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Reports
Climate Change and Biocultural Adaptation in Mountain Communities

2016

Author(s): Swiderska K, Malmer P

This report provides a record of recent climatic changes experienced by 21 indigenous mountain communities in 10 countries, and of the solutions they have developed based on traditional knowledge and experimentation.

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Opinions/Videos
What Aboriginal Knowledge can Teach us About Happiness

2016

Author(s): Cairney S

In this video the speaker Ms Sheree who has spent her adult life working in remote Australia, deep in sacred Aboriginal country, where the sky is blue and the earth burnt-orange. She has a deep respect for the Aboriginal communities who live within that landscape, and her current research hopes to answer some profoundly human questions – How do we define success? What makes us happy? And what can we learn from our ancient brothers and sisters.

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Amongst the Dimasa tribe in Assam, their popular alcoholic beverage is a traditional rice wine named Judima. This paper is a case study of Judima as a potential GI and includes step by step procedure for GI registration, the hurdles which might pose in the process and how it could be overcome.

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Research Papers/Articles
Effect of Climate Change in Meghalaya as Perceived by the Scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Meghalaya, India

2016

Author(s): Maisnam G, Nongtdu D, Rangad L

This study was conducted to assess the adverse effect of climate change as perceived by the scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Meghalaya.

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Integrating ideas from the fields of systems science and knowledge science, the book shows how to create and justify various pieces of knowledge systemically. Written by one of the foremost experts in this area, the book presents approaches for the systemic integration of knowledge, which can help solve complex problems today and in the future.

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Research Papers/Articles
Anticaries Potential of Ethnomedicinal Plants Used by Malayali Tribals from Kolli Hills, India

2016

Author(s): Sekar K , Murugan K , Pandikumar P

The present study documents the dental caries preventing medicinal plants used by them and attempts to validate their claim.

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Books
Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies

2016

Author(s): Andersen C, O'Brien J M

The book is a synthesis of changes and innovations in methodologies in Indigenous Studies, focusing on sources over a broad chronological and geographical range. It offers insight into the methodological approaches contributors take to research, and how these methods have developed in recent years.

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This guide provides a framework that is intended to stimulate discussion of these issues among policy- makers within a country. It presumes that the aim of inclusive education is to eliminate social exclusion that is a consequence of attitudes and responses to diversity in race, social class, ethnicity, religion, gender and ability

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Research Papers/Articles
Comparative Study on Chemical Profiling and Antimicrobial Properties of Essential Oils from Different Parts of Eucalyptus lanceolatus

2016

Author(s): Bhagat M, Gupta S, Jamwal VS, Sharma S, Kattal M, Dawa S, Devi R, Bindu K

In this study, essential oils from stem, leaf and bud of Eucalyptus lanceolatus were analysed and chemical profiling was done by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS).

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Opinions/Videos
Indigenous Knowledge to Close Gaps in Indigenous Health

2016

Author(s): DeCoteau MA

In this video Dr. Anderson DeCoteau a Cree-Saulteaux physician speaks about mainstream systems approaches to Indigenous health in Indigenous rights, and Indigenous understandings and teachings around health, being healthy, and healing.