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Indigenous Knowledge - Part B

Indigenous cultures should be researched from an emic, or insider, perspective rather than just an etic, or outsider, perspective. When researching cultures, researchers must consider their own reflexivity, ethics, avoiding stereotypes, protecting indigenous knowledge and ownership. Researchers should also avoid ethnocentrism and overgeneralizing. Cultural knowledge is best understood within its own frames of reference. While some aspects of cultures like time, aggression, emotion and attraction appear universal, aspects like gender roles and concepts of marriage/love are often culture-specific. Western science and indigenous knowledge share some commonalities around environmental awareness, organic practices and interconnectedness, despite appearing as opposites. We may be more similar than different if

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Indigenous Knowledge - Part B

Indigenous cultures should be researched from an emic, or insider, perspective rather than just an etic, or outsider, perspective. When researching cultures, researchers must consider their own reflexivity, ethics, avoiding stereotypes, protecting indigenous knowledge and ownership. Researchers should also avoid ethnocentrism and overgeneralizing. Cultural knowledge is best understood within its own frames of reference. While some aspects of cultures like time, aggression, emotion and attraction appear universal, aspects like gender roles and concepts of marriage/love are often culture-specific. Western science and indigenous knowledge share some commonalities around environmental awareness, organic practices and interconnectedness, despite appearing as opposites. We may be more similar than different if

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Researching indigenous cultures...

Etics- perspective an outsider Emics - perspective of


has of the area. somebody native to the area.
Research into culture needs to consider...
Reflexivity of the researcher
Ethics
Stereotyping
Protection of knowledge and ownership?
Ethnocentrism- the tendency to perceive the world from your own cultural/ethnic
group. A consequence of this is that explanations may only work for certain cultural
groups.
Caution of generalising data.
Translation of data.
Psychology of

Cultural knowledge is
best understood in its
own terms and within its
own frames of
reference.
Discuss

Maasai definition of marriage/love.


Universal/similar (etic) or
Culture specific/different (emic)?

Time?
Aggression?
Emotion?
Attraction?
Gender roles?
Depression?
Happiness?
How different are we?
Western Science and Indigenous Knowledge
are not polar opposites, common similarities
exist in reference to:
Environmental awareness
Organic produce
Interconnectedness of living things- ecology
Stephen L.Point
Skowkale First Nation, Canada:

Our values and our systems are not European.


However, the more I study Europeans and the more I
learn about my own history, the more I find that in fact
we are the same
if you look long and hard enough, you will find that there
are probably more similarities than there are differences
between us
Vandana Shiva
Weve moved from wisdom to knowledge,
and now were moving from knowledge to
information, and that information is so partial-
that were creating incomplete human beings.

To what extent do you agree with the above


statement?
Further research

Extended Essay?
CAS?
TOK presentation/essay?
Videos

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