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Traditional knowledge and environmental conservation among indigenous people in Ranau, Sabah


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Ab. Halim, Adlina and Jawan, Jayum and Ismail, Sri Rahayu and Othman, Normala and Masnin, Mohd Hadzrul (2013) Traditional knowledge and environmental conservation among indigenous people in Ranau, Sabah. Global Journal of Human Social Science, 13 (3-B). pp. 5-12. ISSN 0975-587X; ESSN: 2249-460X

Abstract

Traditional knowledge is a form of continuation of the inherited knowledge of a race from its forefathers. This traditional knowledge represents a holistic understanding of an indigenous society towards its day-to-day practices and environment, based on their life experiences, interacting with nature over a span of countless centuries. The bulk of this traditional knowle-dge has been adapted by means of traditional songs, stories, legends, dreams, and also other methods and living practices of the indigenous societies. At times, it is translated in the form of customs that are inherited from father to son or from mother to daughter. This knowledge is disseminated first-hand from one individual to another. Indigenous societies are citizens in free countries who are considered as natives, who have their ancestry from inhabitants who had been residing in a certain country or geographical region of an indepen-dent country, at the time of colonial conquest.


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Item Type: Article
Divisions: Faculty of Human Ecology
Publisher: Global Journals Inc.
Keywords: Traditional knowledge; Environment; Conservation; Indigenous; Sabah
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 04 Jul 2015 08:14
Last Modified: 21 Sep 2015 03:34
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28178
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