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Value, Access, and Use of Ethnobotanical Databases in Ethnopharmacology: Methods, Ethical Research, and a Case Study on the Aurukun Ethnobiology Database Project
McClure, Katrina
McClure, Katrina
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Traditional knowledge databases are becoming increasingly instrumental to research objectives in ethnopharmacology. Codified medicinal knowledge of Indigenous peoples is part of what constitutes these databases. Indigenous peoples’ medicinal knowledge is systematized in database in order to facilitate analyses by researchers. The value, access, and use of traditional knowledge databases by Indigenous peoples is not well researched. The Aurukun Ethnobiology Database study stands as one example where Aboriginal people have co-developed a database with ethnoscientists using a participatory research process that privileges Indigenous methodologies. The adherence to cultural protocols and control of the database by the community resulted in recommendations from ethnoscience researchers that discourages such projects in the future. Standard methodologies in ethnopharmacology are incongruent with the protection, by Indigenous people, of their knowledge systems. Indigenous geographies’ scholarship is used in this thesis to examine how technoscience, disciplines, researchers, and communities interact and how outcomes can work for and/or against equitable research processes, self-determination, and sovereignties' of Indigenous peoples.
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2015-08-31
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University of Kansas
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Geography, ethnoscience, Indigenous methodology, participatory research, technoscience, traditional ecological knowledge, traditional knowledge