Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations.

Indigenous environmental knowledge and its transformations. Dove, Michael R., 2000, The life-cycle of indigenous knowledge, andthe case of natural rubber production. In: Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes, AlanBicker bick��er?intr.v. bick��ered, bick��er��ing, bick��ers1. To engage in a petty, bad-tempered quarrel; squabble. See Synonyms at argue.2. , eds., Indigenous environmental knowledge and itstransformations. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, pp. 213-251. Departing from his study of the indigenous knowledge system ofsmallholder Noun 1. smallholder - a person owning or renting a smallholdingBritain, Great Britain, U.K., UK, United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland - a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and cultivators of para rubber in Kalimantan, the authorconsiders two different views of indigenous knowledge. The first is thatfor a long time indigenous knowledge has been ignored as a consequenceof the preference for modem, scientific knowledge over local,traditional knowledge, but that the new study of indigenous knowledgewill have positive effects. The other view questions the genuineness ofthis critique on the preference for modem knowledge and contends thatemphasizing the difference between scientific knowledge on the one handand traditional knowledge on the other is just another"self-privileging antinomy An expression in law and logic to indicate that two authorities, laws, or propositions are inconsistent with each other. ANTINOMY. A term used in the civil law to signify the real or apparent contradiction between two laws or two decisions. Merl. Repert. h.t. " (as there are many inanthropological theoretical discourse). The rubber case shows that whenthe epistemic ep��i��ste��mic?adj.Of, relating to, or involving knowledge; cognitive.[From Greek epistm origins of this indigenous knowledge system are revealed,the validity of the label "indigenous knowledge" may becomequestionable. It turns out that the knowledge system is rather hybrid,and its representations co ntested by the different parties involved.The author not only criticizes the concept of indigenous knowledge, butalso places this critique in a wider intellectual framework, showingthat indigenous knowledge may be analyzed through "its life-cycleof initial reception and utility followed by subsequent rejection anddisunity dis��u��ni��ty?n. pl. dis��u��ni��tiesLack of unity.Noun 1. disunity - lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension) ." With this heuristic A method of problem solving using exploration and trial and error methods. Heuristic program design provides a framework for solving the problem in contrast with a fixed set of rules (algorithmic) that cannot vary. 1. use of the concept it becomes clearthat the way in which Western scholars, including anthropologists,conceive of indigenous knowledge also tells us something about the waythey conceive of knowledge in general (EI, Rosemary Robson-McKillops).