Sandra Harding is Professor of Education and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her many books include Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities, also published by Duke University Press; The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies; Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies; and The Science Question in Feminism.

Preface ixAcknowledgments xvIntroduction. Beyond Postcolonial Theory: Two Undertheorized Perspectives on Science and Technology 1I. Counterhistories 331. Discovering the Oriental West / John M. Hobson 392. Long-Distance Corporations, Big Sciences, and the Geography of Knowledge / Steven J. Harris 613. Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery / Mary Terrall 844. Maria Sibylla Merian: A Woman of Art and Science / Ella Reitsma 1035. Prospecting for Drugs: European Naturalists in the West Indies / Londa Schiebinger 1106. Science and Colonial Expansion: The Role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Lucille H. Brockway 1277. Out of Africa: Colonial Rice History in the Black Atlantic / Judith Carney 140II. Other Cultures' Sciences 1518. Navigation in the Western Carolines: A Traditional Science / Ward H. Goodenough 1599. Science for the West, Myth for the Rest? / Colin Scott 17510. Ecolinguistics, Linguistic Diversity, Ecological Diversity / Peter Mühlhäusler 19811. Gender and Indigenous Knowledge / Helen Appleton, Maria E. Fernandez, Catherine L. M. Hill, and Consuelo Quiroz 21112. Whose Knowledge, Whose Genes, Whose Rights? / Stephen B. Brush 22513. The Role of the Global Network of Indigenous Knowledge Resource Centers in the Conservation of Cultural and Biological Diversity / D. Michael Warren 247III. Residues and Reinventions14. Development and the Anthropology of Modernity / Arturo Escobar 26915. Tradition and Gender in Modernization Theory / Catherine V. Scott 29016. Security and Survival: Why Do Poor People Have Many Children? / Betsy Hartmann 31017. Call for a New Approach / Committee on Women, Population, and the Environment 31818. The Human Genome Diversity Project: What Went Wrong? / Jenny Reardon 32119. Bioprospecting's Representational Dilemma / Cori Hayden 343IV. Moving Forward: Possible Pathways 36520. Islamic Science: The Contemporary Debate / Ziauddin Sardar 38321. Mining Civilizational Knowledge / Susantha Goonatilake 38022. Toward the Integration of Knowledge Systems: Challenges to Thought and Practice / Catherine A. Odora Hoppers 38823. Human Well-Being and Federal Science: What's the Connection? / Daniel Sarewitz 40324. Science in a Era of Globalization: Alternative Pathways / David J. Hess 41925. Civic Science for Sustainability: Reframing the Role of Experts, Policymakers, and Citizens in Environmental Governance / Karen Bäckstrand 439Copyright Acknowledgments 459Index 463