Indigenous Knowledge System

• Indigenous knowledge system is ______?


  is embedded in the daily life experiences of young children as they grow up.
• A prominent practice, and lessosn with people learned are intimately?


  intimately INTERWOVEN with their culture and environment.

  Lessons comprise good values & life stories of people on their daily struggles.
• One particular example in Indigenous Knowledge System is?

  Female Circumcission
• Female Circumsission is also referred to as?


  Female Genital Mutilation
• Key facts about female genital muitlation?

  female gential mutilation include procedures that intentionally alter or cause injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. Could be culture etc.

  The procedure has no medical benefit for girls and women.
• key facts about female genital mutilation (contd.)


  Procedures can cause Severe Bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, as well as complications in childbrith and increased risk of newborn deaths.
• key facts about female genital mutilation (contd.) (2)

  More than 200 million girls and women alive today have been cut in 30 countries in AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST, and ASIA where FGM is concentrated.
• key facts about female genital mutilation (contd.) (3)

  FGM is mostly carried out on young girls between infancy and age 15.

  FGM IS A VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS of girls and women
• What are cultures?


  cultures are customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits, of a racial, religious, or social group.
• cultures are also described as


  diversions or a way of life shared by people in a place or time.
• Define the culture of bride kidnapping

  Bride kidnapping, also known as marriage by abduction or marriage by capture, is a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry.
• In what places is bride kidnapping a culture?

  Central Asia, the 'Caucasus' region, and parts of Africa, and among people as diverse as the 'Hmong' in Southeast Asia, the Tzeltal in Mexico, and the Romani in Europe.
• What does this show?

  Bride capture