ethnoscience

ethnoscience(s)

(SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) the study of the indigenous bodies of knowledge within a culture area. Thus, ethnobotany records local botanical knowledge and plant taxonomies, and ethnoecology records local knowledge of ecological factors; while ethnohistory, which possesses similarities with ‘history from below’ (see HISTORY WORKSHOP JOURNAL), seeks to provide an historical account from the point of view of the society under discussion, using the oral historical record within the community. In general, the prefix ethno- used in this context refers to an analysis from the point of view of the ‘folk’ culture(s) being studied.

The ethnosciences are now seen as having some value in achieving ecologically sensitive forms of development, and forms of development also in tune with local needs. The recovery of‘lost’ knowledge that the ethnosciences represent also raises questions about the progressive nature of orthodox SCIENCE and about RATIONALITY. See also MULTICULTURALISM, COGNITIVE ANTHROPOLOGY. Compare ETHNOGRAPHY, ETHNOMETHODOLOGY.

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Harding (1998) claims that a new kind of comparative ethnoscience movement emerged from the older 'Eurocentric' colonial frameworks which represented the knowledge traditions of other cultures as the products of 'savage minds'.

Science, knowledge production and social practice

All science, on this account, must be ethnoscience.

Sandra Harding: Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues

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Sacred manuscripts boast secret ciphers

Informed by ethnoscience theory (Frake, 1961; Goodenough, 1957), which assumes that language reveals what we believe, the Developmental Research Sequence begins with a broad question and, on the basis of participants' responses, creates related, more precise questions in an effort to attain a detailed description of the culture of interest.

A qualitative study of collaborative health care in a primary care setting

Cette ethnoscience se serait developpee il y a plusieurs milliers d'annees.

Parameters for human occupation of the Hudson Bay Lowlands and general results of archaeological inquiries along the lower Severn River, Ontario, Canada

Miller, "An Ethnoscience Approach to Curriculum Issues for American Indian Students," School Science and Mathematics, vol.

What we don't know can hurt them; white teachers, Indian children: white teachers in Indian schools often find themselves unprepared for their task--they don't understand the history, culture, communities, and learning needs of their students. Ms. Starnes challenges these educators to become better teachers of Indian children and gives them some sage advice

An ethnoscience approach was used to guide this research.

Weight control behavior and women: a cross-cultural perspective

This feminine knowledge is constructed not around notions of a feminine ethnoscience or of any specific responsibility to the local landscape, but rather in terms of a set of skills and abilities to take advantage of opportunities available on a national and global scale.

Cultivating new local futures: remittance economies and land-use patterns in Ifugao, Philippines

As these relativists have said, it necessarily follows that if peoples' minds vary so much from one culture to another, Western science is only a culturally specific form of ethnoscience, not a universally valid way of verification or falsification.

The ethnocentrism of Clifford Geertz

Adaptive strategies of urban nomads: The ethnoscience of tramp culture".

Defining the US-Mexico border as hyperreality

He explains the intellectual roots of the study of TEK, relating it to other emerging fields of environmental ethics, common property, and environmental history, all in turn rooted in ethnoscience and human ecology.