出版社：Centre for International Research and Advisory Networks (CIRAN)
摘要：On 18 December 1992, United Nations
Resolution 164 declared 1993 the
‘International Year of the World’s
Indigenous People’. This was aimed at
strengthening international cooperation, in order
to address the problems faced by indigenous
communities in such fields as human rights, the
environment, development, education and health.
According to Warren (1991), the term local or
indigenous knowledge (IK) is used to distinguish the
knowledge developed by a given community from
international knowledge systems or scientific
knowledge. The latter, sometimes referred to as
‘Western’ knowledge systems (WKS), are generated
by universities, government research centres and
private industry. IK can also refer to the ‘technical’
insight or wisdom gained and developed by people
in a particular locality, through years of careful
observation and experimentation with the natural
phenomena around them.
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