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Science is a multicultural enterprise that benefits from and indeed requires competing views.
While industry bodies fight over who can claim that their mānuka honey is authentic, Māori interests are often left out of the debate.
Many Native languages are dying, and their loss has deep and profound implications for our world.
A double standard exists concerning the acceptance of Traditional Knowledge by practitioners of Western science.
Like many Indigenous groups around the world, the James Bay Cree of northern Québec have a disproportionately high rate of diabetes. They’re facing it down with a decidedly Indigenous solution.
In north-east India, children of the Khasi Hills (Meghalaya) learn slash and burn cultivation, an intergenerational yet controversial indigenous practice.
Knowledge is power. If you own it, you can control those without it. Since so much knowledge about Africa doesn't sit on the continent, it's apparent that Africa lacks power in this regard.
The decolonisation debate in South Africa's universities raises critical issues about the relationship between power, knowledge and learning.
Traditional knowledge that drives indigenous communities’ innovation in agriculture, medicine and conservation is not protected by existing international law.
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Professor of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
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