Scientific Knowledge & Indigenous Knowledge

Scientific Knowledge

·         Explore the nature and society

·         Identify laws

·         Seek explanation for relationship

·         Build theory

·         Use for prediction

·         Design technology

·         Documented

·         Explicit

·         Standardization

·         Global

·         Applicable

·         Knowledge of market economy

·         Mass production

·         Exploitative knowledge

Indigenous Knowledge

·         Explore the nature/society

·         Identify relationship

·         Do not seek explanation

·         Undocumented

·         Implicit

·         Non Standardization

·         Local specific

·         Less/not applicable to outside the original locality

·         Knowledge of subsistence economy

·         Small scale production

·         Harmonious knowledge with resources