scholarly journals RESTORING OWÉ TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE: A TECHNOLOGICAL JOURNEY OF RECLAMATION

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
J Ola-Busari
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Knowledge Based

This article narrates the paradoxical and ambivalent role of technology in the erosion and restoration of traditional life of the Owé people of Okun-Yoruba of Kogi State of Nigeria. It starts with background information of the Owé people and the description of their traditional knowledge, based on their cultural practices and values.  The second section demonstrates how modernization and the advent of radio and television erode their traditional life and the consequent loss of indigenous knowledge among the younger generations. A third section traces how the loss of indigenous knowledge is gradually being restored through modern technology.  Using the Owé Forum on Facebook and other activities, the efforts of the Owé people of all generations at restoring their cultural values and affirming their identity are highlighted. The article concludes by illustrating how these efforts are leading to revitalization, preservation, documentation and intellectualization of Owé traditional knowledge and culture.

An Ethos of Deconstruction in Multi-Cultural and Multi-Religious Contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 368-385
Author(s):  
Johann-Albrecht Meylahn
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Ethical Norm ◽  
Ethical Conflicts ◽  
Textual Space ◽  
Alternative Practices ◽  
Dominant Narratives

The essay will focus on the role of Derrida’s différance in opening a space for an alternative ethos in religious or cultural plural contexts. In postcolonial contexts individual human rights, as the universal norm, is challenged by religious and cultural traditional practices. Some of the traditional practices are incompatible with individual rights and this is aggravated in a postmodern context as there is no universal meta-narrative to arbitrate between the conflicting practices. The result of this conflict is often a stalemate between the universal rights of individuals, often marginal individuals (children, homosexuals and women), over against religious and cultural values and traditions of the particular local context or religious or cultural group. The question this article focuses on is how deconstruction can help to move beyond such ethical conflicts. The article proposes that deconstruction can offer a way of reading, interpreting and understanding these cultural practices within their contexts, by taking the various practices (texts) within their contexts seriously as there is no beyond the text. This reading creates an inter-textual space between the various dominant narratives for the emergence of an alternative ethos. This emerging ethos is not presented as the ethical norm, but rather as an open, expectant attitude towards all the texts involved. This attitude can maybe open the space for alternative practices beyond the stalemate in multi-religious and multi-cultural contexts.

scholarly journals Local Wisdom Values of Maritime Community in Preserving Marine Resources in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-94
Author(s):  
Sem Touwe
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Customary Laws ◽  
Living Objects

This study identifies and describes the local wisdom carried out by the coastal communities, especially the people of North Seram, Maluku in preserving the island and marine environment as well as the customary institutions in determining and guarding local wisdom of coastal communities to manage marine resources. The marine resource is started to weaken along with the development of modern technology. This paper provides contemporary phenomena regarding the weakness of customary laws and traditional institutions that regulate marine resources, including social values in the form of rituals, representing the relationship between humans and their environment. The protection of marine resources around them will be an important discussion to see the role of government and society in preserving marine and coastal resources. This study used a qualitative approach to produce descriptive explanations from reports, book reviews, and documents that describe theories and information of both past and present. The result is that the local wisdom maintained as superior cultural practices that are beneficial to human survival, especially in maintaining the sustainability and balance between humans and living objects.

scholarly journals Forbidding the Tragedy of Commons; Conserving Indigenous Knowledge through Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Entitlement for Future Generations from the Perspectives of Intergeneration Justice

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.30) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Al-Hanisham Mohd Khalid ◽  
Rohaida Nordi ◽  
Safinaz Mohd Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Core ◽  
Core Issues

Conserving indigenous knowledge (IK) has long been discussed in international fore for more than five decade. The core issues is there is unanimity among scholars, governments, indigenous peoples and local communities on whether and how issue of IK could be harmonise within intellectual property rights law framework particularly copyrights. This paper aims to highlight the issues of conserving indigenous knowledge since indigenous knowledge does not belong to one generation but all generations. Discussion will embark on from the perspective of intellectual property jurisprudence through the works of Henry Reynolds, James Tully and Will Kymlicka. The outcome of this paper demonstrates promising thought into the role of intergeneration justice in protecting indigenous peoples in Malaysia. It is the contention of this paper that perhaps such conditions could apply to traditional knowledge too in addressing the plight of indigenous peoples. 

Folklore and Folklife of American LGBTQIA+ Communities and Queer Culture

2018 ◽  
pp. 936-956
Author(s):  
J. Tyler Chadwell-English ◽  
Simon J. Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Sexual Practices ◽  
Queer Culture ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Composite Nature ◽  
Late Twentieth Century ◽  
Communicative Role

Subject to variation in public discourse, the initialism LGBTQIA+ stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and queer, intersexed, and asexual and allies. Since the late twentieth century, scholars writing about these linked identities referred to it succinctly as queer, because the term represents a deliberately ambiguous reference to nonnormative identities that challenges traditional gender designations. The composite nature of the LGBTQIA+ label raises the central question of how individuals relating to one or more of the identities constitute a community or set of different groups for which folklore and folklife often serve a bonding function and a communicative role of expressing shared distinctive cultural values. Events such as circuit parties, pride festivals, and brunches emerged as pan-queer traditions, while other esoteric traditions of humor, gestures, names, and dress were coded expressions for different groups centered on sexual practices. Much of this folklore and folklife responded to a need for secrecy for stigmatized behavior; as many nonnormative sexual practices become decriminalized, cultural practices emerge to naturalize LGBTQIA+ communities within a multicultural society.

scholarly journals Protection of Traditional Knowledge: The Work and the Role of International Organisations and Conferences

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Asiia Sharifullovna Gazizova
Keyword(s):  
Wound Healing ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Convention On Biological Diversity ◽  
International Level ◽  
International Organisations ◽  
Sustainable Improvement ◽  
Main Work

The concepts of traditional knowledge, indigenous people and indigenous knowledge have gained broad use in international discussions on sustainable improvement. Nevertheless, their use is usually subjected to confusion. There have been numerous attempts to clarify the notions of traditional knowledge, indigenous knowledge and people. Although there are no globally approved definitions, this paper is devoted to analysing the approaches of international organisations to the protection of traditional knowledge. The study discusses the work of the international organisations: WIPO, UNESCO, WHO, WTO and FAO, as well as international conferences: Conference of the Parties of Convention on Biological Diversity and UNCTAD. The examples of traditional knowledge illustrate the paper: use of turmeric for wound healing in India, use the Hoodia plant to suppress hunger during hunting in South Africa and others. It is noted that today, at the international level, there are no instruments that ensure comprehensive protection of traditional knowledge. The author concludes that WIPO and UNESCO currently carry out the main work aimed at providing the protection of traditional knowledge. However, other international organisations and conferences, such as WHO, WTO, FAO, UNCTAD and Conference of the Parties of CBD in their work are also addressed some aspects associated with the preservation of traditional knowledge.

scholarly journals Kimono: elucidating meanings of Japanese textile artifacts for a museum audience

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
SOPHIA LUU ◽  
ELLEN MCKINNEY
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Japanese Culture ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Museum Exhibit ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
University Museum

ABSTRACT The objective of this research was to create museum texts and educational materials for a textiles section of a major year-long university museum exhibit focused on exploring Japanese culture and aesthetics through works of fine and applied art. Little background information about the textiles was available. A sample of historical Japanese kimono, yukata, and obi in a university collection was examined using material culture and semiotics research methods. The motifs present in the textiles were identified and explored for how the motifs represent values relevant to Japanese cultural practices throughout time. In particular, motifs were analyzed for their noted conveyance of a society’s religious and cultural values. Motifs were predominantly botanical, emphasizing the respect for nature within Japanese culture. Other motif categories present included geometric, animals/insects, cultural/everyday objects, and landscape motifs. 104 individual motifs were identified. Symbolic meanings were examined and interpreted alongside present materials, colors, and techniques. The use of material culture and semiotics research methods for analyzing Japanese textiles is mapped in this study.

scholarly journals SYNTHESISATION OF STORY TELLING AND TECHNOLOGY

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
N Mdlalose ◽  
J Mabalane
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Mass Distribution ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
African Identity ◽  
Domestic Setting

Storytelling in the African epistemological context is known for its ability to communicate morals and values, and is instrumental in conflict resolution and peace building. Conversely, the strength of modern technology is on mass distribution of products. However, a relationship that exists between tradition and modern technology has not exhausted its potential of being innovative. In order to contribute to the discourse relating to the role of technology in the preservation, restoration and dissemination of indigenous knowledge, the view presented in this article explores the nature and use of certain technologies and their communication strategies within a personalized domestic setting. Herein traditional content in a technological package is presented. This article therefore, seeks to explore ways that speak to the need to deconstruct African identity and tradition and poses the question ‘Who am I’ as it sits at the heart of being innovative with modern technology.

scholarly journals Water safety in drought: an indigenous knowledge-based qualitative study

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 692-703
Author(s):  
Azadeh Fatehpanah ◽  
Katayoun Jahangiri ◽  
Seyed Hesam Seyedin ◽  
Amir Kavousi ◽  
Hossein Malekinezhad
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Water Safety ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Water Collection ◽  
Quality Water

Abstract The indigenous knowledge of our ancestors provides valuable information on how to prevent negative health impacts on water hygiene in the event of drought. The present study aimed to explore the role of indigenous knowledge in maintaining water safety in drought conditions. A qualitative content analysis method using in-depth semi-structured interviews was used to collect and analyze the data. The current research was carried out from April 2017 to June 2018. A purposive sampling method was used to select 15 participants. Trustworthiness was applied with the Lincoln and Guba approach and data were analyzed using Graneheim and Lundman's method. Two categories including drinking water storage and water collection were extracted from the data. Each category includes different strategies to deal with water. Water storage includes water quantity and water quality. Water collection consists of collection methods and rules. Indigenous knowledge is an indispensable component of community disaster resilience. It can be transferred to other communities and employed to empower affected communities. But using the knowledge without scientific considerations cannot guarantee peoples' health throughout the drought periods.

scholarly journals Effect of Traditional Knowledge System in Sustainable Development and Management of Natural Resources in Meru Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-136
Author(s):  
Stephen Mbae Muthamia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge System ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Traditional Knowledge System ◽  
Sustainable Development And Management

This paper aimed at studying the effect of traditional knowledge system in sustainable development and management of natural resources in Meru community. The study was guided by the following questions: What is the role of indigenous system in the protection and conservation of natural resources in Meru community? What is the role of integrated environmental management frame work in the sustainable development and management of natural resources in Meru community? What is the relationship between participatory decision making, policy maker’s implementation and natural resources users in Meru community? The research was conducted in Meru and Tharaka Nithi Counties and through purposeful sampling had two case studies from each county in Meru community. Data was collected using guided interviews and semi structured questions. The data was collected through a focus group discussion, documents and audio-visual materials. The study reviewed the literature to understand the effect of traditional knowledge system in sustainable development and management of natural resources in Meru community. Theoretical insights and empirical findings from the studies suggest that despite the generalized worldwide trend of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) erosion, substantial pockets of TEK persist in both developing and developed countries. The findings also reinforce previous hypotheses pointing at the importance of TEK systems as reservoirs of experiential knowledge that can provide important insights for the design of adaptation and mitigation strategies to cope with global environmental change in the management of natural resources. Recognition of endogenous management of Indigenous knowledge becomes an enhancing solution to the seemingly mega challenges of community development. Indigenous knowledge is a more secure foundation for sustainable solutions to challenges in developmental issues in communities and in Africa. Advanced technology in Indigenous knowledge (IK) usage and preservation empowers users to improve on pre-existing solutions to a problem, achieve a goal, and most of all improve on the standards of living. Keywords: Traditional knowledge System, development and management, Natural Resources, Meru community

scholarly journals Contribution of Indigenous Knowledge in Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals: A Literature Review

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-121
Author(s):  
Bhavna Sharma ◽  
Reena Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Development Goals

Indigenous knowledge is the traditional knowledge that is unique to a society. Traditional knowledge is also called: ‘local knowledge’, ‘folk knowledge’, ‘people’s knowledge’, ‘traditional wisdom’. This knowledge is passed from generation to generation, usually by word of mouth and cultural customs. It has been the basis for agriculture, health care, food preparation, education, conservation and the other many activities that sustain societies in all over the world. Sustainable development means establishing a balance between socioeconomic development and environmental protection, with traditional knowledge local communities. In 2015, the United Nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals, a set of targets for improving lives while protecting natural resources by the year 2030 and they included indigenous peoples, and acknowledged that there can be no sustainable development without protecting the traditional knowledge. Indigenous knowledge plays an important role in achieving global sustainable development goals through various traditional practices. Therefore, in this study, contribution of various researchers is explored regarding role of indigenous knowledge in achieving sustainable development goals. On the basis of previous studies we found various areas in which indigenous knowledge is used. These areas include; agriculture, health, education, climate change, cultural identity, environmental justice, fisheries, forests and wildlife, natural resources. The use of indigenous knowledge in these sectors helps in achieving of sustainable development goals.

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