I am completing a state of the art for my doctoral thesis on valuation of traditional knowledge in the Colombian Amazon. I am interested in making a deconstruction of the concept of traditional knowledge that occurs in the discourses of local organizations and institutions that instrumentalize it on specific projects.
Hi,
You could check this article: Development and the Documentation of Indigenous
Knowledge: Good Intentions in Bad Company?
Good luck,
Olof
http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1552244&fileOId=4538744
I did so - from a rather Foucaultian perspective and working on Sumak Kawsay or Buen Vivir. Now, I don't work with the concept of traditional knowledge (I would say that does not fit a discourse analytical approach) - so I don't know if I am being helpful...
Ah, but at least some generals: I find Hobsbawn and his invented traditions quite helpful to understand the political use of "traditional knowledge", the same goes for Spivak and the subalterns.
Article El Sumak Kawsay en el discurso del movimiento indígena ecuatoriano
If you are trying to value TK (from an endogenous perspective) you are much better using psychometric scaling that using exogenous lenses such as posatstructuralism and phenomology!
In common with Altmann I have often critiqued the western treatment of TK from a Foucaultian perspective
Dr John Studley
In a very general perspective and not about Colombian Amazon, but maybe you can find suggestions in my book, if you read Italian: La buona creanza. Antropologia dell'ospitalità (Carocci 2013). In this book I quoted the important research of a collegue of mine, Elisa Galli (PhD), Migrar trasformandose. Género y esperiencias onìricas entre los Runas de la Amazonìa equatoriana, Abya-Yala, Quito 2012.
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