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Two Articles of Interest
from Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Tuesday, 23 February 2010, 12:02 pm
 
Two articles were included in November 2009 in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand:

Missing in translation: Maori language and oral tradition in scientific analyses of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)
by Priscilla M. Wehi, Hēmi Whaanga, and Tom Roa
http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/publish/Journals/jrsnz/2009/021.aspx
Excerpt:
Recent conceptual shifts in ecology towards integration of humans into ecosystems requires all possible sources of ecological knowledge available. Māori traditional ecological knowledge of natural systems (TEK) can add valuable ecological data to more conventional scientific studies as the former tends to be diachronic, based on a cumulative system of understanding the environment founded on observations and experience, while the latter is frequently synchronic, with experiments that may explore causal effects in ecological patterns.



"O ye of little faith": traditional knowledge and Western science
by Jim Williams (Ngāi Tahu)
http://www.royalsociety.org.nz/Site/publish/Journals/jrsnz/2009/013.aspx
Excerpt:
Agrawal refers to social and political dimensions of "indigenous knowledge", without exploring what exactly these might be. He makes no explicit endorsement or criticisms of either dimension, but I submit that they are both invaluable, not just to make various practices meaningful; they are vital to the good management of resources.

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