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Landscapes\u27 Lessons: Native American Cultural Geography in Nineteenth-Century Oregon and Washington
Get PDFThe depth and complexity of the cultural significance of physical geographic spaces to Native Americans is often underappreciated or misunderstood. For Pacific Northwest indigenous groups, landscapes contained lessons by which to live and histories of their people and their neighbors. The stories embedded in the landscapes not only augmented the oral tradition but were also crucial to the maintenance of socio-cultural values of native communities. The stories the landscape produced served as cultural reminders, but their efficacy depended upon continued contact with those locales. Knowing this helps us better understand the upheaval wrought by the US removal policy, which relocated Indians away from familiar landscapes and the lessons they imparted to remote and too often mute reservation lands
2016 Whiting Indigenous Knowledge Research Award Winners
Get PDFSummary of the project proposals of the Whiting Indigenous Knowledge Student Research Award Winners
Strokes Unfolding Unexplored World: Drawings as an Instrument to Know the World of Aadivasi Children in India
Get PDFThis paper is based on an analysis of the drawings of Aadivasi children in Maraharashtra, a state in India. It presents the otherwise neglected world of the Aadivasi children, namely, the children\u27s perspectives towards their environment and culture as expressed in the drawings. It also discusses the influence of the geographical and cultural environment on the drawing style of Aadivasi children, emphasizing special features of the drawings, i.e., their collective creation. It further analyzes the intellectual attributes Aadivasi children exhibit through their art work using the theory framework of multiple-intelligence. The drawings exhibit different aspects of visual-spatial intelligence and a strong emotional bond between Aadivasi children and nature. The paper offers leads for understanding the visual-spatial intelligence and naturalistic intelligence among these children. It also discusses the possibility that the high ability of coordination and cooperation among Aadivasi children acquired through socialization in their communities could be attributed as interpersonal intelligence. The paper comments on the design of the Indian Education System, which is characterized by an insensitive approach towards the specific cultural context and intellectual attributes of tribal children.
Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge with Western Science for Optimal Natural Resource Management
Get PDFTraditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has been recognized within indigenous communities for millennia; however, traditional ecological knowledge has received growing attention within the western science (WS) paradigm over the past twenty-five years. Federal agencies, national organizations, and university programs dedicated to natural resource management are beginning to realize the critical need to incorporate different ways of knowing into their natural resource management decisions. Furthermore, Native American tribes on a national scale are assuming greater leadership through self-determination and self-governance and continue to serve as models for sustainable forestry and resource management by incorporating components such as traditional ecological knowledge, community support for integrated resource management plans, and a holistic, dedicated, long-term vision for the environment. This paper reviews recent literature on the integration of TEK and WS and proposes a dualism theory for conservation in the twenty-first century where TEK and WS are applied equally in natural resource management
Scientific Language and Thought in an African Indigenous Knowledge System: About Dagara Cultic Institutions and Frames of Thought
Get PDFThe African indigenous knowledge system, like any academic discipline, has its own specific language and jargon as a created symbolic system, which it uses both to see and understand the reality that is the focus of its study and subsequently to document, communicate, and further increase its knowledge content. However, it is generally the case that "scientific colonialism," as Galtung puts it (Galtung 1967), in African indigenous knowledge as a science has led to a distortion of the language and culture used to understand African knowledge generally and, by extension, a distortion of the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of thought. This article takes the view that scholars of African indigenous knowledge and science need to tackle the issue of scientific decolonization in order to generate and understand the scientific lexicon through which this knowledge system has come into existence. This article focuses on the ethnographic description and analysis of cultic institutions among the Dagara of northwest Ghana, within which knowledge paradigms and thought frames are embedded
Preserving Cultural Heritage and Creating Economic Stability after the Nepal Earthquake
Get PDFDuring the summer of 2015, after my freshman year at The Pennsylvania State University, I was given the opportunity to spend about a month in Nepal where I worked at a non-governmental organization and created a project that would help Gatlang, a village that was horribly damaged by the earthquakes that struck Nepal in April and May of 2015. A few short weeks in Nepal were enough to change my perspective on the world forever. I still think about how lucky I am to have been granted an experience that most people could never dream of having. Even more than this, I realize how lucky I am to have never been forced to cope with the devastation of any disaster of the magnitude of the Nepal earthquake
The Ghana Cookbook: A Review
Get PDFFran Osseo-Asare and Barbara Baeta set out to capture the heart of Ghanaian cuisine in The Ghana Cookbook. From the glossy, red cover decorated with images of typical ingredients, sweets, and fabric patterns to the glossary of Ghanaian names of ingredients and recipes provided throughout the book, The Ghana Cookbook accomplishes what the authors purposed to do: take the reader to the heartland of Ghanaian cuisine, and, as a bonus, they give us some snippets of other West African gastronomy as well