THE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE MEDICINAL COMPONENTS OF MORINDA CITRIFOLIA L. (NONI) COMPARED TO SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE AS AN INCOME GENERATION STRATEGY TO LIVELIHOOD

2021 ◽  
Vol 07 (05) ◽  
pp. 806-821
Author(s):  
Ayeh S. ◽  
Arthur E. M. ◽  
Teye E. K ◽  
Adinkrak B.
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Morinda Citrifolia ◽  
Income Generation

The Changing Boundaries of Knowledge Between Māori Awareness and Western Science

Leonardo ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 513-514
Author(s):  
Ian Clothier
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Contemporary Life

Conventionally, indigenous knowledge such as that held by Māori (the indigenous culture of Aotearoa New Zealand) is seen as in total contrast to Western scientific knowledge. In this paper the author puts forward instances where ideology is held in common across cultural borders. A general awareness of facets of shared ideology has been refined, extended and given substance through three curatorial projects involving Dr. Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, a highly respected kaumatua (elder). These took place in Istanbul, Albuquerque and Aotearoa New Zealand. Ethically, acceptance of these commonalities leads to considering the shifting boundary of knowledge in contemporary life.

scholarly journals Northern Scientific Knowledge and Indigenous Knowledge

2021 ◽  
pp. 193-249
Author(s):  
Ashley Scott Kelly ◽  
Xiaoxuan Lu
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Lao Pdr ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Indigenous Territories ◽  
Equal Power

AbstractThis chapter features three planning proposals focused on the ideological friction between Northern scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge. Northern scientific knowledge has enabled and legitimized various territorialization projects since the establishment of the Lao PDR. Over the past decade, the application of such knowledge has diversified and expanded along with Laos’s increasing integration into the socio-economic geography of the China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor. Unlike World Bank-funded green-neoliberal development that dominated Laos in the 1990s and 2000s, some China-funded projects are furthering the green neoliberal valuation of ecosystems in monetary terms and these ecosystems’ conservation by means of market dynamics. These ecosystem territories inevitably overlap with the country’s indigenous territories and their natural resource-dependent communities. The three planning proposals featured in this chapter foreground Laos’s remarkable human diversity and local communities’ valuable traditional ecological knowledge and practices. These planning proposals are situated in a diverse range of socio-ecological contexts, namely Nam Ha National Protected Area, a protected forest in Luang Prabang, and agricultural land within the capital Vientiane. Collectively, these proposals focus on agrarian populations influenced by old or new forms of land enclosure, investigating possible scenarios that may lead to more equal power relationships between the scientific and indigenous knowledge regimes.

scholarly journals The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Risk Reduction Practices through Scientific Knowledge: Cases from Mentawai Islands, Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Zulfadrim Zulfadrim ◽  
Yusuke Toyoda ◽  
Hidehiko Kanegae
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Mentawai Islands

This study explores the importance of indigenous knowledge for everyday practices of disaster risk reduction and response. Many existing studies have highlighted the need to integrate such knowledge with modern science. Based on ethnographic research in indigenous communities in the Mentawai Islands of Indonesia, this study explores the categorization of indigenous knowledge in the integration process. To that end, primary data were collected through in-depth interviews while secondary data were collected from relevant documents, including books, articles, websites and government and NGO reports. The findings indicate that indigenous knowledge is acquired through long observation and interaction with disasters. Although some of this knowledge is based on successes in other localities, some indigenous knowledge is completely local, homogenous and shared among community members. It was also established that indigenous knowledge can be meaningfully organized into a number of categories, and that indigenous knowledge of a technical nature is more likely to be integrated with scientific knowledge. The research was exploratory and approached indigenous knowledge issues from the point of view of indigenous communities themselves. This approach should be replicated and expanded in other indigenous communities.

When Science Becomes Relevant

2015 ◽  
pp. 259-273
Author(s):  
Shanah M. Suping ◽  
Kgomotso G. Garegae
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Rural Area ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Women's Empowerment ◽  
Women’S Empowerment ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Scientific School ◽  
Know How ◽  
Low Education ◽  
Milk Pasteurisation

This chapter explores the use of indigenous knowledge for empowerment purposes. The White Angels Yoghurt and Dairy business in Molepolole, a wholly women owned business relied on indigenous knowledge of science with no formal scientific school background. The owners of this business have low education; they stay in a rural area and are poor. Their efforts are noteworthy as a symbol of women's empowerment that has relied on indigenous knowledge of milk pasteurisation and sweetening, a cultural tradition that Batswana have practiced for years. Their business has also demonstrated that combining indigenous knowledge with the current scientific and technological know-how can sustain and yield more gains for the business. Empowerment here can thus be defined as the ability to combine local/indigenous resources and current scientific knowledge and technologies to propel success and more gains from an empowerment project.

The Cultural Interface of Islander and Scientific Knowledge

2010 ◽  
Vol 39 (S1) ◽  
pp. 53-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Nakata
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Conference Series ◽  
Contested Space ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge Systems ◽  
Cultural Interface ◽  
Difficult Dialogue

AbstractThe interface between Indigenous knowledge systems and Western scientific knowledge systems is a contested space where the difficult dialogue between us and them is often reduced to a position of taking sides. Storytelling is however a very familiar tradition in Indigenous families where we can and do translate expertly difficult concepts from one generation to the next. This article is based on my attempt to story our way through the difficult dialogue and to posit opportunities for more productive engagements about the place of Indigenous knowledge in our future deliberations at the Indigenous Studies and Indigenous Knowledge Conference series.

scholarly journals KIẾN THỨC BẢN ĐỊA CỦA NGƯỜI KOR TRONG BẢO TỒN VÀ PHÁT TRIỂN LOÀI QUẾ TRÀ BỒNG Ở TỈNH QUẢNG NGÃI

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 2020-2028
Author(s):  
Trần Kim Ngọc ◽  
Phạm Duy Hưng ◽  
Nguyễn Văn Lợi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Conservation Value ◽  
Research Results ◽  
Cinnamomum Cassia ◽  
The Future ◽  
Important Basis

Trà Bồng là một trong những huyện miền núi nằm ở phía Tây bắc của tỉnh Quảng Ngãi, là nơi phân bố tự nhiên của cây Quế (Cinnamomum cassia BL), là một loài cây lâm nghiệp đặc sản, có giá trị kinh tế và bảo tồn cao. Nghiên cứu này được thực hiện nhằm tổng hợp các kinh nghiệm và bổ sung thêm kiến thức bản địa của người Kor trong việc bảo tồn và phát triển bền vững loài Quế bản địa ở huyện Trà Bồng, tỉnh Quảng Ngãi. Nghiên cứu đã áp dụng phương pháp PRA kết hợp với đánh giá các mô hình trồng Quế trên thực địa. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy người Kor có nhiều kinh nghiệm trong việc nhận biết đặc điểm hình thái, chọn cây Quế mẹ lấy hạt giống và gây trồng phù hợp với  điều kiện thực tế tại địa phương. Những kiến thức bản địa của người Kor có giá trị, cần được duy trì, phát huy và kết hợp với kiến thức khoa học tiên tiến là cơ sở quan trọng cho việc lưu trữ, bảo tồn và cải thiện giống Quế bản địa Trà Bồng trong tương lai. ABSTRACT Tra Bong is one of mountainous districts in the Northwest of Quang Ngai province, where Cinnamon (Cinnamomum cassia BL), a special forestry tree, is distributed naturally with high economic and conservation value. This research aimed to synthesize experience and supplement indigenous knowledge of Kor people in conservation and sustainable development of native Cinnamon species in Tra Bong district of Quang Ngai province. The research has applied PRA method in combination with assessment of cinnamon cultivation models in the field. The research results showed that Kor people have had a lot of experience in recognizing morphological characteristics, selecting mother Cinnamon trees for seeds and planting native Cinnamon in accordance with local real conditions. The valuably indigenous knowledge of Kor people, which  needs to be maintained, promoted and combined with advanced scientific knowledge, is an important basis for storing, conserving and improving Tra Bong Cinnamon species in the future.

scholarly journals Science and Knowledge

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (02) ◽  
pp. 321-335
Author(s):  
Roger Chartier
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Western Science ◽  
Traditional Definition ◽  
Histoire Des Sciences ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Clear Line

This review article poses three questions, essentially based on the first two volumes of Histoire des sciences et des savoirs, a collective undertaking edited by Dominique Pestre. First, it considers the relationships between “science” and “knowledge.” Can a clear line be drawn between them? Or should “scientific” knowledge (with or without quotation marks) be considered a particular class of knowledge? And, if this is the case, must we define it according to a certain number of specific operations? Second, the article turns to the acceptance, criticism, or rejection of the traditional definition of the “scientific revolution,” dated to the seventeenth century and characterized by the mathematization of nature and the introduction of experimental practices. Should this be replaced by other perspectives, highlighting previous reconfigurations of fields of knowledge or the plurality of “revolutions”? Finally, the article considers the attention paid to connected histories of knowledge, which move away from Eurocentricism and introduce new actors. Recognizing these circulations does not however efface the asymmetry of exchanges, the stigmatization of indigenous knowledge, or the imperialistic imposition of Western science.

scholarly journals ’n Verkenning van die verhouding tussen wetenskap en inheemse kennis: Moontlikhede vir integrasie in Suid-Afrikaanse Lewenswetenskappeklaskamers

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Le Grange
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Sociology Of Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Relationship

The article is a theoretical exploration of the relationship between science and indigenous knowledge, as well as the implications for integrating the two in Life Sciences classrooms in schools. The theoretical discussion draws on insights from the sociology of scientific knowledge and argues that science should not only be viewed as representation but also as performance. Such a view, it is argued, serves as the basis for integrating indigenous knowledge into the Life Sciences. Practical suggestions are made as to how indigenous knowledge could be infused into Life Sciences classrooms and how teachers can scaffold learners through different types or stages of what Jegede calls, ‘collateral learning’.

Beyond Binaries of Scientific and Indigenous Knowledge Bean Storage Techniques

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-60
Author(s):  
Anne Namatsi Lutomia ◽  
Julia Bello-Bravo ◽  
Teresia Muthoni Njoroge ◽  
Barry R. Pittendrigh
Keyword(s):  
Adult Learning ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Adult Learning Theory ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Loss Prevention ◽  
Market Women ◽  
Educational Videos ◽  
Post Harvest Loss

Using a case study, this chapter illustrates how indigenous knowledge—and particularly female knowledge systems—can intersect with technology to disclose the limits of the conventional binary discourse of knowledge as either scientific or indigenous. Data here are drawn from research on legume market women in Ghana, who watched linguistically localized animated educational videos on cellphones while conducting business at their stalls. Using a framework of adult learning theory informed by feminist pedagogy, this chapter provides a multidisciplinary discussion around post-harvest loss prevention practices, specifically, but also how indigenous and scientific knowledge can interact to achieve learning.

scholarly journals Efforts of Indigenous Knowledge in Forest and Wildlife Conservation: A Case Study on Bulang People in Mangba Village in Yunnan Province, China

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 1178
Author(s):  
Kaiwen Su ◽  
Jie Ren ◽  
Yueting Qin ◽  
Yilei Hou ◽  
Yali Wen
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Protection System ◽  
Local People ◽  
Ecological Protection

In rural areas, indigenous knowledge plays an important role in the protection of forests and wildlife, but the rapid developments occurring in the society and economy impose several challenges to the continued role of indigenous knowledge. This study records how a Bulang village in the Yunnan Province of China uses indigenous knowledge to protect forests and wildlife and analyzes the underlying reasons. In this study, we found that even without specific punishment measures, local people effectively controlled the use of natural resources through moral constraints, public-opinion constraints, and worship rituals. Furthermore, they formed a forest- and wildlife-protection system with banyan trees and the Derbyan Parakeet at the core. This protection system is based on primitive nature worship and indigenous knowledge passed down orally from generation to generation. Such knowledge inheritance reflects the relationship between local people and nature. However, the lack of scientific guidance regarding ecological protection may lead to the destruction of the ecosystem. One such instance is illustrated using birdwatching tourism, for which the Bulang people are attracting birds by artificial feeding. This practice, while prescribed by indigenous knowledge, deviates from scientific knowledge on ecological protection. Therefore, we propose that there should be an intermeshing of indigenous and scientific knowledge to ensure the inheritance of and innovation in the former and effective biodiversity protection.

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