Indigenous Knowledge, Natural Resource Management and Development: The Konda Reddi Experience

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The present volume documents the rich indigenous knowledge, local practices of natural resource management and common property resources, and relates them to the process of development among the Konda Reddi of Andhra Pradesh, India. The Konda redid is one of the Primitive Tribal Groups (PTGs) inhabiting the North Eastern Ghat region of Andhra Pradesh for centurines and primarily subsisting on swidden agriculture. Even now the Konda redid habitat is in the midst of thick forests and on steep mountains, ensuring their close proximity with nature. The Konda redid â€“nature interaction is reflected in their rich heritage of indigenous knowledge that has been transmitted orally from generation to generation. The volume documents the redid knowledge of forest and forest produce, wildlife, agriculture, animal husbandry and ethno-veterinary practices, ethno-medicine, insects and flies, food and food reserves, etc. in their present form. The volume also throws light on the natural resource management and common property resources of the Konda Reddi. An attempt has also been made in this volume to relate indigenous knowledge with resource management and development among them. The volume shall be of special interest to scholars in the fields of anthropology, ethno-biology, environmental science, and also to the NGOs and development administra-tors working among the tribes.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kamal K Misra

Kamal K. Misra is Professor and Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. He had his academic training at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar; Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi; and the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom. He is also a recipient of commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship and the Fulbright Fellowship. Dr. Misra has taught at Utkal University, the University of Hyderabad and at Austin College, Texas, USA. He specializes in Environmental Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics and Theory in anthropology. He has extensively carried out fieldwork in Northeast, Central and South Indian tribal and rural communities. His publications include Social Structure0 and Change among the Ho of Orissa (1987), Tribal Elite and Social Transformation (1994), Text Book of Anthropological Linguistics (2000), and Peoples and Environment in India (2001), co-edited with M.L.K. Murty. He has over 50 research papers published in national and international journals, and book chapters. Dr. Misra is on the Board of Editors of Indian Anthropologist, and Man and Life.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kishore K. Basa

K.K. Basa, a Gold Medalist in H.S.C. Exam. (1973) in Orissa as well as B. A. (History Hons.) Exam. (1977) from Utkal University, did his M.A. in History (1979) from Delhi University and M.A. (Private) in Anthropology (1984) from Utkal University. He is selected for the Commonwealth Post-Doctoral Felowship (1999-2000) at the University of Cambridge, U.K.