Traditional knowledge in a time of crisis: climate change, culture and communication

Herman, R. D. K.

doi:10.1007/s11625-015-0305-9

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“…Furthermore, Herman (2016) states that in the midst of today's modern culture value crisis, traditional culture becomes a subject of study of various disciplines. It is believed that the traditional culture incorporates the number of indigenous norms, which can be a solution to the crisis of modern culture.…”

Section: The Absence Of Kalego Game Inheritance Process In Familymentioning

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The Unsustainability of Kalego Traditional Game among Muna Community of Watopute District

Basri¹,

Momo²,

Marhadi³

et al. 2018

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This study aims at analyzing the unsustainability causes of kalego as one of traditional games of Muna communities in Watopute District, Muna Regency, Southeast Sulawesi. Data collection was conducted through participant observation, interviews, surveys, and focused discussion. Data analysis was conducted qualitatively and descriptive statistic by employing data reduction technique, data presentation and conclusion. The results showed that kalego traditional game has been degraded or unsustainably practiced as the impact of the low awareness and low understanding among Muna community toward this traditional game. Approximately 71.25% Muna community in Watopute district cannot play the traditional game. The unsustainability of kalego was caused by several factors namely; 1) the absence of the family inheritance about kalego traditional game and the decreasing number of old figures who understand Muna culture contribute to the decreasing of local culture knowledge among younger generations; 2) Cultural encounters which results incorporated acculturation toward Muna's local culture; 3) the absence of the massive kalego game staging.

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Section: The Absence Of Kalego Game Inheritance Process In Familymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Unsustainability of Kalego Traditional Game among Muna Community of Watopute District

Basri¹,

Momo²,

Marhadi³

et al. 2018

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“…The agency of the local culture and experiences was reinforced through the engagement of 13 research participants in producing photographic essays as visual data (Herman, 2015;McNamara & Prasad, 2013). This facilitated dialogue and transfer of knowledge and skills between the research participants and the researcher.…”

Section: Community Participation and Voice In Climate Change Adaptationmentioning

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Pacific climate change adaptation: The use of participatory media to promote indigenous knowledge

Inamara

Thomas

2017

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Pacific Island communities are increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change. Inaccessibility to relevant information about contemporary climate change adaptation strategies at the community level presents challenges. At the same time, indigenous strategies to adapt to climate changes have been overlooked in both local and global climate change debates. This article discusses a project undertaken with a community on Andra Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies were explored through photo essays developed by community members, engaging in approaches of visual participatory action research and indigenous research approaches. The collaboration with the Andra Island community created a space for reflective dialogue about challenges posed by climate change as well as how photo essays can be used to promote Indigenous Knowledge (IK) as a viable capital for community-based adaptation (CBA). Within this context, this article demonstrates how climate change is both a natural and cultural process of change which poses socio-economic challenges. These challenges can compel people to engage in unsustainable practices that might exacerbate natural climate change impacts. The article highlights that building community capacity in participatory media can be an important tool to forge collective synergy, dialogue and ownership in local climate change initiatives. In particular, the authors demonstrate how participatory media can be harnessed to integrate indigenous knowledge in community-based climate change adaptation.

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“…The latter by nature modifies, diminishes, and even erases archives of indigenous or local landscape management to legitimize colonial control of territory and natural resources (Tucker et al. ; Herman ). In Madagascar, for instance, French naturalists and colonial administrators linked indigenous land use for swidden cultivation to mismanagement of resources as early as the 17th century (de la Bâthie ; De Flacourt ; Pollini ).…”

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Historical perspectives on contemporary human–environment dynamics in southeast Africa

Douglass

Walz

Morales

et al. 2019

Conservation Biology

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The human communities and ecosystems of island and coastal southeast Africa face significant and linked ecological threats. Socioecological conditions of concern to communities, governments, nongovernmental organizations, and researchers include declining agricultural productivity, deforestation, introductions of non-native flora and fauna, coastal erosion and sedimentation, damage to marine environments, illegal fishing, overfishing, waste pollution, salinization of freshwater supplies, and rising energy demands, among others. Human-environment challenges are connected to longer, often ignored, histories of social and ecological dynamics in the region. We argue that these challenges are more effectively understood and addressed within a longer-term historical ecology framework. We reviewed cases from Madagascar, coastal Kenya, and the Zanzibar Archipelago of fisheries, deforestation, and management of human waste to encourage increased engagement among historical ecologists, conservation scientists, and policy makers. These case studies demonstrate that by widening the types and time depths of data sets we used to investigate and address current socioecological challenges, our interpretations of their causes and strategies for their mitigation varied significantly.Perspectivas Históricas sobre las Dinámicas Contemporáneas entre Humanos y el Ambiente en el Sureste deÁfrica Resumen: Las comunidades humanas y los ecosistemas de las costas del sureste africano enfrentan amenazas ecológicas significativas y vinculadas. Las condiciones socio-ecológicas que preocupan a las comunidades, los gobiernos, las organizaciones no gubernamentales y a los investigadores incluyen la poductividad agrícola en declinación, la deforestación, la introducción de flora y fauna no nativa, la sedimentación y erosión costera, el daño hacia los ecosistemas marinos, la pesca ilegal, la sobrepesca, la contaminación por desechos, la salinización de las cuencas de agua dulce, y la creciente demanda de energía, entre otras. Los retos humanos -ecosistema están conectados con historias más largas, y frecuentemente ignoradas, de dinámicas sociales y ecológicas en la región. Argumentamos que estos retos se entienden y se tratan con mayor efectividad dentro de un marco de trabajo de ecología histórica con un periodo más largo. Revisamos casos de pesquerías, deforestación y manejo de desechos humanos en Madagascar, la costa de Kenia y el archipiélago de Zanzíbar para propiciar una mayor participación entre los ecologistas históricos, los científicos de la conservación, y los * email: kdouglass@psu.edu Article impact statement: Past human-environment dynamics are key to addressing today's threats to livelihoods and ecosystems in island and coastal southeast Africa. Douglass et al. 261legisladores. Estos estudios de caso demuestran que al ampliar los tipos y la temporalidad de los conjuntos de datos que usamos para investigar y tratar los retos socio-ecológicos contemporáneos, nuestras interpretaciones de las causas de estos retos y las estrategias para...

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Traditional knowledge in a time of crisis: climate change, culture and communication

Cited by 47 publications

References 27 publications

The Unsustainability of Kalego Traditional Game among Muna Community of Watopute District

The Unsustainability of Kalego Traditional Game among Muna Community of Watopute District

Pacific climate change adaptation: The use of participatory media to promote indigenous knowledge

Historical perspectives on contemporary human–environment dynamics in southeast Africa

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