01775pab a2200169 454500008004000000100002300040245007500063260000900138300001300147362000800160520127000168650001401438773002201452909001001474999001701484952010401501180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCavalcanti, clovis  aEconomic thinking, traditional ecological knowledge and ethnoeconomics  c2002  ap.39-55.  aJan  aOne of the limitations of economic development - with its emphasis on unlimited growth - is that it is pursued without any considerations as to its implications on ecosystems.  The prevailing economic theories treat the economic process from a purely mechanistic standpoint.  Different ways exist, however, to deal with the choices that humans have to make with respect to the allocation of resources, the distribution of its returns and the fulfilment of purposes of material progress.  Indigenous, aboriginal or native ecological knowledge certainly is one of those ways, although `primitive' peoples are considered brute, ignorant, having nothing to offer modern society in terms of its achieving its economic goals. To understand how `primitive' societies solve their economic problems in a sustainable fashion is a serious challenge in this context.  To that effect, the instruments of economics could should somehow be employed together with the approaches learned from economic anthropology, like those based on Mauss's gift theory.  But a better grasp of this issue could possibly be accomplished with the use of what the late anthropologist Darrell Posey, with whom the author was developing the concept, called ethnoeconomics or ethnoecological economics.  aEconomics  aCurrent Sociology  a52299  c52299d52299  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 50, Issue no: 1pAR52729r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR