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GLOBAL RESPONSIBILITY AND LOCAL KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
DATU MIGKETAY VICTORINO L. SAWAY Talaandig Tribe
Sungko, Lantapan, BukidnonMindanao, Philippines
BACKGROUND
Ethnic Group: TALAANDIG
Population: 100,000 (approximately)
Location: Province of Bukidnon,
Philippines
Ancestral Territory: Mt. Kitanglad and Surrounding Municipalities
Area: 43,000 (approximately)
OBJECTIVES
• To discuss the origin of local knowledge based on the Talaandig story of creation.
• To explain the concept of a global responsibility based on the framework and structures of local knowledge
• To discuss the significance of the common sense as basis of identifying the link between
local knowledge and global science.
ORIGIN AND SOURCES OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
• Framework of Creation
• Cultural Integrity Framework
• Territorial Integrity Framework
• The Human Body
• The House
• The Community
• The Culture
• The Earth
FRAMEWORK OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
• A formulation of an Indigenous Peoples Comprehensive Plan for survival and development requires two important framework:
1) The Cultural Integrity Framework that significantly includes indigenous beliefs and religion, oral history and knowledge systems, customary laws, economic system and health practices, and, indigenous defense.
2) The Territorial Integrity Framework that cover ancestral lands and domain's, ancestral waters, forests, mountains, natural and biological resources including air, sun sounds and spirits.
• Figure I. Framework and Structure of Local Knowledge
HUMAN BODY
HOUSE FAMILY COMMUNITY CULTURE EARTH
Flesh Kitchen, Cooking
Place
Women / Mothers
Farm and Food Area
Territory/ Domain
Land
Blood Bamboo tube /Water jars
Young and Elder Women
Fishing, washing area
Health and Family
Waters, Rivers
Bones, Veins and Stomach
Fireplace Parents Crops, hunting games,
granaries
Economy Plants, trees, wildlife/ forest
Legs and Feet
Pillar, Door., Ladder
Young men/ Males
Warriors, Messengers
Defense/ Security
Air
Eyes Window Elders Blacksmith, Artisans
Leadership/ Energy
Sun
Mouth Reception Hall
Old Folks, Children
Oral History, Chants, Tales
Language Sounds
Head/ Brain/ Heart
Roof, Walls Old Folks, Elders
Spirituality, Shamanism
Beliefs/ Sensitivity
Spirits
CHARACTERISTICS OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
• Unwritten and Expressed in Oral Traditions
• Communally and Collectively Owned
• Closely associated with Nature
• Universal in Principle
• Dynamic and Systematic
• Understood through the Common Sense
• A common heritage
FORMS AND EXPRESSIONS OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE
• Social, i.e., oral history and traditions, epic chanting, instruments playing , healing, etc.
• Economic, i.e., hunting, food gathering,planting harvesting, etc.
• Political, i.e., customary mediation, arbitration, peace negotiations, defense etc.
• Spiritual, i.e., religious ceremonies, worshipping, rituals, etc.
PRINCIPLES OF EXPANSION OF KNOWLEDGE
• Horizontal Approach, i.e. Individual person as male or females, brothers or sisters; male or female cousins; male or female relatives of the same generation, etc.
• Vertical Approach, i.e. male or female son or daughter; male or female parents; male or female grandparents; male or female ancestors, etc.
SIGNIFICANCE OF LOCAL KNOWLEDGE IN A MULTI-SCALE
ASSESSMENT SYSTEM• Relationships of the physical constitution of the
human body to the physical constitution of nature/earth.
• Identification of Variables i.e., social variables, economic variables, political variables and spiritual variables, that provides basis of understanding cultural evolution and change.
• Principle of Harmony and Balance in relation with the natural course of change
• A Principle of Accountability• A Principle of Survival and Self-preservation
GLOBAL ACCOUNTABILITY
• Protecting and Preserving the earth and nature as the physical foundation of human survival
• Maintaining the harmony and balance between human culture and nature
• Cultural Accounting and Accountability• Awareness of Cultural and Environmental
Impacts• A Common Sense Method
COMMON SENSE AS THE LINK
• Theoretical and Conceptual Aspect of Common Sense, i.e. concept, idea, philosophy and principle.
• Practical and Validity Aspect of Common Sense, i.e. heard, seen, smelt, touched, tasted, felt, moved.
• Common Sense as a logical process and a system• Common Sense as the basis human manipulation and
interventions with nature• The integrity of Common Sense as a tool of local
knowledge and modern science• Common Sense as mother of all sciences
SUMMARY
• Principle of Interdependency, e.g. the human being was created for the world and the world for the human being
• Role as Custodian of Creation/ Accountability • Common Sense or “Common Science” as the Common
Ground between local and modern knowledge • Physical Constitution of Nature as Source Book of Local
Knowledge and the Basic Resources of Technological and “Scientific” Intervention and Manipulations
• Principle of Balance and Harmony as a necessity to both local and global science.
THANK YOU!