scholarly journals Indigenous Knowledge Practices and Community Adaptation to Coastal Flooding in Ada East District of Ghana

Hydrology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Seth Cudjoe ◽  
Samuel Kwabla Alorvor
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Coastal Flooding ◽  
Community Adaptation ◽  
Knowledge Practices

scholarly journals Contemporary Art Practice and Indigenous Knowledge

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-128
Author(s):  
Gerald McMaster
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Communal Sharing ◽  
Cultural Hero ◽  
The Way

AbstractIndigenous artists are introducing traditional knowledge practices to the contemporary art world. This article discusses the work of selected Indigenous artists and relays their contribution towards changing art discourses and understandings of Indigenous knowledge. Anishinaabe artist Norval Morrisseau led the way by introducing ancient mythos; the gifted Carl Beam enlarged his oeuvre with ancient building practices; Peter Clair connected traditional Mi'kmaq craft and colonial influence in contemporary basketry; and Edward Poitras brought to life the cultural hero Coyote. More recently, Beau Dick has surprised international art audiences with his masks; Christi Belcourt’s studies of medicinal plants take on new meaning in paintings; Bonnie Devine creates stories around canoes and baskets; Adrian Stimson performs the trickster/ruse myth in the guise of a two-spirited character; and Lisa Myers’s work with the communal sharing of food typifies a younger generation of artists re-engaging with traditional knowledge.

Lay Expertise, Botanical Science, and Botanic Gardens as “Contact Zones”

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katja Neves
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Botanic Gardens ◽  
Contact Zones ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Direct Outcome

Botanic gardens came into existence in the late 1500s to document, study, and preserve plants originating from all over the world. The scientific field of botany was a direct outcome of these developments. From the 1600s onward, botanic gardens also paid key roles in acclimatizing plants across distinct ecosystems and respective climate zones. This often entailed the appropriation of Indigenous systems of plant expertise that were then used without recognition within the parameters of scientific botanical expertise. As such, botanic gardens operated as contact zones of unequal power dynamics between European and Indigenous knowledge systems. Botanic gardens were intimately embroiled with the global expansion of European colonialism and processes of empire building. They helped facilitate the establishment of cash-crop systems around the world, which effectively amounted to the extractive systems of plant wealth accumulation that characterize the modern European colonial enterprise. In the mid-20th century, botanic gardens began to take on leading roles in the conservation of plant biodiversity while also attending to issues of social equity and sustainable development. Relationships between lay expertise and scientific knowledge acquired renewed significance in this context, as did discussions of the knowledge politics that these interactions entailed. As a consequence of these transformations, former colonial exchanges within the botanical garden world between Indigenous knowledge practices and their appropriation by science came under scrutiny in the final decades of the 20th century. Efforts to decolonize botanic gardens and their knowledge practices emerged in the second decade of the 20th century.

Joe Gumbula, the Inaugural Liya-ŋärra’mirri Visiting Fellow

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Marcia Langton
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
Literary Legacy

AbstractThis is my account of collaborating with Joseph Neparrŋa Gumbula and, in tribute to him and his teaching and scholarship, a discussion of the methodological considerations for teaching and research-based teaching of Yolŋu culture. By privileging the agency and ontology of exegetes such as Gumbula and working in partnership, Yolŋu knowledge has become a part of the modern academic canon as well as a literary legacy for Yolŋu people. The invariable context of the scholarly encounter with Indigenous knowledge is an intercultural one attended by significant historical problems from experiences of the colonial and postcolonial capture of most indigenous societies in modern nation states. Indigenous exegetes hold knowledge systems that exist in situ, in places held in long traditions of customary land tenure and jural principles that predate colonial and postcolonial systems, and inherited in each generation by a few honoured and remarkable people who take up the arduous responsibility of learning and transmitting knowledge practices and their spoken, sung and performed vehicles of expression.

Preservation and Use of Indigenous Knowledge Practices in Public Libraries in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Kehinde Abayomi Owolabi ◽  
Diodemise Ese Ovwasa ◽  
Taiwo Bosede Ajayi ◽  
Mojisola Omowumi Odewale
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Knowledge Practices

scholarly journals INTEGRATING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE PRACTICES INTO AGRICULTURAL EXTENSIO N EDUCATION IN LUANO DISTRICT OF CENTRAL ZAMBIA.

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
pp. 178-190
Author(s):  
Wilmur Simatimbe ◽  
◽  
EmmyH Mbozi ◽  
Lynette Hambulo
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Practices

Indigenous knowledge, practices and preferences in control of gastrointestinal nematodes in Bonga and Horro sheep of Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 110-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Solomon Shiferaw Tufa ◽  
Johann Sölkner ◽  
Gábor Mészáros ◽  
Aynalem Haile ◽  
Joram Mwacharo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Gastrointestinal Nematodes ◽  
Knowledge Practices

scholarly journals EFFECTIVENESS OFINDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE ON CONTROL PRACTICES OF SHEEP AND GOAT DISEASES AND PEST AMONG FARMERS IN IKOLE EKITI, EKITI STATE, NIGERIA

AGROFOR ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunday Idowu OGUNJIMI ◽  
Oluwabunmi Hope OLU-AJAYI ◽  
Olajumoke Olanrewaju ALABI ◽  
Chinewe Mariam EGBUNONU
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Extension Agents ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
Inadequate Information ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship

The study attempts to investigate the level of access, use and effectiveness of indigenous knowledge practices in controlling diseases and pests in sheep and goats among goat and sheep farmers in Ikole-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria. Data were gathered through interviews scheduled on 90 goat and sheep farmers. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics tools of frequencies, percentages and means to describe parameters such as age, sex, household size, educational qualification, and farm size. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship between the dependent variable and independent variables. The results revealed that the mean age of the respondents was 58 years and 63.3% of the goat and sheep farmers were females. The farmers in the study area had low contact with extension workers. The main sources of information were family members, friends and neighbours, and radio. Using sandpaper leaf for mange infection and palm oil for bloat was ranked highly effective. The constraint with the highest percentage was inadequate information of the technique used. Based on the result of the Pearson correlation, accessibility had a positive and significant relationship with effective usage of indigenous knowledge practices. Sequel to the findings of the study, it was recommended that agricultural extension services in Ekiti State should make extension agents available in rural areas to educate the farmers on various indigenous knowledge practices.

Indigenous knowledge codification of African traditional medicine: Inhibited by status quo based on secrecy?

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Akwe Masango
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Traditional Medicine ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Theoretical Research ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Knowledge Practices ◽  
African Traditional Medicine ◽  
The Status

This paper is located within global debates about the codification of indigenous knowledge (IK) practices vis-à-vis traditional medicine in Africa. Following a theoretical research based on an extensive literature review, the paper questions whether it is possible to codify all elements embedded in Africa’s indigenous knowledge practices in traditional medicine following that the medicine encompasses esoteric and non-esoteric elements. There is a persistent plea for the elements of Africa’s indigenous knowledge practices in traditional medicine to be codified and to desist from its status-quo phenomena of secrecy for posterity. Within Africa’s indigenous knowledge (IK) practices in traditional medicine are certain aspects that it may not be possible to codify. The non-esoteric aspect of African traditional medicine can be codified as it encompasses no secret, while the esoteric aspect may not be codified as it is considered to be secret for a select few traditional healers who exploit it for livelihood. The raison d’être for the examination stems from the notion that Africa’s indigenous knowledge practices in traditional medicine has a high livelihood potential, hence needs to be protected. Traditional healers have over generations fostered relationships with other groups, creating a complex web of high levels of cooperation, exchange and support that are essential for livelihood. Their fast erosion due to internal and external factors poses a serious threat to livelihood development in the subregion. The lack of codification of Africa’s indigenous knowledge practices in traditional medicine gives an urge to western pharmaceutical companies, who make huge profits from indigenous knowledge of medicinal plants. With further theoretical research, the paper exposes the esoteric and non-esoteric elements that encompass African traditional medicinal plants and the possible reasons why the status-quo based on secrecy persists within the esoteric aspects of the medicinal plant practices and how the status-quo may be uplifted within intellectual property rights (IPR) in the form of patent and other approaches for posterity.

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