Dark local knowledge: the yet-to-be scientifically discovered and locally acknowledged aspects of local knowledge systems.
Dark local knowledge
Local knowledge
Local knowledge systems
Situated knowledge
Traditional ecological knowledge
Traditional practice
Unknown unknown
Journal
Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine
ISSN: 1746-4269
Titre abrégé: J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101245794
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
13 May 2024
13 May 2024
Historique:
received:
23
03
2024
accepted:
07
05
2024
medline:
14
5
2024
pubmed:
14
5
2024
entrez:
14
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
This essay brings forward the idea that there is more than meets the eye in local knowledge systems than what science can show us now. To comprehend this, we need to make a conceptual jump and look for the "dark matter" (the notion borrowed from astronomy that refers to a hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with light or electromagnetic fields) that can potentially sustain local knowledge. Considering that it is a complex of knowledge, practices, and beliefs contained in TEK, knowledge in LEK does not correspond to the notion of knowledge in science. Therefore, in order to map LEK-science interactions, we will refer to the concept of peoples' knowledge of LEK as acknowledgement and the scientific recognition and awareness of information, facts, and principles as knowledge. Applying this to a Johari Window, we can observe four categories of LEK in a known-unknown/acknowledged-unacknowledged matrix. We can refer to unknown and unacknowledged as dark local knowledge. Indeed, local knowledge systems contain many aspects that modern science cannot yet explain, as a major part of its components are not even considered in scholarly research. Dark local knowledge can potentially provide us with the invaluable touch of experience of countless generations, opening different ways of seeing reality.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38741150
doi: 10.1186/s13002-024-00692-x
pii: 10.1186/s13002-024-00692-x
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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