Natural Disasters, Ecological Knowledge, and COVID-19 in the Philippines

Supporting African thought with Migrant Indigenous Knowledge on dead human bodies research

“…It can be argued that since they believe that death is a natural process and so leaving their dead during migration struggles, 7 instantiating new forms of ontologies 8 and compact forms of living, 9 they contribute to an ecological knowledge of oneness. 10 Both Thaddeus Metz's Ubuntu, which thinks of moral status as the relationship of entering friendly relations with others, and Munamato Chemhuru's personhood theory, which thinks of moral status as the plural telic capacities to participate and contribute to aheirarchical nature, can benefit from the Mamanwa's way of dealing with death and the dead as a general proclivity for oneness with Hence, given the sensitive nature of the issue, an important implication for dead human bodies research, in general, is that the notion of dynamic consent must come in. Akin to the legal, ethical, and practical considerations of the dynamic consent approach to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander collections of genetic heritage, 11 the Mamanwa migrant indigenous perspectives of the dead support 'dynamic-flexible, re-evaluating-consent' 12 that respects the family, community, and society of the dead.…”