Thursday, May 13, 2010
Traditional Knowledge Revival Pathways
This video is a summary of how TEK is on the verge of being lost and why it is so important to secure this knowledge for the livelihood of community and country. What is most worrisome is how the passing of TEK is becoming more difficult for future generations. More and more people are detaching themselves from the environment when really we should be keeping the spirituality with nature. As emphasized in class, humans must learn to live with the animals and environment instead of learning what it can provide for us only.
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This program is essential because so much TEK is being lost throughout the world, as I have mentioned in previous posts. This video spoke of 500 indigenous languages, and it is amazing and devastating that so many languages are lost daily throughout the world. This ties in a bit to my latest blog, because this group of indigenous people in Australia is letting their community be videotaped in order to preserve the TEK and show it to other social groups in Australia who do not know about the community. This is similar to me because the community is able to both pass on their knowledge and culture and receive some economic revenue at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThe theme of this video seems to be that man is nature, and that man and his country live co-dependently. I feel that these concepts tie in to what we have talked about in class. It reminded me also of the idea that nature is where we play, pray, eat, etc.
This project is very beneficial to this community and I think that similar projects should be done around the world in communities in which there is TEK that can be lost.
I just did a project on food concepts during Malawi's 2001/2002 famine, and "The End of Chidyerano" is a great book to read if you're interested in the complicated cultural aspects of land, food, and TEK in one ethnic group in SE Africa. The author argues that talk of famine in this region from Western intellectuals has left out cultural concepts, and the amazing ordinary and everyday of food and culture hasn't been discussed very much in academia. I learned a ton from your blog! I really like this video, really elucidates some of Prof. Pena's concepts.
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