Summary Of Deborah Rose's An Indigenous Philosophical Ecology

Deborah Rose endeavors to demonstrate that Indigenous knowledge can be intertwined with the knowledge set forth by Western philosophy in her article “An Indigenous Philosophical Ecology: Situating the Human.” She reinforces and analyzes Val Plumwood’s argument that anthropology holds a role in re-situating the human ecologically. Specifically, Rose seeks to place the human within an Indigenous philosophical ecology. Rose refers to Julie Cruikshank and Ilya Prigogine, as their ideas recognize the significance of infiltrating Western paradigms, and create potential spaces for Indigenous knowledge to interact with Western knowledge. Rose’s personal observations supporting her claim come from her research in Australia’s Northern Territory and she