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Including but not limited to Indigenous folks, LGBTQ+ folks, and racialized folks.
Lots of debates are going on among scholars, anthropologists, historians, and sociologists related to the issue of the Indigenous community in India and even at the world level. While discussing this particular issue, many fundamental questions are given: Which community is being called the indigenous community in India? What are the characteristic features of the Indigenous community? Why are they called the Indigenous community? Please drop some suggestive points to make it a fruitful discussion upon this serious issue undergoing in India.
how can cultural practices help in conservation of natural resources
how do cultural practices help to conserve natural resources
Culture media for Bioacclimitization of Cd and Cr by indigenous bacterial strains.
Context of this question is whether the reduction in use of health services is one of the benefits that is quantifiable after First Nations or Indigenous communities with troubled contact histories are granted by government greater control and access to their cultural heritage.
Where can I find the practical sharpest cutting-edge state-of-the-art technologies for ecologically and economically sound research so I can carry out crop production, protection, processing and storage research for immediate use by farmers in the tropics and subtropics?
Many farmers still use knives, hoes and cutlasses, and transport their produce using headloads and store them in home made structures. But many editors prefer razor-sharp cutting edge research that can be published in Nature. I feel that need based researchers like me are at a disadvantage.
What do I do: follow the need or the cutting-edge direction to stay on course?
Are indigenous technologies discarded forever?
The use of hybrid seeds is increasing, is it good practice or it will create threat to indigenous crop and leads to food insecurity in future?
I would like to write a literature review, to begin with, and continue to a more in-depth research paper, about the contributions of Indigenous American knowledge about healing and medicine that are used in western medicine practice today.
I am working on the mycoremediation of heavy metals by some identified indigenous fungi of industrial effluents, most of which are moulds, i want to know the mechanisms of action or if there is any gene or genes that are responsible for the processes
The IPBES assessment "Options for delivering sustainable approaches to health” is looking for examples where programs and policies have included indigenous and local knowledge. If you know some examples even are not fully documented your contribution will be appreciated.
(Add your answers in english, spanish, or french).
Thanks
I'm working with indigenous grain crops as food supply in Australia, and I would like to know if there is a dataset or any research paper that shows where are located these crops (mainly, but not restricted, Mitchell grass, kangaroo grass and native millet). I need the specific information of coordinates to find it on a map.
I am currently researching on social entrepeneurship and innovation in sub saharan Africa. However, I am looking for people who would like to co- join in writing papers on Social entrepreneurship, Innovation, indigenous entrepreneurship, youth employment and Agripreneurship in Africa.
Please contact me if you are interested.
I understand that muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) where indigenous to northern Manitoba but were extirpated during a commercial hunt in 1905. I am looking for confirmation but not having much luck. Thanks for any guidance you can offer.
Is promoting the rearing of small-sized animals’ (micro-livestock) a viable option for addressing the issue of climate change adversity in smallholder farming sector in Africa.
In this context micro-livestock refers to small indigenous vertebrates (goats, sheep, rabbits, guinea pigs, poultry (chickens, ducks, guinea fowls), etc.) and invertebrates (snails, rodents, lizards, insects, etc.) both domesticated and wild genetic animal resources which may be produced on a sustainable basis for food.
What would be the psychometric implications (if any) for using a research questionnaire containing scales in two languages i.e. Urdu and English, given that respondents are bilingual and proficient in both languages.
I will be using two scales that are in English and one indigenous scale that is in Urdu.
Many researchers are currently advocating field inoculation with exotic mycorrhizal fungi to increase the rate of root mycorrhizal infestation and improve the soil environment. However, do the exotic mycorrhizal fungi ban ecological threat to the indigenous mycorrhizal fungi during the process here? Does it affect and threaten the survival space of indigenous AMF and thus extinguish certain mycorrhizal fungi? Does such a destructive input actually bring positive/negative benefits to soil ecology and plants?
We are going to implement this idea in 2022 to try to see if analyzing the relevant field inoculations will bring some changes in citrus trees grown in open field, whether in the soil or in the root system? This is a question worth focusing on.
Hello, I have been struggling for quite some time with the operationalization of the "indigenous identity". The main idea is to set aside the primordialism - constructivism debate and focus on social practices. Any recommendations on that?
Many thanks
India is having large livestock population and livestock contributes more than 25 % GHGs which is responsible for climate change. So as a scientist our responsibility to reduce GHGs from livestock by adopting different strategies so that farmer can easily adopt technique. Pl focus on our indigenous and traditional technique
Hello everyone,
I am looking for links of audio datasets of indigenous Mexican languages that can be used in classification tasks in machine learning.
Thank you for your attention and valuable support.
Regards,
Cecilia-Irene Loeza-Mejía
I think that Cultural Diversity Responsive Education (CDRE) can be considered a more comprehensive approach to transformative education than inclusive education, indigenous perspectives, critical pedagogy, and so forth. As every society of the world becomes a culturally diverse society, we need to position our education through CDRE to ensure equitable learning opportunities to all learners of the classroom.
Give your opinion.
I am interested in finding articles and books to cite for a book I am writing on medical intuition. I am interested in all Indigenous traditions: African, Native American, Asian, South American, Australian, etc.
Hi,
I am working to develop a context-specific school-based indigenous wellness intervention program that can support indigenous youth in schools. At the moment, I am conducting an environmental scan of the literature to identify effective school-based indigenous wellness programs in specific indigenous contexts to guide my design.
I am therefore reaching out to experts and researchers in the field of education and indigenous education for suggestions and recommendations on relevant literature.
I appreciate your support.
Hello dear researchers and enthusiasts in the field of indigenous architecture
To answer this question, we can say that in indigenous architecture, by applying old principles and traditions in a modern way, these shortcomings can be eliminated. As a result, indigenous architecture was seen as a resource for finding solutions to some of the shortcomings and problems of modern architecture, as well as identifying the structure of society in different parts of the world.
Given the positive aspects of this type of trend, paying attention to this issue can lead to appropriate solutions to address many climate issues. These include heat and cold comfort, air conditioning and. . . Cited.
- With the growth and expansion of modern architecture and the appearance of its defects and shortcomings, architects decided to eliminate these shortcomings and deficiencies, so they turned to native architecture.
I am waiting for your interesting topics, dear ones from different parts of the world.
Which method do you think is more reliable and effective for the analysis of lipid biomarkers from the Precambrian? is cutting, hydropyrolysis or fluid inclusion assemblages analysis?
I’m looking for recommendations for qualitative and quantitative tools to be used with indigenous groups.
I am carrying out a lit review of the applications of restorative practices/ restorative justice/ restorative circles in K-12 education. I'm interested to hear from colleagues and practitioners as to the various applications which are made of this approach: Indigenous students, students with challenging behaviour, experimental schools, experiential contexts but also mainstream environments. Thanks
I am interested to document the indigenous dialects in Sarawak with the hope of publishing it in the form of dictionary. What is the best app (taking into consideration my limited knowledge on IT) to use for my purpose..?
Who are the leading Native American/Indigenous Philosophers that are currently researching current and past traditional philosophies?
I'm interested in Strategic Orientation and performance of Indigenous micro businesses. I'm also interested in internationalization of micro/small businesses. How can I come up with a novel Ph.D thesis topic in this area. I will appreciate scholarly contributions of experts in this area. Thank you.
The rural communities in western Sudan were loosed their native chicken and as results of aware since 2003, Soon will be endangered species. what shall we can do?
I'm interested to read what leading Indigenous academics have to say about the intersection between traditional or Indigenous knowledges/epistemologies, values/axiologies and ways of being/ontologies and their application in the context of teaching and learning at schools or universities. Any references or links greatly appreciated.
I want to know if indigenous yeast isolated from river polluted with wastewater from leather industry are potential for biodegradation. I also want to compare it with bacterial biodegradation for the same problems, and what is it advantages and disadvantages?
Recently, the Aymara intellectual Silvia Rivera Cusicanquí (Bolivia), has pointed out that "the decolonial is a fashion, the postcolonial a desire and the anti-colonial a struggle." Through this, she posits that in the face of the exhausted epistemological horizon of Eurocentric modernity there is a renewed interest in the knowledge that emerges in the context of the struggles for decolonization, however, there is no real political commitment on the part of scientists. The author points out: "the decolonial is a very recent fashion that, in some way, usufructs and reinterprets those processes of struggle, but I think it depoliticizes them, since the decolonial is a state or a situation but it is not an activity, it does not imply an agency, nor a conscious participation. I put the anti-colonial struggle into practice in fact, in some way, delegitimizing all forms of objectification and ornamental use of what is indigenous by the State. All of these are processes of symbolic colonization. "
I am interested in hearing and reading critical opinions about the decolonial turn in academic fashion. My question arises from some observations:
a) Epistemological violence in the social sciences that is claimed to be decolonial continues to be exercised from the Eurocentric "epistemological ratio". Where Latin America becomes a simple field of study. And where those of us who reflect from within the struggles for decolonization are erased from the map of knowledge production, since our texts are not referenced or academic extractivism is simply generated stealing local knowledge, exercising new forms of "indigenous folklorization".
b) The main references of decolonial thought are located in universities in hegemonic countries. The intellectual activists of Latin America who have a conscious ethic and struggle with social movements are excluded from the circuits of intellectual debate.
c) An important fracture of decolonial studies occurs in the defense of the Nation State and the progressive left governments of Latin America, such as Evo Morales and Maduro, and a rejection of radical left or indigenous proposals that are raised from anti-state perspectives , libertarian and autonomous.
d) The depoliticization and lack of ethics of many researchers who claim to be decolonial, who through practices of academic extractivism seek to scrutinize indigenous knowledge, have been financed with multi-million dollar research projects, financed by companies and state research corporations (Por example mitzubichi corporation), and whose impacts have contributed nothing to the struggles of those who dispute the territory.
We in village we don't have problem of production but we are facing a lot of problem related with market how technological advancement will support the small handler farmers🤔
In Ecuadorian Amazonia, where I am based, it seems like people in indigenous communities have managed very well through the covid-19 pandemic, in spite of very high rates of contagion. I know of two large communities, about 1400 and 2000 habitants, respectively, where most people took basically no precautions in order to avoid contagion, and now almost everybody have gone through the disease and then recovered. In the smaller community only one person died, an old male with previous medical conditions, and in the larger one nobody died. Nobody has even been taken to hospital. Among people from these communities who have migrated to urban areas, on the other hand, several people have died of covid (which seems to rule out genetic factors as an explanation).
Obviously the age structure plays a role, as about half of the population is under 20 years old. But I suspect that the reason for the low mortality also is either related to general lifestyle things or to self-medication with medicinal plants. I would love to investigate this further, but I have no research funds, and I am not myself an expert in medical science.
Any comments on this and advice on how to proceed forward would be highly appreciated!
I'm keen on similar work with regards to protection of indigenous art and art firms. Would like to associate or extrapolate in an area that may not be within the scope of your study in terms of the operable area.
I am perplexed about a situation that if one objective is to measure an indigenous scale on a construct such as "honour killing" and no prior theory is available or conceptual framework is available? Can we still do CFA because assumption of Cfa is to test and validate the prior theory.
Please do not just read, your reflective comment is highly needed
There are thousands of universities mostly in developing countries that are considered to be of 'low standard'. However, if graduates of such universities get opportunities for postgraduate programmes in developed countries they tend to, in many instances, outperform indigenous students of the developed countries. The same scenario is observed for practitioners such as medical personnel, engineers, and so on. This observation prompts me to ask the simple question: What constitutes a good university degree?
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In Ecuadorian Amazonia, where I am based (and where I do research related to the environment and renewable natural resources), it seems like people in indigenous communities have managed very well through the covid-19 pandemic, in spite of very high rates of contagion. I know of two large communities, about 1400 and 2000 habitants, respectively, where most people took basically no precautions in order to avoid contagion, and now almost everybody have gone through the disease and then recovered. In the smaller community only one person died, an old male with previous medical conditions, and in the larger one nobody died. Nobody has even been taken to hospital. Among people from these communities who have migrated to urban areas, on the other hand, several people have died of covid (which seems to rule out genetic factors as an explanation).
Obviously the age structure plays a role, as about half of the population is under 20 years old. But I suspect that the reason for the low mortality also is either related to general lifestyle things or to self-medication with medicinal plants. I would love to investigate this further, but I have no research funds, and I am not myself an expert in medical science.
It would be interesting to hear what researchers in the field have to say about this. Any suggestions on how I myself could proceed in order to investigate this issue would also be welcome.
My research team is looking for current research on the experience of indigenous Elders, particularly American Indian and Alaska Native Elders, in the USA who have been residing in long-term care settings in the midst of COVID-19. This is a particularly vulnerable person group, and we are concerned about what is being done to assist them and their carers. We are also interested in the plight of indigenous Elders worldwide in the context of the pandemic. Thank you for any information you have to share.
I'm working with some tribes from Ecuador but I haven't found the way to link gamification to indigenous games. Help. Alll your suggestions are more than welcome.
I am interested in gathering information about their acceptability, the co-designing/ developing process, integration of Indigenous Psychology frameworks and worldviews from various communities and their transferability to smartphone apps (e.g. studies conducted among Aboriginal tribe, Maori community and Pasifika population and other indigenous communities), and any RCTs that have been successfully conducted - even if this research area is still in infancy.
The farmers are cultivating an unregistered land-race for a long period; if I wish to register this variety, what are the legal procedure and how to register it.
Our Government of India has invited proposals to research the uniqueness of indigenous cow.
My question in this regard is ...... Is it good to spend their money of the people on the very presumptuous and unscientific cow urine, dung and milk?
Around the world, scientists are wondering about this flawed document published by DST, Govt. of India.
The answers should consist of personal experiences, indigenous meanings. Please avoid giving bookish definition.
When I was reading a paper or writing a paper, I always find the words "indigenous" and "autochthonous". These two words confused me a lot. So I want to know whether there are some differences between these two words or not.
Academic research has been challenging for many local communities as it does not serve community needs. Moreover, many local communities see the term "research" is a different form of colonization for their community, land, and culture, particularly for many Indigenous communities. As a researcher, this is high time to transform our research into community capacity building. What are your perspectives on this challenge from your research? How are you trying to solve this?
How do you stain endoplasmic reticulum? I looked into a couple of kits available in market. Any suggestions on indigenous method at lower cost please?
We are working on the indigenous traditional foods and optimizing their shelf life. We need to know about the process of conducting the accelerated storage study of the foods.
Our National resources include Iron, Coal, Limestone. Vishwakarma uses the recycled Iron billets from cupola, charcoal briquets of casuarina and seashell lime mortar for household usages as per the age old tradition. I would like to know the contribution of such indigenous process and material in the Nation building exercise.
While conducting fieldwork among indigenous communities belonging to other cultures, anthropologists often wrongly record and analyze their field data. This is the prime reason why our analysis many time does not correspond to the ground realities. Therefore it is extremely important for the anthropologists to validate their observations by rechecking their interpretations with the participants of the said event/incident. Under such situation, what field technique is advocated for reducing subjectivity in our analysis of the interpretations of the observation?
In the Green List framework , a timeframe of 100 years is proposed to evaluate the recovery potential of species.
Conservation gain is evaluated over the greatest of 3 generations or 50 years. However, what if 3 generations (future gain) are longer than 100 years (future recovery)? This (3 generations greater than 100 years) is the case for longer lived slower growing species.
As we have such an incomplete picture of the worlds species, could future recovery be the greatest of 5 generations or 100 years? Is there an upper time limit that we can reasonably use for future recovery?
Definitions from
Conservation gain: “A suitable time frame for assessing conservation dependence and gain is 3 generations or 10 years, whichever is longer, consistent with the current Red Listing process and providing a realistic time scale for incentivizing conservation action.”
Recovery potential: “setting an aspirational yet achievable vision for the recovery of a species, estimating the maximum plausible improvement that could be achieved in occupancy, viability and functionality across the (indigenous and projected) range of the species, given its life history and habitat characteristics, and the likely land and resource use and recovery technology over the next 100 years.”
In most part of Nigeria little or no research has been carried out on documenting the indigenous mycorrhizal fungi present in soils around the country. If one is to carry out this researches, what proper approach, methods, designs & materials would be required to properly carry out this research?
We were planning to develop a project focusing on R&D of African indigenous fermented foods such as the Ethiopian fluffy flat bread called injera and the Sudanese similar product called Kisra. We are trying to collect information on similar attempts so that we avoid unnecessary duplication and build up on already established knowledge.
Kindly share us articles and reports on the same efforts made before. We are also open to collaborations on this endeavor on the basis of clearly defined roles.
Are there any studies that have focused on medicinal plants being utilized by Indigenous Communities and the extraction method used in such for TLC?
I am actually looking for possible references to suit a study being conceptualized about indigenous plant medicines. If there are any existing studies out there, those will be of great help!
I am researching the benefits or otherwise and the efficacy of ‘cultural safety‘ as a concept and practice in maternity care in New Zealand.
Solomon Islands is a country made up of 9 Provinces, with their own various dialects, traditions and way of life.
Importance of learning these cultures, will enable an entity:
- To appreciate the value of respect;
- To engage in sincere collaboration;
- To appreciate traditional beliefs;
- To help protect Indigenous Intellectual Property rights;
- To help the indigenous people excel their creativity and intelligence; &
- To appreciate traditional rules of land management and conflict resolutions.
Dear Ms. Curtin,
I am interested in doing my MA research in Indigenous tourism and Reconciliation here in Canada, particularly the west coast. Could you tell me more about your research?
Best regards,
Daniel
I have 445 samples and there are thirteen categories of demographic variables as; academic position, gender, age, ethnicity, qualification, experiences, university, department, participation in conferences, publication, study hour, thesis guidance and engaged in other university.
I'm looking at the discourses that hinder or enable their inclusion in higher education.
What is the relationship between the African indigenous religious space and Christianity
Hello,
I am looking for a seminal reference (a book or a review paper) that shows the ways in which conceiving of conservation initiatives without the input and inclusion of indigenous people has been detrimental to both the conservation outputs and the wellbeing of the indigenous people. It could be global or with an Amazonian focus.
Thanks,
Jena
I am seeking research by indigenous scholars in the area of environmental sustainability and tribal oral tradition.
Tuberculosis is still a major health problem in most developing countries and its incidence is rising in many developed countries. This resurgence has been attributed to the HIV epidemic and TB has been declared as a global health emergency by WHO in 1993. The diagnosis of tuberculosis mainly depends upon initial clinical suspicion and radiographic findings with subsequent bacteriological confirmation by sputum smear examination and culture. Lack of sensitivity in smear examination, non specificity of radiological findings, extended tum around time ofMycobacterium tuberculosis culture and difficulties in diagnosing paucibacillary, childhood and extrapulmonary tuberculosis has necessitated to explore the utility of immunodiagnosis of tuberculosis as a convenient and cost effective test to supplement clinical information for definite diagnosis. Many commercial tests are available in the market for diagnosis of TB. Most of these tests are based on the detection of IgG, IgA and IgM antibodies to specific mycobacterial antigen or mixture of antigens. Indigenous immunoassay systems have explored excretory-secretory ES-31 mycobacterial antigen for immunodiagnosis of TB. Many a time there is lack of consistent elevation in all the three Ig classes in active infection thus making it more important to determine the ideal antibody isotype assay for reliable diagnosis of tuberculosis and to save the costs of the patient for unnecessary investigations.
Tuberculosis is still a major health problem in most developing countries and its incidence is rising in many developed countries. This resurgence has been attributed to the HIV epidemic and TB has been declared as a global health emergency by WHO in 1993. The diagnosis of tuberculosis mainly depends upon initial clinical suspicion and radiographic findings with subsequent bacteriological confirmation by sputum smear examination and culture. Lack of sensitivity in smear examination, non specificity of radiological findings, extended tum around time ofMycobacterium tuberculosis culture and difficulties in diagnosing paucibacillary, childhood Indigenous immunoassay systems have explored excretory-secretory ES-31 mycobacterial antigen for immunodiagnosis of TB. Many a time there is lack of consistent elevation in all the three Ig classes in active infection thus making it more important to determine the ideal antibody isotype assay for reliable diagnosis of tuberculosis
I do not intend to submit journal articles, but brief and specific descriptions of a rural technique relating to cattle handling.
My research task is to delve into Irish indigenous wisdom and find any evidence of practices, concepts, rituals etc that society, at particular times in Irish history, offered to young makes to assist them transition / transform to adult manhood in a healthy manner.
Hello.
I am wanting to confirm or not that indigenous workers are among the most at-risk in the world.
Any empirical data would inform my writing.
Thank you.
What are the indigenous (domestic or native) theories of entrepreneurship? To be clear, I mean theories that are not borrowed or imported from other disciplines. I am looking for a list of such theories. Thanks!
Edit: While theories about entrepreneurship by indigenous peoples are very interesting too, I want to reiterate here that I'm interested in theories that were developed within the field of entrepreneurship, for the exclusive purpose of explaining/predicting entrepreneurial phenomena, as opposed to theories that are imported from other fields like economics, sociology or psychology.
Hello, I found high abundances of these ribbon worms ( nemerta ) in my samples from a marina in Brittany (France) and I would like to put a species name on these considering their abundance.
I figured they might be a Tetrastemmidae due to the four eyes in rectangular pattern. Tetrastemma Cephalophorum has a very similar head to my candidates, however the color pattern is quite different since usually only have two longitudinal streaks.
Oerstedia dorsalis (Prosorhochmidae) might also be a possibility.
The individuals are 1 cm-1.3 cm max. length and 1 mm-2 mm wide (cylindrical). Since they were found in a marina they don't necessarily are indigenous to Europe.
Wild plants are an untapped neglected food source left behind from the Neolithic revolution .
To meet the needs of growing population, scientists are on the way to introduce new crop/plant varieties. The indigenous species are going to disappear. But we have a new high yielding variety. It is genetic enhancement or genetic erosion?
Why we need to keep the old less productive variety?
Hi, I came across your iGuide challenge paper. I am a teacher in the ACT at a school with high number of indigenous students. As it happens I am aware of B. Bernstein. I am very influenced by Paulo Freire too. Pedagogies, school wellbeing and disadvantage is a key concern as well.
regards,
Peter
What research methods/techniques are used to document indigenous technologies?
Hi Marcia,
The PhD I am finishing off has looked at English as a barrier for EALD Indigenous students in HE. I would be keen to be involved with your project if there is an opportunity.
Much appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.
With kind regards,
Ganesh Koramannil
The Kusum (Schleichera oleosa), belongs to the family Sapindaceae, indigenous to Indo-China subcontinent. I want to know the basic chromosome number before I proceed to further studies. Kindly help me.
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