Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

an authority and belief system that governs
•
explains the rules for use of natural
and
a knowledge that includes important
•
and value systems that, for example,
ethics
the use of this knowledge in
constrain
and exploitative practices
extractive
this chapter considers the difference
Later,
cultural appropriation and
between
and the question of intellectual
appreciation,
rights to protect and reward
property
Peoples’ knowledge. In relation
Indigenous
TEK and its applications, such as medicinal
to
and in particular the potential for
plants,
to monetize this knowledge, what
businesses
the arguments for and against treating it as
are
property? Property rights typically
intellectual
written documentation and proof of
require
Intellectual property rights are
ownership.
because TEK is preserved through
complicated
Tradition over generations. It is an issue of
Oral
knowledge, and not just about
acknowledging
it commercially: the significance
rewarding
a cosmology, that serves as a foundation for
•
assumptions and beliefs about nature,
the
world and the universe, and explains
the
place and role of human beings in
the
Indigenous knowledge generally goes
of
within the wider culture of
unacknowledged
what basis do TEK claims about health
On
illness, treatment and medicine compare
and
the claims of standard medical practice?
with
knowledges are needed to evaluate the
What
of medicinal knowledge traditions
effectiveness
practices? And how would we reward these
and
and anthropologist Charis Boke offers
Herbalist
perspective on this below, and similar themes
a
complexities arise in the case study on the
and
of folk medicine and global health
intersection
5III. Methods and tools
resources
the world.
science.
(Adapted from: Emery 1997; Houde 2007)
with the status of intellectual property?
inUganda.
Voices: Charis Boke on experience and evidence in traditional Western herbalism
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