:
*Facing Kirinyaga: A Social History of Forest Commons in Southern
Mount Kenya*, by Alfonso Peter Castro.
*The Cultural Dimensions of Development: Indigenous Knowledge
Systems*, edited by D. Michael Warren, L. Jan Slikkerveer, and David
Brokensha.
Available in the US from: Women Ink, 777 UN Plaza, New York, NY
10017. Fax: 212-687 8633