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Title: GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS


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GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
  • DATU MIGKETAY VICTORINO L. SAWAY
  • Talaandig Tribe
  • Sungko, Lantapan, Bukidnon
  • Mindanao, Philippines

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BACKGROUND
  • Ethnic Group TALAANDIG
  • Population 100,000 (approximately)
  • Location Province of Bukidnon,
  • Philippines
  • Ancestral Territory Mt. Kitanglad and
    Surrounding Municipalities
  • Area 43,000 (approximately)

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OBJECTIVES
  • To discuss the origin of local knowledge based on
    the Talaandig story of creation.
  • To explain the concept of a global responsibility
    based on the framework and structures of local
    knowledge
  • To discuss the significance of the common sense
    as basis of identifying the link between
  • local knowledge and global science.

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ORIGIN AND SOURCES OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
  • Framework of Creation
  • Cultural Integrity Framework
  • Territorial Integrity Framework
  • The Human Body
  • The House
  • The Community
  • The Culture
  • The Earth

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FRAMEWORK OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
  • A formulation of an Indigenous Peoples
    Comprehensive Plan for survival and development
    requires two important framework
  • 1) The Cultural Integrity Framework that
    significantly includes indigenous beliefs and
    religion, oral history and knowledge systems,
    customary laws, economic system and health
    practices, and, indigenous defense.
  • 2) The Territorial Integrity Framework that
    cover ancestral lands and domain's, ancestral
    waters, forests, mountains, natural and
    biological resources including air, sun sounds
    and spirits.

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  • Figure I. Framework and Structure of Local
    Knowledge

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CHARACTERISTICS OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
  • Unwritten and Expressed in Oral Traditions
  • Communally and Collectively Owned
  • Closely associated with Nature
  • Universal in Principle
  • Dynamic and Systematic
  • Understood through the Common Sense
  • A common heritage

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FORMS AND EXPRESSIONS OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
  • Social, i.e., oral history and traditions, epic
    chanting, instruments playing , healing, etc.
  • Economic, i.e., hunting, food gathering,planting
    harvesting, etc.
  • Political, i.e., customary mediation,
    arbitration, peace negotiations, defense etc.
  • Spiritual, i.e., religious ceremonies,
    worshipping, rituals, etc.

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PRINCIPLES OF EXPANSION OF KNOWLEDGE
  • Horizontal Approach, i.e. Individual person as
    male or females, brothers or sisters male or
    female cousins male or female relatives of the
    same generation, etc.
  • Vertical Approach, i.e. male or female son or
    daughter male or female parents male or female
    grandparents male or female ancestors, etc.

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SIGNIFICANCE OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN A MULTI-SCALE
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
  • Relationships of the physical constitution of
    the human body to the physical constitution of
    nature/earth.
  • Identification of Variables i.e., social
    variables, economic variables, political
    variables and spiritual variables, that provides
    basis of understanding cultural evolution and
    change.
  • Principle of Harmony and Balance in relation with
    the natural course of change
  • A Principle of Accountability
  • A Principle of Survival and Self-preservation

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GLOBAL ACCOUNTABILITY
  • Protecting and Preserving the earth and nature as
    the physical foundation of human survival
  • Maintaining the harmony and balance between human
    culture and nature
  • Cultural Accounting and Accountability
  • Awareness of Cultural and Environmental Impacts
  • A Common Sense Method

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COMMON SENSE AS THE LINK
  • Theoretical and Conceptual Aspect of Common
    Sense, i.e. concept, idea, philosophy and
    principle.
  • Practical and Validity Aspect of Common Sense,
    i.e. heard, seen, smelt, touched, tasted, felt,
    moved.
  • Common Sense as a logical process and a system
  • Common Sense as the basis human manipulation and
    interventions with nature
  • The integrity of Common Sense as a tool of local
    knowledge and modern science
  • Common Sense as mother of all sciences

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SUMMARY
  • Principle of Interdependency, e.g. the human
    being was created for the world and the world
    for the human being
  • Role as Custodian of Creation/ Accountability
  • Common Sense or Common Science as the Common
    Ground between local and modern knowledge
  • Physical Constitution of Nature as Source Book of
    Local Knowledge and the Basic Resources of
    Technological and Scientific Intervention and
    Manipulations
  • Principle of Balance and Harmony as a necessity
    to both local and global science.

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