2004 Indigenous Knowledges Conference Proceedings

The proceedings are available in two versions, one version includes photos [FULL] and one version does not include photos [TEXT].  For each article, click on the version you would like to view.

I. INTRODUCTION

Audrey N. Maretzki: “Introduction to International Indigenous Knowledges Conference Proceedings”  [FULL] [TEXT]

SECTION II. FOOD IN A GEOCULTURAL CONTEXT

  • Salei’a Afele-Fa’amuli: “Food Super Sizing: Understanding Its Expectation 2 and Demonstration of Respect in Indigenous Polynesia”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • John Floros: “Food and Diet in Greece from Ancient to Present Times”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Madhu Suri Prakash: “Slow Food: Indian Tradition and the American  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Academy Yoked” Elayne Zorn and Leslie Sue Lieberman: “Freeze-dried but Always Peeled: Anthropological Approaches to Food Processing, Preparation, and Consumption of the Andean Potato”  [FULL] [TEXT]

SECTION III. TRADITIONAL ASPECTS OF HEALTH AND WELLNESS

  • Opio Chono Alex, M.D.: “Selection of Potentially Useful Herbs in the Management of Opportunistic Infections in HIV/AIDs in Uganda–THETA”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Craig Hassel: “Woodlands Wisdom: Traditional Knowledge Guiding Contemporary Health” [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Peggy Hiestand: “Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College’s Woodlands Wisdom Nutrition Program”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Chandra Prakash Kala: “Revitalizing Traditional Herbal Therapy by Exploring Medicinal Plants: A Case Study of Uttaranchal State in India”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Winfred Musila, Daniel Kisangau, Joyce Muema: “Conservation Status and Use of Medicinal Plants by Traditional Medical Practitioners in Machakos District, Kenya”  [FULL] [TEXT]

SECTION IV. CONSTRUCTION AND TRANSFER OF CULTURAL KNOWLEDGE

SECTION V. WALKABOUT SESSION: CULTURES AT WORK

  • Debbie Dillon-Adams: “M.G. Whiting Center Sponsors Walkabout Session”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Cindy Cowan: “Recovering the Traditional Art of Sanikiluaq Grass Basket Making: A Case Study” [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Victoria Weaver: “The (Re)construction of Native American Identity Through the Visual Arts”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Elayne Zorn and Juan Quispe: “The Cultural Significance of Andean Cloth and Implications of Its Decline”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Book Launch: Indigenous Knowledge in Development—Local Pathways to Global Development; A Compendium of Five Years of IK Notes. Reinhard Woytek, Preeti Shroff-Mehta, and Prasad C. Mohan (eds.)  [FULL] [TEXT]

SECTION VI. TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND CONTEMPORARY MARKETS: TWO TOURS

  • Eric P. Burkhart: “Forest Plants of Pennsylvania: Our Native Botanical Wealth”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • James W. Dunn: “Amish Businesses in a Modern World”   [FULL] [TEXT]

SECTION VII. KEYNOTE: 

SECTION VIII. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ACADEMY

  • Patricia Cochran: “Ethical Guidelines for the Use of Traditional Knowledge in Research and Science—Council of Yukon First Nations”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Craig Hassel: “Engaging and Transforming the Academy: Woodlands Wisdom”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Harriet Kuhnlein: “The Centre for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment at McGill University, Montreal, Canada”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • Daniel Obikeze: “Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Transformation of the Academy in Africa: The CULPIP Model”  [FULL] [TEXT]
  • James Tunney: “Making Local and Indigenous Knowledge Part of World Trade Law”  [FULL] [TEXT]

SECTION IX. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

  • Mary Kinyanjui: “Local Knowledge and the Transformation of Gender Identities of Businesswomen in the Informal Academy”  [TEXT]
  • Geoffrey Nwaka: “Using Indigenous Knowledge To Strengthen Local Governance and Development in Nigeria”  [TEXT]
  • R. N. Pati: “Ethno-Medicinal Practices and Sustainable Development: Sensitive Issues of Economic Transformation in Chhattisgarh”   [TEXT]
  • Lwasa Shuaib: “Role of IKS in Decision Making for Two Hydropower Generation Projects in Uganda”  [TEXT]
  • Shaileshkumar Shukla: “Strengthening Community-based Conservation Through Traditional Ecological Knowledge”  [TEXT]

SECTION X. STUDY DAY: AN OVERVIEW

  • Ladislaus Semali: “Dialogue to Transform the Academy: Report of the Indigenous Knowledges Study Day” [FULL] [TEXT]

SECTION XI. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Ladislaus Semali: “Indigenous Knowledges Conference: Selected Bibliography”  [TEXT]

SECTION XII. LINK TO POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS

  • Margaret L. Bogle: “Using Indigenous Knowledge in Community-based Nutrition Intervention Research”  [FULL]
  • David Hufford: “Indigenous Knowledge and Medicine: Efforts at the Penn State College of Medicine”  [FULL]
  • Koushik Seetharaman: “Cultural Influences in Indian Cuisine”  [FULL]
  • Ritu Sogani: “People’s Knowledge—Integral to Empowerment: An Experience Based on the Grassroots Initiatives Taken in a Few Himalayan Villages”  [FULL]
  • Reinhard Woytek: “Learning from Local Communities”  [FULL]
  • Greg Ziegler: “The Rivalry of the Grasses”  [FULL]

SECTION XIII. AUTHOR INDEX  [TEXT]

 

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