R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Empirical Evidence, Fordism
8 Feb 2017
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge ot’d fro Frida
Reading: Paul Nadasdy Nadasd, P. 999. The Politis of TEK: Poer ad the Itegratio of
Knowledge. Arctic Anthropology. (36) 1-18.)
- Criticizes how TEK is utilized at a management level
Berkes Interview:
- Defines Traditional Knowledge
o Accumulated over generations
o Culturally transmitted
o Has different proponents
▪ Empirical knowledge component
▪ Management practice component
o Characterized by worldview which is different from the dominant Western worldview
that eough researh a resole issues
▪ Thik there’s a oral/spiritual opoet as ell
▪ Auulatio of koledge is’t the ol eas to a solutio
- TK is important to the people who hold it for the maintenance of culture, language, relationships
with the land, important socially, culturally, politically
- TK is part of the heritage of humankind—Great lirar of koledge ad relatioships that
people hae ith the eiroet
- Use of TK to solve a particular problem empowers the people working on that problem
Traditional Knowledge
- Post positivist
o Creates a ore ople relatioship etee the oserer ad hat’s eig osered
▪ Ex. Observing humans → the a at differetl he the ko the’re eig
observed
o Human-nature relationships, socio-ecological
- Wholistic approaches to empirical sciences
- Spiritual
- Local knowledge, insiders
- Bottom-up, participatory approaches
Western Scientific Knowledge
- Positiist there’s a diret relatioship etee the oserer ad hat’s eig osered
o Reductionist
o Focused on particular piece of nature (ex. A person might be an expert on one thing,
such as mosses → particularistic knowledge)
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Document Summary
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