Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Site Tools

  • AAAS
  • Subscribe
  • Feedback

Site Search

Search Advanced

Science 7 January 2000:
Vol. 287. no. 5450, pp. 44 - 45
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5450.44
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Essays on Science and Society

Also see the archival list of the Essays on Science and Society.

ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY:
Will Tribal Knowledge Survive the Millennium?

Paul Alan Cox

We do not know at the beginning of this new millennium if ethnobotanists and anthropologists will be able to rescue most of the indigenous knowledge systems before they are lost forever. Cox describes the importance of knowledge from many cultures in finding new therapeutic drugs and his experiences as an ethnobotanist.

The author is at the National Tropical Botanical Garden, Post Office Box 340, Lawai, Kauai, Hawaii 96765, USA. E-mail: paulcox{at}ntbg.org

Read the Full Text


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
A BRIEF COMMUNICATION: Hepatocytes Detoxify Atuna racemosa Extract.
E. J. Buenz (2006)
Experimental Biology and Medicine 231, 1739-1743
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Landscape legacies of the African diaspora in Brazil.
J. A. Carney and R. A. Voeks (2003)
Progress in Human Geography 27, 139-152
   Abstract »    PDF »
Prostratin: activation of latent HIV-1 expression suggests a potential inductive adjuvant therapy for HAART.
J. Kulkosky, D. M. Culnan, J. Roman, G. Dornadula, M. Schnell, M. R. Boyd, and R. J. Pomerantz (2001)
Blood 98, 3006-3015
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »
Selected Complementary Health Practice Journal Articles by Topic.
(2001)
Complementary Health Practice Review 6, 255-262
   PDF »

E-Letters:

Read all E-Letters

Scientific Method vs "Knowledge"
Jim O'Neil
Science Online, 8 Feb 2000 [Full text]
Equity of Knowledge
Deep Narayan Pandey
Science Online, 11 Sep 2000 [Full text]
Should the Local Knowledge Survive? For Whom?
Sudhirendar Sharma, Ph.D.
Science Online, 17 Jan 2001 [Full text]
Preserving Tribal Knowledge Through the Millennium
'Afa K. Palu
Science Online, 19 Dec 2007 [Full text]

To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)