traditional knowledge
Heritage passed down
Traditional knowledge is information, practices, and skills developed and passed down through generations within a community, typically indigenous or local peoples.
It encompasses understanding of plants, animals, medicine, agriculture, and the environment accumulated over centuries of direct experience with a particular place.
Traditional knowledge often exists outside formal documentation, transmitted orally or through apprenticeship: The treaty recognized traditional knowledge as intellectual property.
In legal and policy contexts, debates arise over protecting traditional knowledge from exploitation by outside parties.
- storytellingRecounting events aloud
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- proverbsTraditional wisdom capsules
- dream interpretationAnalyzing nocturnal vision symbolism
spirit world · ethnobotany · craft techniques · cultural heritage · ancestral wisdom · culture · fire management · customs · seed saving · food preservation · ceremonial practices · oral · land stewardship · wisdom · rituals · harvest · seasons · healing
- Native educationtribal schools, tribal colleges, boarding schools, language immersion, day schools
- knowledgebook learning, encyclopedia, reference book, dictionary, thesaurus
- proverbsproverbs, sayings, maxims, adages, aphorisms
- wisdomwisdom, sagacity, sapience, discernment, insight
- Indigenous CanadaFirst Nations, Metis, Inuit, Cree, Ojibwe
- Indigenous cultureancestors, ancestry, ancestral lands, ancestral lineage, animal totems
traditional knowledgeformal education
Systematic study in institutions
classroom learning · book learning · university education · modern science · scientific knowledge
traditional knowledgemodern science
Post-Enlightenment systematic investigation
positivism · scientific knowledge · specialized knowledge · expert systems · quantitative research
traditional knowledgecutting-edge research
Newest scholarly investigation
innovation · futurism · emerging technology · disruptive technology
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