ANTH 266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Systems Theory, Carbon Sequestration
14 Feb 2019
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A. k. a traditional ecological knowledge, local ecological knowledge. A cumulative body of knowledge, practice, and belief, evolving by adaptive processes and handed down through generations by cultural transmission, about the relationship of living beings (including humans) with one another and with their environment (berkes 1999: 8) Need to publish a peer reviewed paper. Peer review by mother nature, if it is false, you are screwed . Dynamic, yet based on long-term observation and experience. Dynamic, but can be slow to change. Often looking for broad-based explanations for phenomena. Tested through repeat experiment, peer review, comparison. Accessed through academic training, peer-reviewed journals and books. Artifacts: visible structures and processes (sometimes hard to decipher) Epistemology: knowledge systems, ways of knowing and understanding. Worldview: unconscious, taken for granted beliefs, perceptions, thoughts and feelings (ultimate source of values and action) What we do to the earth, we do to ourselves .
