Discovering the Oriental West / Long-distance corporations, big sciences, and the geography of knowledge / Heroic narratives of quest and discovery / Maria Sibylla Merian : a woman of art and science / Prospecting for drugs : European naturalists in the West Indies / Science and colonial expansion : the role of the British Royal Botanical Gardens / Out of Africa : colonial rice history in the Black Atlantic / Navigation in the western Carolines : a traditional science / Science for the West, myth for the rest? / Ecolinguistics, linguistic diversity, ecological diversity / Gender and indigenous knowledge / Whose knowledge, whose genes, whose rights? / The role of the global network of indigenous knowledge resource centers in the conservation of cultural and biological diversity / Development and the anthropology of modernity / Tradition and gender in modernization theory / Security and survival : why do poor people have many children? / Call for a new approach / The Human Genome Diversity Project : what went wrong? / Bioprospecting's representational dilemma / Islamic science : the contemporary debate / Mining civilizational knowledge / Towards the integration of knowledge systems : challenges to thought and practice / Human well-being and federal science : what's the connection? / Civic science for sustainability : reframing the role of experts, policymakers, and citizens in environmental governance