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Traditional knowledge

About: Traditional knowledge is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 10825 publications have been published within this topic receiving 202790 citations. The topic is also known as: indigenous knowledge & indigenous knowledge system.


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01 May 2016
TL;DR: The emergence of an academic discourse called Indigenous knowledge internationally, and mātauranga Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, presents some substantive challenges to concepts of knowing and being, of knowledge creation, knowledge work and the making of meaning as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The emergence of an academic discourse called Indigenous knowledge internationally, and mātauranga Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand, presents some substantive challenges to concepts of knowing and being, of knowledge creation, knowledge work and the making of meaning. These challenges engage us across philosophical, disciplinary, institutional, inter-generational, territorial and community boundaries, presenting an opportunity to imagine this field anew, and the theories and methodologies that inform contemporary Māori or Indigenous Studies. This article raises some discussion about ‘research methodologies’ being used when discussing mātauranga Māori and Indigenous knowledge (hereafter referred to as IK mātauranga). Research methodologies are often associated with specific disciplines of knowledge and viewed as the primary if not singular way in which knowledge is generated. Arguably, IK mātauranga occupies a different knowledge space from traditional academic disciplines, including their transdisciplinary interstices. This article speaks to a gnawing sense that mayhem is at play, as the academic work around IK mātauranga begins to consolidate and become institutionalised away from its indigenous communities and contexts, where it began and where it still informs identities, ways of living and being.

94 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the author's experiences in addressing indigenous peoples' concerns about research, and hence her work toward developing a culturally appropriate and collaborative approach to cross-cultural research, are reviewed.
Abstract: Indigenous peoples have expressed concerns about conventional forms of research into their lives. In response, some researchers have developed culturally appropriate models of social science research. This article reviews the author's experiences in addressing indigenous peoples' concerns about research, and hence her work toward developing a culturally appropriate and collaborative approach to cross-cultural research. A number of methodological and conceptual issues arise in cross-cultural collaborative research, including the importance of adopting a culturally appropriate research methodology, the role of the researcher, participation in the research process, rights to "traditional" indigenous knowledge, and, indeed, the nature of research-based knowledge. Each of these issues is discussed in the context of undertaking collaborative research into the lives of New Zealand's indigenous peoples, the Maori. The article also reviews the issues that arose when negotiating a research agreement between the Uni...

94 citations

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TL;DR: The development of a methodology designed specifically with reference to indigenous ecological knowledge about agroforestry, but of wider applicability is reported on, based on organising statements written in ‘natural language’.

93 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared known palm uses among two indigenous (Yawanawd and Kaxinawa) and two folk (rubber tapper and ribeirinho) communities in Southwestern Amazonia (Acre, Brazil).
Abstract: Despite its central importance to tropical forest conservation, the understanding of patterns in traditional resource use still is incipient. To address this deficiency, we compared known palm uses among two indigenous (Yawanawd and Kaxinawa) and two folk (rubber tapper and ribeirinho) communities in Southwestern Amazonia (Acre, Brazil). We conducted one-hundred-and -forty semi-structured “checklist” interviews about palm uses with male and female adults in the four communities. The knowledge of each community about the uses of the 17 palm species common to all communities was compared by testing for significant differences in the mean number of uses cited per informant and by calculating the Jaccard similarity index of known uses of palm species among the four communities. The following three hypotheses were confirmed: 1) the use of palms differs according to the cultural preferences of each community; 2) indigenous communities know significantly more about palm uses than folk communities; and 3) part of the indigenous knowledge was acquired through contact with Amazonian folk communities.

93 citations

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TL;DR: A central pillar of the reform is the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) that came into effect on 1 January 1995.
Abstract: Global intellectual property reform has been underway since the early 1990s (Box 1). With respect to international trade, a central pillar of the reform is the World Trade Organisation’s Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Agreement (TRIPS) that came into effect on 1 January 1995. Clearly, a strengthening of intellectual property laws worldwide can benefit those in industrialised nations who own most of the intellectual properties (e.g. copyrights on books, music, and software, patent rights on inventions, and trademark rights on business symbols and names).....

93 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023468
2022966
2021533
2020645
2019629
2018616