Dear Napoleon,

Thank you for your reply to my question. My PhD focuses on this topic and I do hope that I will get more responses from the Research Gate community.

G'day Jelina

I think it's an awesome PhD topic.  I've worked alongside many Maori in the past e.g. research, programme management, disability support services, and greatly value their indigenous knowledge.  They hold their elders in very high regard.  I suggest Linda Tuhiwai Smith's seminal text 'Decolonizing methodologies: research and indigenous peoples' as recommended reading towards your project.  She was also a good lecturer.

All the best

Nite

PS: Maori are the indigenous people of Aotearoa (NZ). 

Thank you Nite,

I have Margaret Kovach (Indigenous Methodologies) and Lori Lambert (Research for Indigenous Survival). I noticed, that you are at Monash, my Associate Supervisor (Joanne Evans) is from Monash Uni as well. I have been following closely the Maori Culture and the Metis from Canada as they are more active indigenous group. My research focuses on one community in South Australia.

You're welcome Jelina.  It sounds like you're on to it and in very good hands, I'm doing my PhD in the Faculty of Education.  Go well!

Very interesting PhD  area of research Jelina. What methods do you used for your research? Many research look at their knowledge contribution to improve agriculture and natural resource. May be your can explore other part of economic value of their knowledge beside those. And find the suitable theory to explain about how you persuasive the value of their knowledge either tacit or explicit K. All the best with your research..  

Hi Norazila,

Thank you for the suggestion comment. The questions posted here are my T-Test of how academics response to my questions and it is really interesting to know that everybody react differently  with varying views in terms of indigenous issues. I am focusing on indigenous information behaviour a new field for information sciences (IS).

Hi Jelina,

My suggestion is that you should look at some postcolonial studies (as suggested by Francesco) in places other than Europe and North America. 

Personal field encounter have shown that there is expertise and specialisation among the elderly people, where many had in most cases referred me to another person believed to be knowledgeable on a particular narrative. Sometimes, they will regrettably make reference to a dead person whom they believed was more conversant with the narrative I wanted from them. This is a prove of some kind of authenticity of the information they give and go to prove that they are also truthful in their knowledge sharing.  

By dividing between written and non-written histories is like accepting the "authorised heritage" and rejecting the inclusion which now put into consideration the intangible. Also, it means restricting yourself to the divide between history and prehistory. In both cases, postcolonial discourses suggest that his approach should be improved upon for an inclusive and more detailing approach and rejecting such 'authority' which characterised "authorised heritage" on one hand and prehistory on the other. I hope that my opinion help in clarifying your question.

Indigenous elders have more intrinsic knowledge and living skills, which can be felt, experienced and learned only when being with them in their domains.

There are many cases, I have studied among the Australian tribes.

The tacit infrastructure is the foundational philosophy from which an individual approaches knowledge, interprets experience, and asserts what is real. It finds expression in statements that are made openly and believed to be true, although the individual making those assertions may not be aware of the deeply rooted assumptions upon which they are based. It is one’s perception of the Universe as seen from within and looking out. It is the inner point of reference that interprets how everything else is seen in relation to one’s self and how a person internally categorizes people into groups. A culture’s particular epistemology, or theory of knowledge, encompasses the doctrines and assumptions of that culture and addresses such questions as what it means to know and how knowledge is validated.

http://philliphduran.net/indigenous-worldviews-and-western-science/

I have a passion to study the work of indegenous, one such work is the bone setting

The scope of traditional bone setting includes areas such as fracture and dislocation management, marma chikitsa /varma kalai (diagnosing and treating a health condition through understanding of vital points in the body) management of injuries and its complications, management of complicated conditions such as congenital anomalies like club foot etc., different types of oil therapies. Some of the bonesetters manage compound forearm fractures that need surgical intervention or dislocations in a relatively simple way

http://www.bibalex.org/Search4Dev/files/416876/362434.pdf

A nice study about the topic is available here:

Abstract

As a result of mass migration from Samoa to neighbouring countries during the 1950s and 1960s, there are now more Samoans living outside of their homeland than there are within the country itself. As many Samoan migrants are getting older, there is an urgent need to transfer the wealth of indigenous knowledge that they possess to the younger generations before it is too late. This is to ensure the survival

of Samoa’s culture, heritage, customs, traditions and principles. This research uses semi-structured interviews with eight New Zealand based grandparents to understand the phenomena at hand. The aim of this study is to find out what types of indigenous knowledge that older NZ-based Samoans consider desirable for retention by younger NZ-born Samoans. Emergent results include the importance of Fa’aSamoa (Samoan way of life) which lies at the very core of all things Samoan, the church, respect (fa’aaloalo) for elders, the Samoan language and the importance of family.

Keywords: Indigenous knowledge, traditional knowledge, Samoa

http://www.pacis-net.org/file/2014/2103.pdf

Thank you Mahamad,

I really appreciate for sharing the paper, it is a perfect paper and very useful, especially now that I started collecting data in the field.

Hi Krishnan,

Thank you for sharing post and the link of the paper, somehow your post disappear on the thread. So I don't know what happened.

The tribal women gather many forest products (minor forest products or MFP) for food, drink, fodder, medicine, and house-building, as well as for agricultural or other domestic purposes. There is a seasonal variation in the availability of different products for household consumption.

http://medind.nic.in/ibl/t11/i3/iblt11i3p226.pdf

I might not responding each question but I am grateful for all the post on my page especially those responding to my question, it means you all took time to read my question and shared your experiences and for that really appreciate it. 

required topic( tacit and explicit knowledge) is nicely explained in the attached research paper on page no. 73