David W. Brokensha
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- PhD Anthropology University of Cape Town
- Masters Anthropology University of Cape Town
- Bachelors Anthropology University of Cape Town
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Warwick Brokensha was a South African anthropologist and university professor, known for his work on Indigenous development and cultures in Africa. Early life and education Brokensha was born in Durban, Union of South Africa on 23 May 1923. His father was a lawyer , while his mother was a nursing sister from Lancashire in England; they married in 1915. His paternal grandfather was from Cornwall and had moved to the area in 1870.
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- The cultural dimension of development: indigenous knowledge systems (1995) (516)
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development (1980) (510)
- The regional program for the promotion of indigenous knowledge in Asia. (1995) (166)
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and rapid rural appraisal for indigenous sustainable development. (1995) (133)
- Indigenous communication and indigenous knowledge. (1995) (125)
- Siaya: The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape. (1990) (102)
- Farmers who experiment: an untapped resource for agricultural research and development. (1995) (68)
- Community Development; An Interpretation. (1969) (62)
- Conservation in Africa: Local institutions, tenure and resource management in East Africa (1988) (51)
- Land and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya (1985) (49)
- The Cultural Dimension of Development (1995) (47)
- Social Change at Larteh, Ghana (1966) (44)
- Sobhuza II, Ngwenyama and King of Swaziland (1978) (41)
- Ethnobotanical knowledge systems - a resource for meeting rural development goals. (1995) (37)
- Anthropology of Development and Change in East Africa (1988) (33)
- Government and Politics in the Akuapem State 1730-1850 (1974) (32)
- Wood fuel surveys. (1983) (30)
- CIKARD: A global approach to documenting indigenous knowledge for development. (1995) (29)
- Land Reform among the Mbeere of Central Kenya (1973) (28)
- Potato taxonomies in Andean agriculture. (1980) (25)
- Indigenous systems of natural resource management among pastoralists of arid and semi-arid Africa. (1995) (25)
- The Mbeere in Kenya (1988) (24)
- Indicators of rural inequality (1981) (24)
- Agricultural development with a focus on local resources: ILEIA's view on indigenous knowledge. (1995) (23)
- Sustainable development and indigenous knowledge systems in Nigeria: the role of the Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER). (1995) (20)
- Volta Resettlement and Anthropological Research (1963) (19)
- A River of Blessings: Essays in Honor of Paul Baxter (1997) (19)
- Farmer know-how and communication for technology transfer: CTTA in Niger. (1995) (17)
- Mbeere knowledge of their vegetation and its relevance for development: a case-study from Kenya. (1980) (17)
- The Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Insight and Industrial Empire in the Semiarid World. (1991) (17)
- Mbeere knowledge of their vegetation and its relevance for development: a case-study from Kenya. (1980) (17)
- Peasants in 19th-Century Asante [and Comments and Reply] (1983) (17)
- IUCN and indigenous peoples: how to promote sustainable development. (1995) (16)
- Tema Manhean: A Study of Resettlement. (1967) (16)
- Ethnoscience and the African farmer: rationale and strategy. (1980) (15)
- Fuelwood use in rural Kenya: impacts of deforestation. (1983) (15)
- Climate change and threatened communities: vulnerability, capacity and action. (2012) (14)
- Survival under stress: socioecological perspectives on farmers' innovations and risk adjustments. (1995) (11)
- A Bibliography of Ghana: 1958–1964 (1967) (10)
- CIRAN: Networking for indigenous knowledge. (1995) (10)
- Changes in uses of plants in Mbeere, Kenya (1986) (10)
- Local traditions and community forestry management: a view from Nepal. (1995) (9)
- Using indigenous knowledge in a subsistence society of Sudan. (1995) (9)
- African Studies in the United States (1964) (9)
- Indigenous knowledge and famine relief in the Horn of Africa. (1995) (8)
- Neem in Niger: a new context for a system of indigenous knowledge. (1995) (8)
- Indigenous knowledge of fish processing and marketing utilized by women traders of Cape Coast, Ghana. (1980) (8)
- LEAD: The Leiden ethnosystems and development programme. (1995) (7)
- Vegetation changes in Mbere division, Embu (1977) (7)
- Fuelwood, agro-forestry, and natural resource management : the development significance of land tenure and other resource management/utilization systems (1984) (7)
- Incorporating farmers' knowledge in international rice research. (1995) (7)
- INDAKS: a bibliography and database on indigenous agricultural knowledge systems and sustainable development in the tropics. (1995) (7)
- Privatization of land and tree planting in Mbeere, Kenya. (1987) (7)
- Use of local knowledge in managing the Niger river fisheries project. (1995) (7)
- Indigenous knowledge systems and agroforestry projects in the central hills of Nepal. (1995) (6)
- Trends in Development Administration (1969) (6)
- Traditional ecological knowledge and UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme. (1995) (6)
- Applied anthropology in English-speaking Africa (1968) (6)
- The one who has changed is the person': observations and explanations of climate change in the Ecuadorian Andes. (2012) (6)
- Indigenous folk media in rural development. (1980) (6)
- The socio-economic context of fuelwood use in small rural communities. Evaluation special study No. 1 (1980) (5)
- Indigenous knowledge as reflected in agriculture and rural development. (1995) (5)
- Some consequences of land adjudication in Mbere division, Embu (1977) (5)
- Indigenous decision-making in agriculture - a reflection of gender and socioeconomic status in the Philippines. (1995) (5)
- Introduction of cash crops in a marginal area of Kenya. (1980) (5)
- The Mbeere in Kenya. Volume 1: changing rural ecology. (1988) (5)
- Peace Corps Training for Africa (1965) (5)
- Listening to Africa: Developing Africa from the Grassroots@@@Rural Communities under Stress: Peasant Farmers and the State in Africa@@@African Food Systems in Crisis, Part One: Microperspectives (1992) (4)
- Ethnoscience in rural development. (1980) (4)
- Development: Social-anthropological Aspects (2001) (4)
- A sociological analysis of Balinese water temples. (1995) (4)
- Applied ethnoscience and dialogical communication in rural development. (1980) (4)
- 22 – MANAGING NATURAL RESOURCES: THE LOCAL LEVEL (1989) (4)
- Risk and abandonment, and the meta-narrative of climate change. (2012) (4)
- Botanical identities and uses (1988) (4)
- Review Symposium (1985) (3)
- The socioeconomic context of fuelwood use in small rural communities. (1980) (3)
- The Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and Development (CLADES) - fostering rural development based on indigenous knowledge. (1995) (3)
- Mbere clans and land adjudication (1971) (3)
- Beekeeping in Embu District, Kenya (1972) (3)
- Forest gardens of highland Sri Lanka - an indigenous system for reclaiming forest land. (1995) (3)
- Changing rural ecology (1988) (3)
- Reclaiming the past to respond to climate change: Mayan farmers and ancient agricultural techniques in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. (2012) (3)
- The anthropology of development in sub-Saharan Africa (1970) (3)
- Using indigenous knowledge systems in the design of on-farm experiments - a Philippine case. (1995) (3)
- Administration in Kenya: A study of the rural division of Mbere (1974) (2)
- Christianity and change (1961) (2)
- Development interventions and self-realization among the Gourma. (1980) (2)
- “MAXIMUM Feasible Participation” (U.S.A.) (1974) (2)
- Indigenous taxonomies and decision-making systems of rice farmers in South India. (1995) (2)
- Kpelle farming through Kpelle eyes. (1995) (2)
- That focus on the 'other 40%': a myth of development. (1980) (2)
- Social Change in Larteh, Ghana. (1968) (2)
- Tinker, tiller, technical change: peoples' technology and innovation off the farm. (1995) (2)
- Ori Olokun: A New Art Center (1969) (2)
- Monica Wilson (1908–1982) and social change (2006) (2)
- Musuku: Golden Links with Our Past (2001) (2)
- From ecology through economics to ethnoscience: changing perceptions on natural resource management. (1995) (2)
- Government and Politics in the Akuapem State 1730–1850 . By K. A. Kwamena-Poh. London: Longman, 1973 (Legon History Series). Pp. xiii+177, bibl., maps. £3. (1975) (1)
- Africa in the wider world : the inter-relationship of area and comparative studies (1967) (1)
- Taking farmers' knowledge and technology seriously: upland rice production in the Philippines. (1995) (1)
- Local perceptions and adaptation to climate change: a perspective from Western India. (2012) (1)
- Introduction: Anthropology, Development, and Change in East Africa (2019) (1)
- Harambee Movement in Kenya: Self‐Help, Development and Education among the Kamba of Kitui District. MARTIN J. D. HILL (1994) (1)
- Good intentions, bad memories, and troubled capital: American Indian knowledge and action in renewable energy projects. (2012) (1)
- Can we learn from the past? Policy history and climate change in Bangladesh. (2012) (1)
- Climate change and forest conservation: a REDD flag for Central African forest people? (2012) (1)
- Africa South of the Sahara 1977-78 (1978) (1)
- Interview with David Brokensha (2006) (1)
- Book Review:Uses and Abuses of Political Power: A Case Study of Continuity and Change in the Politics of Ghana. Maxwell Owusu (1972) (1)
- Mobilizing knowledge to build adaptive capacity: lessons from southern Mozambique. (2012) (1)
- Kofi in search of a job (1969) (1)
- Indigenous decision-making systems - a key in understanding structural change in American agriculture. (1995) (1)
- Administration in Mbere: portrait of a rural Kenyan division (1971) (1)
- David Welsh. The Rise and Fall of Apartheid (2010) (1)
- "See-for-yourself": some problems in the use of demonstration tours to promote agricultural development. (1980) (1)
- Anthropological Research, Action, and Education in Modern Nations: With Special Reference to the U.S.A. [and Comments and Reply] (1968) (1)
- Agencies, goals and clients: A Cross-cultural analysis (1972) (1)
- Women of Tropical Africa edited by Denise Paulme Berkeley, University of California Press, 1963. Pp. ix + 312. $6.50. (1964) (1)
- Planning for Population Change in Kenya: An Anthropological Perspective (2019) (1)
- Prelims - The Cultural Dimension of Development (1995) (0)
- Small Scale Development in the Sahel? (1986) (0)
- The Anthropologist and Project Consultancies (1980) (0)
- II Other Centers (1966) (0)
- II Other Programs (1965) (0)
- Traditional Art of the Ivory Coast, the Upper Volta, and Mali: The Sylvia and Michael Horowitz Collection (1979) (0)
- I Major Centers (1965) (0)
- Prelims - Climate Change and Threatened Communities (2012) (0)
- Books Received (1967) (0)
- Conclusion: some reflections on indigenous knowledge and climate change. (2012) (0)
- Book reviews (2001) (0)
- Introduction - Climate Change and Threatened Communities (2012) (0)
- Isaac Schapera FRSSAf (2004) (0)
- Keto E. Mshigeni (ed.), Traditional Medicinal Plants . Dar es Salaam: Dar es Salaam University Press (distributed in the UK by African Books Collective Ltd, Oxford), 1991, 391 pp., £21.50, ISBN 9976 60 229 4 paperback. (1994) (0)
- I Major Centers (1965) (0)
- EDUCATION AND CULTURE: The Fortunate Few: A Study of Secondary Schools and Students in the Ivory Coast. Remi Clignet and Philip Foster. (1968) (0)
- Back Matter - Climate Change and Threatened Communities (2012) (0)
- Book reviews (1988) (0)
- Back matter - The Cultural Dimension of Development (1995) (0)
- Political Anthropology: Cultural and Political Aspects of Rural Transformation: A Case Study of Eastern Nigeria. DAVID R. SMOCK and AUDREY C. SMOCK (1973) (0)
- Aapuupayuu (the weather warms up): climate change and the Eeyouch (Cree) of northern Quebec. (2012) (0)
- An African World: The Basongye Village of Lupupa Ngye by Alan P. Merriam (2009) (0)
- Local knowledge and technology innovation in a changing world: traditional fishing communities in Tam Giang Cau Hai lagoon, Vietnam. (2012) (0)
- British Tanganyika, An Essay and Documents on District Administration. By Heussler Robert. (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1971. Pp. 154. $6.75.) (1972) (0)
- The Freemen of Meru. Anton Nelson (1969) (0)
- George B. Silberbauer. Hunter and Habitat in the Central Kalahari Desert. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 330 pp. Illus., maps, tables, biblio., index. $39.50 hardcover; $14.50 paperback. (1983) (0)
- Jack Glazier, Land and the Uses of Tradition among the Mbeere of Kenya . Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1985, 334 pp., £30.50 hardback, £14.75 paperback, ISBN 0 8191 4949 7 hardback, 0 8191 4950 0 paperback. (1988) (0)
- Common Property Resources (2021) (0)
- Pierre Fatumbi Verger, Ewé: the use of plants in Yoruba society . Rio de Janeiro: Odebrecht, 1995, 744 pp., ISBN 85 7164 514 0. (1997) (0)
- How land reform is affecting the Mbeere of Central Kenya (1974) (0)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Kinship and Marriage among the Anlo Ewe. G. K. Nukunya. (1970) (0)
- The Bono concept of measure - an essential factor in formal and nonformal educational programs. (1980) (0)
- Contemporary Change in Traditional Societies. Volume I: Introduction and African Tribes. JULIAN H. STEWARD, ed (1968) (0)
- III Summer Programs, 1966 (1966) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the (American) African Studies Association (1965) (0)
- Social/Cultural Anthropology:The African Poor: A History. John Iliffe (1988) (0)
- Studies in Rural Capitalism in West Africa. (1971) (0)
- Letters to the Editor (1961) (0)
- Ethnology: White Society in Black Africa: The French of Senegal. RITA CRUISE O'BRIEN (1974) (0)
- Annual Meeting of the (American) African Studies Association (1965) (0)
- 97. Collecting Shellfish in Ghana (1964) (0)
- Chief Akrofi of Larteh, 1885-1900 (1964) (0)
- Social vulnerability, climatic variability, and uncertainty in rural Ethiopia: a study of South Wollo and Oromiya Zones of eastern Amhara Region. (2012) (0)
- Traditional Medicinal Plants (2020) (0)
- Social Change at Larteh, Ghana. (1967) (0)
- Common property resources. Satellite paper. (1987) (0)
- Farm labour in California (1976) (0)
- Rhodesian Stone Carvings in the U.S. (1976) (0)
- A Study of Larteh, Ghana (1963) (0)
- Ethnoscience in applied anthropology. (1980) (0)
- Ethnology: The Fourth World: Victims of Group Oppression: Eight Reports from the Field Work of the Minority Rights Group. BEN WHITAKER (1974) (0)
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