Answer to Question #236003 in English for Thando

Question

State [3 marks] and describe [9 marks] three sustainable indigenous knowledge

practices

Answer 1

Indigenous knowledge systems are complex assemblages of knowledge, know-how, practices, and representations that govern human civilizations in their numerous interactions with the natural environment. Agriculture and animal husbandry, hunting, fishing, and collecting are the three major sustaining indigenous knowledge activities. Indigenous knowledge systems emerged in the 1980s as a result of the fine-grained interaction between society and the environment. As an antidote to modernity, consider old knowledge to be fixed in time and unchangeable. Finally, it may be misleading to apply the term ecological to sets of knowledge whose content and nature extend far beyond the confines of one scientific discipline, to include knowledge such as constellation movements, ocean current strength, or sea ice elasticity, and to include not only empirical knowledge, but also practices and know-how, value systems, ways of life, and so on. Indigenous peoples, in reality, do not share the dualistic western worldview that divides the material from the spiritual and nature from civilization.