INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY

• • How our ancestors developed  alternative ideas in explaining various phenomena and in explaining the world around them.
  • Develop practices that caters daily needs
  • Influence of Spaniards, Japanese and Americans

    -take us in full control (ungo, aswang, maligno)

    -religious practices (6:00 pm prayer, Holly Rosary)

    -to make Filipinos productive worker

  Pamahiin/Too-too
• is embedded in the daily life experiences of young children as they grow old.

  Indigenous knowledge
• • A prominent practice, and lessons people learned are intimately interwoven with their culture and the environment (variations in diff. regions).
  • Parents and older folks serves as their first teachers in transmitting cultural knowledge in their minds  
  • pamahiin/too-too

   - food production, weather, medicine, religious belief

  • Lessons comprise good values & life stories of people on their daily struggles.

  Indigenous knowledge
• customary beliefs, social forms and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group

  culture
• diversions or a way of life shared by people in a place or time

  culture
• Indigenous Science is part of the indigenous knowledge system  practiced by different groups of people & early civilizations.


  (Gribbin 2001,:Mkapa 2004,: Sibisi 2004)
• Indigenous Science is collectively lived in & experienced by the people of a given culture.

   

  (Pawilen,2005 ; Ogawa 1995)
• Indigenous Science includes everything from Metaphysics to Philosophy & various practical technologies (by indigenous people both past & present.


  (Cajete2004)
• It includes complex arrays of knowledge, expertise, practices & representations that guide human societies in their enumerable interactions with the natural milieu:

  Indigenous Science
• Indigenous Science

  • uses Science process skills
  • guided by Community Culture and Values
  • composed of Traditional Knowledge
• Indigenous beliefs (as cited by Johnston 2000)

  1.Motivating attitudes2.Cooperating attitudes3.Practical attitudes4.Reflective attitudesIndigenous beliefs (as cited by Johnston 2000)

  1.Motivating attitudes2.Cooperating attitudes3.Practical attitudes4.Reflective attitudes
• Indigenous beliefs (as cited by Johnston 2000)

  1.Motivating attitudes2.Cooperating attitudes3.Practical attitudes4.Reflective attitudesIndigenous beliefs (as cited by Johnston 2000)

  1.Motivating attitudes2.Cooperating attitudes3.Practical attitudes4.Reflective attitudes
• which prescribes a regulatory framework for the prospecting of biological and genetic resources, their by-products and derivatives, for scientific and commercial purposes, and for other purposes

  Executive order no. 247, 1995
• An act to recognize, protect and promote the rights of indigenous cultural communities/indigenous people, creating a national commission of indigenous people, establishing implementing mechanisms, appropriating funds therefore, and for other purposes

  Indigenous Peoples' Rights Act (IPRA), or Republic Act 8317
• which created the Philippine Institute of Traditional and Alternative Health Care (PITAHC) in 2000, providing for a Traditional and Alternative Health Care Development Fund and for other purposes;

  Traditional and Alternative Medicine Act, 1997
• the process to preserve food with salt water or vinegar

  Pickling
• occurs when a haploid gamete fuses with a diploid gamete, resulting in triploid plant, which is sterile.

  Autoploidy
• Acording to Waddy in 1988, aboriginal people (Australia) classify plants & animals in various ways, with the simplest being the binary classification (plants).
• Natives' Best Practices

  • Can be define as Technologies employed by the native inhabitants of a country.
  • Preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional life styles.
  • Promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of benefits arising from them
• is a three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials such as :

    -Marble

    -Metal

    -Glass

    -Wood

    -Plastics

  • to materials such as clay, textiles polymers and softer metals

  Sculpture
• • means to make cloth and other objects

  Weaving
• • Done by inersecting the longitunidal threads, the warp, with the transverse thread.


  Weaving
• • Threads or strands of material are passed under and over each other.


  Weaving
• • Witch doctor
  • Commonly found in the more rural areas of the Philippines
  • Heals people using herbs and traditional practices such as hilot or massage.
  • Very traditional and superstitious.

  Albularyo
• ¨Made from an instrument constructed in bamboo and razor-sharp lemon thorns


  Mambabatok
• ¨Design is marked onto the skin using long strips of straight grass, dipped in simple mixture of charcoal and water

  mambabatok
• MAMBABATOK

  ¨Ethnic group; Kalinga
• Extensive Tattoos and Rituals

  • Northern Mountain tribes people of the Cordillera Region known as Cordilleras or Igorots
  • Practices headhunting and one of the reason behind tattooing.
  • Believed tattoos possessed spiritual powers and magical qualities which gave them strength and protection.Used to reward a warrior after a successful headhunt expedition
• Known by many names which include goose grass, wild grass, carabao grass and dog’s tail, a tropical plant and can usually be found in river banks and along the roads


  Paragis or “Eleusine Indica”.
• A new “miracle” plant because of its alleged benefits and power to cure various ailments, including cancer.


  Paragis or "Eleusine Indica"
• Against inflammation and a natural antihistamine or anti-allergy treatment

  Paragis or "Eleusine Indica"
• for toothache. Fry and pulverize then put inside the aching tooth.


  Red ant (angiyawan)
• for stomach ache. Pulverized and mixed it with water and drink.


  uling (charcoal)
• for wounds or for those who are newly circumcised. Pulverized the dried coconut shell then apply to the wounds.


  coconut shell
• is good for sore eyes. 

  The mother breast milk
• usually done to hasten body or muscle pain.

  Hilot
• kidney problems

  Cogon Grass Roots
• kidney problems

  Cogon Grass Roots