The Pari Dialogues Essays in Indigenous Kowledge and Western Science: Volume 2

This volume explores the nature of knowledge systems from the perspective of Western science, as well as from a variety of indigenous traditions. In particular, it calls into question the extreme position that assumes that Western science represents the essential truth about the cosmos with indigenous traditions being dismissed as no more than myths and stories. The preface by the book's editor, F. David Peat, (Blackfoot Physics: A Journey Into the Native American Universe) presents an overview of the content and arguments in the book, which include the issue of belittling traditional knowledge systems and the oppression suffered by traditional societies at the hands of colonizers; astronomy, the oldest human science, as written from a Navajo perspective, but including the views of other Native American groups; and an overview of the evolution of modern science beginning at the time of the Greeks.