ITK TEST 1 - 09.03.23

Which of the following statements is incorrect

• TK is distinctly associated with an indigenous or local community, which preserves and transmits it from generation to generation.
• TK is old and static.
• TK is generated, preserved and transmitted in a traditional and intergenerational context.
• TK is not limited to any specific technical field.

Which of the following is not correct about indigenous knowledge

• It emerges as people’s perception and experience in an environment, at a given time
• It emerges in a continuous process of observation and interpretation
• It emerges in a continuous process of contemplation and application
• It emerges in relation to the locally acknowledged everyday rationalities and transcendental powers

Which of the following is true about religion

• It binds us to an external force
• It stabilizes our meaningful interaction with the world
• It bridge the gap between the known and the unknown (the profane and sacred)
• All of the above

How do you say Indigenous knowledge cannot be displaced out of its local context into another one and used for national and international network

• It is an autochthonous empirical experience and only valid as a world in its place of origin
• It is an autochthonous theoretical experience and only valid as a world in its place of origin
• It is an autochthonous empirical experience and only valid as a world in its place of origin
• It is an autochthonous theoretical experience and only valid as a world in its place of origin

What is the influence of scientific knowledge?

• It is disseminated through epistemic communities.
• It has played a key role in the creation of framework conventions and control protocols.
• It has particularly influenced the discourse of climate change.
• All of the options given are correct.

Choose the following in which ‘ecological journey’ begins with understanding nature, and concludes by discussing an

• Evolving eco-sociology
• Evolving eco-philosophy
• Evolving eco-psychology
• Evolving eco-science

Choose the following in which the study of indigenous ecological knowledge often emphasize that

• Indigenous perceptions of ecological linkages are not consistent with western postulates on causality
• Classification and naming of animals and plants among non-literate, traditional peoples reflect similarities in people’s largely unconscious appreciation of ‘nature’s basic plan
• Taxonomic categories and criteria for classification do not correspond to those of western science
• All the mentioned

Choose the following in which the idea that the group lives in the individual relates to indigenous peoples' orientation of

• no identity
• a personal identity
• a collective identity
• an individual identity

Which of the following is not a characteristics of traditional knowledge

• The creation of TK is collective and holistic
• TK is changeable, and may evolve because of changes in the social environment
• Oral transmission of TK from generation to generation
• Faith

Which of the following is not true about coexistence approach to indigenous knowledge

• It devalues Western or Indigenous resource management practices and the knowledge that informs them
• It does not devalue Western or Indigenous resource management practices and the knowledge that informs them
• It does not allow for the domination of one over the other
• It values both systems