Social Work with Older People

Mark Lymbery

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Social Work with Older People

Mark Lymbery

(2005)

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ISBN: 978-1-84787-784-0
Edition: 1
Edition Statement: First Edition
Language: English
Pages: 256
Subjects: Social work

Abstract

This book provides an up-to-date and authoritative overview of the development of social work with older people in the UK. The coherent structure draws together the key themes involved in working with older people, and clearly demonstrates how to translate these into real-life practice.

Key features of the book include:

- Establishes an understanding of the policy context within which social work takes place, with particular attention to key topics such as inter-professional collaboration and ethics.

- Goes beyond other textbooks to challenge the restricted nature of social work practice, and adopts a positive view of its potential to benefit older people.

- An engaging and practice-led approach which includes student-friendly features and detailed practice scenarios.

- Satisfies the curriculum benchmarks and National Occupational Standards that structure social work training and practice.

Written by a leading academic, this is a key text for social work trainees. Its analytical depth will ensure that it will also be valuable for students undertaking post-qualifying courses, and for those in related disciplines such as health and community care, social policy and social gerontology. Its practice-based and inter-professional approach will mean it is also useful for health and social care practitioners seeking to improve the quality of practice with older people.

`Drawing on both theory and research as well as the author's clear knowledge of current practice, this book is able to deal with practice realities in ways which many texts cannot. It offers social workers realistic options for how to approach their work' - Karen Postle, University of East Anglia

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price

List of abbreviations x

Dedication xii

Acknowledgments xii

Preface xiii

ROBERT CHAMBERS AND PAUL RICHARDS

Introduction xv

THE EDITORS

PART I INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

1. Ethnobotanical Knowledge Systems - A resource for

meeting rural development goals 1

JANISB. ALCORN

2. Taman Obat Keluarga (TOGA): Indigenous Indonesian

medicine for self-reliance 13

L. JAN SLIKKERVEER AND MADY K.L. SLIKKERVEER

3. Neem in Niger: A new context for a system of indigenous

knowledge 35

EDWARD B. RADCLIFFE, GREGOIRE OUEDRAOGO,

SONIA E. PATTEN, DAVID W. RAGSDALE AND PETER P. STRZOK

4. The Lari Soils Project in Peru - A methodology for

combining cognitive and behavioural research 71

DAVID W. GUILLET, LOU ANN A FURBEE, JON SAN DOR AND

ROBERT BENFER

5. Indigenous Soil Classification Systems in Northern Zambia 82

CAROL KERVEN, HILDE DOLVA AND RAGNHILD RENNA

6. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agroforestry Projects

in the Central Hills of Nepal 88

ERIC P. RUSTEN AND MICHAEL A. GOLD

7. Indigenous Communication and Indigenous Knowledge 112

PAUL A. MUNDYANDJ. LIN COMPTON

8. Incorporating Farmers' Knowledge in International Rice

Research 124

SAM FUJISAKA

PART II INDIGENOUS DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS

9. Raised Beds and Plant Disease Management 140

H. DAVID THURSTON AND JOANNE M. PARKER

10. Indigenous Knowledge and Famine Relief in the Horn

of Africa 147

PETER J.C. WALKER

vi The cultural dimension of development

11. Indigenous Decision-making in Agriculture - A reflection

of gender and socioeconomic status in the Philippines 155

VIRGINIA D. NAZAREA-SANDOVAL

12. Forest Gardens of Highland Sri Lanka - An indigenous

system for reclaiming deforested land 174

YVONNE EVERETT

13. Indigenous Decision-making Systems - A key in

understanding structural change in American agriculture 185

ROBERTZABAWA AND CHRISTINA H. CLADWIN

14. Indigenous Taxonomies and Decisioiwnaking Systems of

Rice Farmers in South India 202

BHAKTHAVATSALAM RAJASEKARAN AND D. MICHAEL WARREN

15. Expert Systems for Indigenous Knowledge in Crop Varietal

Selection 211

SURESH CHANDRA BABU, D. MICHAEL WARREN AND

BHAKTHAVATSALAM RAJASEKARAN

16. Como Se Cura: Patterns of medical choice among working

class families in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico 218

MICHAEL B. WHITEFORD

PART III INDIGENOUS ORGANISATIONS

17. Local Traditions and Community Forestry Management:

A view from Nepal 231

DONALD A. MESSERSCHMIDT

18. Indigenous Systems of Natural Resource Management

among Pastoralists of Arid and Semi-arid Africa 245

MARYAM NIAMIR

19. A Socioecological Analysis of Balinese Water Temples 258

/. STEPHEN LANSING AND JAMES N. KREMER

20. Kpelle Farming through Kpelle Eyes 269

JOHN GAY

21. Use of Local Knowledge in Managing the Niger River

Fisheries Project 286

THOMAS L. PRICE

PART IV INDIGENOUS EXPERIMENTATION AND

INNOVATIONS

22. Farmers Who Experiment: An untapped resource for

agricultural research and development 296

ROBERTRHOADES AND ANTHONY BEBBINGTON

Contents vii

23. Phytopractices: Indigenous horticultural approaches to

plant cultivation and improvement in tropical regions 308

YILDIZ AUMEERUDDY

24. Farmer Know-how and Communication for Technology

Transfer: CTTA in Niger 323

CONSTANCE M. McCORKLE AND GAIL McCLURE

25. A Trans-local Adaptation of Indigenous Knowledge in

Duck Farming in Indonesia 333

PATRICIA J. VON DAL

26. Tinker, Tiller, Technical Change: Peoples' technology and

innovation off the farm 340

MATTHEW GAMSER AND HELEN APPLETON

27. Using Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Design of

On-farm Experiments - A Philippine case 348

CLIVE LIGHTFOOT

28. Taking Farmers' Knowledge and Technology Seriously:

Upland rice production in the Philippines 354

SAM FUJISAKA

29. Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Djenne, Mali 371

ALISON AYERS

30. Using Indigenous Knowledge in a Subsistence Society

of Sudan 385

ROGER W. SHARLAND

31. Kpelle Steelmaking: An indigenous high technology

in Liberia 396

GORDON C. THOMASSON

32. Survival under Stress: Socioecological perspectives on

farmers' innovations and risk adjustments 407

ANIL K. GUPTA

33. Transfer of Indigenous Knowledge and Protection of the

Agricultural Environment in Eastern Africa 419

KEESJ. STIGTER

PART V INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND

INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

34. CIKARD: A global approach to documenting indigenous

knowledge for development 426

D. MICHAEL WARREN AND GERARD McKlERNAN

35. LEAD: The Leiden Ethnosystems and Development

Programme 435

L. JANSLIKKERVEER AND WIM H.J.C. DECHERING

viii The cultural dimension of development

36. CIRAN: Networking for indigenous knowledge 441

GUUS W. VON LIEBENSTEIN, L. JANSLIKKERVEER AND

D. MICHAEL WARREN

37. IUCN and Indigenous Peoples: How to promote

sustainable development 445

JEFFREY A. McNEELY

38. International Institute for Environment and Development

(IIED) and Rapid Rural Appraisal for Indigenous

Sustainable Agriculture 451

JENNIFER McCRACKEN

39. Agricultural Development with a Focus on Local

Resources: ILEIA's view on indigenous knowledge 454

BERTUSHAVERKORT

40. The Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and

Development (CLADES) - Fostering rural development

based on indigenous knowledge 458

MIGUEL A. ALTIERIAND ANDRES YURJEVIC

41. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and UNESCO's Man

and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme 464

MALCOLM HAD LEY AND KATHRIN SCHRECKENBERG

42. Sustainable Development and Indigenous Knowledge

Systems in Nigeria: The role of the Nigerian Institute of

Social and Economic Research (NISER) 475

ADEDOTUN O. PHILLIPS AND S. OGUNTUNJI TITILOLA

43. The Regional Program for the Promotion of Indigenous

Knowledge in Asia (REPPIKA) 479

JUAN M. FLA VIER, ANTONIO DE JESUS AND CONRADO S. NA VARRO

PART VI BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS ON INDIGENOUS

KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

44. Ethnoveterinary Medicine and Development - A review

of the literature 488

EVELYNMATHIAS-MUNDYAND CONSTANCEM. McCORKLE

45. Indigenous Knowledge as Reflected in Agriculture and

Rural Development 499

S. OGUNTUNJI TIT/LOLA AND DAVID MARSDEN

46. From Ecology through Economics to Ethnoscience:

Changing perceptions on natural resource management 505

OLIVIA N. MUCHENA AND ERIC VANEK

47. INDAKS: A bibliography and database on indigenous

agricultural knowledge systems and sustainable

development in the tropics 512

L. JAN SLIKKERVEER

Bibliography 517

Index 579

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Section Title	Page	Action	Price
List of abbreviations x
Dedication xii
Acknowledgments xii
Preface xiii
ROBERT CHAMBERS AND PAUL RICHARDS
Introduction xv
THE EDITORS
PART I INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
1. Ethnobotanical Knowledge Systems - A resource for
meeting rural development goals 1
JANISB. ALCORN
2. Taman Obat Keluarga (TOGA): Indigenous Indonesian
medicine for self-reliance 13
L. JAN SLIKKERVEER AND MADY K.L. SLIKKERVEER
3. Neem in Niger: A new context for a system of indigenous
knowledge 35
EDWARD B. RADCLIFFE, GREGOIRE OUEDRAOGO,
SONIA E. PATTEN, DAVID W. RAGSDALE AND PETER P. STRZOK
4. The Lari Soils Project in Peru - A methodology for
combining cognitive and behavioural research 71
DAVID W. GUILLET, LOU ANN A FURBEE, JON SAN DOR AND
ROBERT BENFER
5. Indigenous Soil Classification Systems in Northern Zambia 82
CAROL KERVEN, HILDE DOLVA AND RAGNHILD RENNA
6. Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agroforestry Projects
in the Central Hills of Nepal 88
ERIC P. RUSTEN AND MICHAEL A. GOLD
7. Indigenous Communication and Indigenous Knowledge 112
PAUL A. MUNDYANDJ. LIN COMPTON
8. Incorporating Farmers' Knowledge in International Rice
Research 124
SAM FUJISAKA
PART II INDIGENOUS DECISION-MAKING SYSTEMS
9. Raised Beds and Plant Disease Management 140
H. DAVID THURSTON AND JOANNE M. PARKER
10. Indigenous Knowledge and Famine Relief in the Horn
of Africa 147
PETER J.C. WALKER
vi The cultural dimension of development
11. Indigenous Decision-making in Agriculture - A reflection
of gender and socioeconomic status in the Philippines 155
VIRGINIA D. NAZAREA-SANDOVAL
12. Forest Gardens of Highland Sri Lanka - An indigenous
system for reclaiming deforested land 174
YVONNE EVERETT
13. Indigenous Decision-making Systems - A key in
understanding structural change in American agriculture 185
ROBERTZABAWA AND CHRISTINA H. CLADWIN
14. Indigenous Taxonomies and Decisioiwnaking Systems of
Rice Farmers in South India 202
BHAKTHAVATSALAM RAJASEKARAN AND D. MICHAEL WARREN
15. Expert Systems for Indigenous Knowledge in Crop Varietal
Selection 211
SURESH CHANDRA BABU, D. MICHAEL WARREN AND
BHAKTHAVATSALAM RAJASEKARAN
16. Como Se Cura: Patterns of medical choice among working
class families in the city of Oaxaca, Mexico 218
MICHAEL B. WHITEFORD
PART III INDIGENOUS ORGANISATIONS
17. Local Traditions and Community Forestry Management:
A view from Nepal 231
DONALD A. MESSERSCHMIDT
18. Indigenous Systems of Natural Resource Management
among Pastoralists of Arid and Semi-arid Africa 245
MARYAM NIAMIR
19. A Socioecological Analysis of Balinese Water Temples 258
/. STEPHEN LANSING AND JAMES N. KREMER
20. Kpelle Farming through Kpelle Eyes 269
JOHN GAY
21. Use of Local Knowledge in Managing the Niger River
Fisheries Project 286
THOMAS L. PRICE
PART IV INDIGENOUS EXPERIMENTATION AND
INNOVATIONS
22. Farmers Who Experiment: An untapped resource for
agricultural research and development 296
ROBERTRHOADES AND ANTHONY BEBBINGTON
Contents vii
23. Phytopractices: Indigenous horticultural approaches to
plant cultivation and improvement in tropical regions 308
YILDIZ AUMEERUDDY
24. Farmer Know-how and Communication for Technology
Transfer: CTTA in Niger 323
CONSTANCE M. McCORKLE AND GAIL McCLURE
25. A Trans-local Adaptation of Indigenous Knowledge in
Duck Farming in Indonesia 333
PATRICIA J. VON DAL
26. Tinker, Tiller, Technical Change: Peoples' technology and
innovation off the farm 340
MATTHEW GAMSER AND HELEN APPLETON
27. Using Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Design of
On-farm Experiments - A Philippine case 348
CLIVE LIGHTFOOT
28. Taking Farmers' Knowledge and Technology Seriously:
Upland rice production in the Philippines 354
SAM FUJISAKA
29. Indigenous Soil and Water Conservation in Djenne, Mali 371
ALISON AYERS
30. Using Indigenous Knowledge in a Subsistence Society
of Sudan 385
ROGER W. SHARLAND
31. Kpelle Steelmaking: An indigenous high technology
in Liberia 396
GORDON C. THOMASSON
32. Survival under Stress: Socioecological perspectives on
farmers' innovations and risk adjustments 407
ANIL K. GUPTA
33. Transfer of Indigenous Knowledge and Protection of the
Agricultural Environment in Eastern Africa 419
KEESJ. STIGTER
PART V INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
34. CIKARD: A global approach to documenting indigenous
knowledge for development 426
D. MICHAEL WARREN AND GERARD McKlERNAN
35. LEAD: The Leiden Ethnosystems and Development
Programme 435
L. JANSLIKKERVEER AND WIM H.J.C. DECHERING
viii The cultural dimension of development
36. CIRAN: Networking for indigenous knowledge 441
GUUS W. VON LIEBENSTEIN, L. JANSLIKKERVEER AND
D. MICHAEL WARREN
37. IUCN and Indigenous Peoples: How to promote
sustainable development 445
JEFFREY A. McNEELY
38. International Institute for Environment and Development
(IIED) and Rapid Rural Appraisal for Indigenous
Sustainable Agriculture 451
JENNIFER McCRACKEN
39. Agricultural Development with a Focus on Local
Resources: ILEIA's view on indigenous knowledge 454
BERTUSHAVERKORT
40. The Latin American Consortium on Agroecology and
Development (CLADES) - Fostering rural development
based on indigenous knowledge 458
MIGUEL A. ALTIERIAND ANDRES YURJEVIC
41. Traditional Ecological Knowledge and UNESCO's Man
and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme 464
MALCOLM HAD LEY AND KATHRIN SCHRECKENBERG
42. Sustainable Development and Indigenous Knowledge
Systems in Nigeria: The role of the Nigerian Institute of
Social and Economic Research (NISER) 475
ADEDOTUN O. PHILLIPS AND S. OGUNTUNJI TITILOLA
43. The Regional Program for the Promotion of Indigenous
Knowledge in Asia (REPPIKA) 479
JUAN M. FLA VIER, ANTONIO DE JESUS AND CONRADO S. NA VARRO
PART VI BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS ON INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
44. Ethnoveterinary Medicine and Development - A review
of the literature 488
EVELYNMATHIAS-MUNDYAND CONSTANCEM. McCORKLE
45. Indigenous Knowledge as Reflected in Agriculture and
Rural Development 499
S. OGUNTUNJI TIT/LOLA AND DAVID MARSDEN
46. From Ecology through Economics to Ethnoscience:
Changing perceptions on natural resource management 505
OLIVIA N. MUCHENA AND ERIC VANEK
47. INDAKS: A bibliography and database on indigenous
agricultural knowledge systems and sustainable
development in the tropics 512
L. JAN SLIKKERVEER
Bibliography 517
Index 579