RELS 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Participatory Theory, Indigenous Rights
17 Feb 2017
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Go over all the lectures/lecture slides uploaded on onq. Don"t need to know after sedna and the bird. Referred to a body of knowledge built up by a group of people through generations. Johson) of living in close contact with nature. It includes a system of classification, a set of empirical observations about the local environment, and a system of self-management that governs resource use(cid:499) (cid:523)martha. A non-indigenous understanding of tek killing jar. From an indigenous understanding of tek it is the way that one relates. Living and nurturing these relationships is key. study tek - you live it. There is a lack of shared meaning between aboriginal and eurocentric thinkers as to what is meant by tek. Tek is thus not valued as highly as western science. Distillation: scientists tend to be interested only in certain kinds of information; not all that tek has to offer is considered relevant = separation of people from their knowledge.
