Traditional Knowledge in Modern India Preservation, Promotion, Ethical Access and Benefit Sharing Mechanisms /

• Main Author: Sengupta, Nirmal (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Knowledge management.; Ethnicity.; Culture.; Knowledge Management.; Ethnicity Studies.; Sociology of Culture.

This book demonstrates how traditional knowledge can be connected to the modern world. Human knowledge of housing, health and agriculture dates back thousands of years, with old wisdom developing and becoming modern. But in the past few decades, global communities have increasingly become aware that...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Manufacture Of The 'Traditional'
• 2. Global Mechanism of Protection and Sharing
• 3. Traditional Knowledge and Basic Needs
• 4. Biodiversity and Genetic Resources
• 5. Traditional Knowledge in Manufacture and Industries
• 6. Traditional Cultural Expressions, Expressions Of Folklore
• 7. Traditional Knowledge in Miscellaneous Other Areas
• 8. Conclusion.