R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Environmental Impact Assessment, Pattern Recognition
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Constructs 20 short answer questions for the nal, gives them to us, and then asks us ~8. Nal is non-cumulative (back half of syllabus) Requires large projects to undergo these assessments, a part of this process is how the industrialization is going to e ect aboriginals. Php diamond mine - large scale diamond mining initiatives. Importance of the oral tradition is coming out here. Wildlife: need to base their research on science and include traditional knowledge. Consultation process must take place in a manner that is going to hold up in a court of law. [in the slides there are ~4 formal de nitions of tek] Indigenous knowledge is geographical (burial sites, sacred hunting grounds, etc. ) Embeddness and holisticness of tek often contrasted with western scienti c knowledge. Not just interested in ecology of plant, interested in genetics, etc. Personal experience (repeated personal observation that is recorded in memory, passed on from one generation to the next)
