South African roots towards global knowledge: music or molecules?

Laplante, Julie

doi:10.1080/23323256.2009.11499974

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“…In this quote we find a limitation to understanding scientific knowledge as 'objective' rather than as both subjective and objective and in this way similar to 'traditional knowledge'. This limitation has been addressed thoroughly by various anthropologists such as Bruno Latour and by the field of medical anthropology in order to understand the cultural embeddedness of biomedicine and its associated processes, including the demonstration of efficacy through randomized clinical trials [[ 22 - 24 ], and [ 15 ]]. In this view, both science and local knowledge need to be understood through the same ethnographic eye [ 25 ]: both in a subject-object relation, neither objective nor completely subjective, yet a mixture of both.…”

Section: Indian Ngos and Tmmentioning

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“…It is important here to mention that both the Federal Drug Association (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have recently accredited value to medicinal plants for their historical use. Ironically, it can only provide them with value if these are documented [ 15 ]. This explains how such initiatives like the FRLHT initiative can actually enhance 'traditional' knowledge, at least in this new form.…”

Section: Indian Ngos and Tmmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As we will see, this form of innovation centred on TM involves several actors. These health traditions are dynamic, innovative and evolving, and consist of various health practices based on local epistemologies and empirical experience [ 15 ]. Since our analysis will mainly focus on ethnomedicine capacity creation and dissemination at different levels and among various stakeholders, we have decided to adopt a double approach to analyze capacity development : we will use an organizational approach and a participatory process approach at the community level .…”

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Enhancing innovation between scientific and indigenous knowledge: pioneer NGOs in India

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2009

J Ethnobiology Ethnomedicine

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Background: Until recently, little attention has been paid to local innovation capacity as well as management practices and institutions developed by communities and other local actors based on their traditional knowledge. This paper doesn't focus on the results of scientific research into innovation systems, but rather on how local communities, in a network of supportive partnerships, draw knowledge for others, combine it with their own knowledge and then innovate in their local practices. Innovation, as discussed in this article, is the capacity of local stakeholders to play an active role in innovative knowledge creation in order to enhance local health practices and further environmental conservation. In this article, the innovative processes through which this capacity is created and reinforced will be defined as a process of "ethnomedicine capacity".

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Section: Indian Ngos and Tmmentioning

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2009

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“… For a more detailed description of RCTs, consult Sebastien Dalgalarrondo (), and for more information regarding the implications of testing indigenous medicinal plants, consult Adams et al. () and Laplante (). In regards to the history of RCTS, also see Ted Kaptchuk () and Mark Sullivan (). …”

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On Knowing and Not Knowing “Life” in Molecular Biology and Xhosa Healing: Ontologies in the Preclinical Trial of a South African Indigenous Medicine (Muthi)

Laplante

2014

Anthropol of Consciousness

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Seemingly distant practices of molecular biology and indigenous Xhosa healing have commonalities that I would like to bring into conversation in this article. The preclinical trial of an indigenous medicine brings them together in a research consortium. In this instance, both sets of experts are meant to collaborate in preparing a wild bush for it to pass the tests of the randomized clinical trial (RCT) and to potentially become a biopharmaceutical to counter the tuberculosis pandemic. I aim to tease out how the two sets of actors and their respective practices converge and diverge in their healing hopes and ways of managing uncertainty. Ultimately, I am interested in understanding how the preferred process of making medicine “work” by each set of actors relies upon particular ways of knowing and not knowing life, bringing some ontologies into being, letting others wither away. The shared ways of knowing life as a movement of opening at the edges of the RCT are proposed as paths of recognition between one and the other practice.

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Technological advancement and modes of existence in medicinal plant research

Cohen

2018

Anthropology Southern Africa

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South African roots towards global knowledge: music or molecules?

Cited by 7 publications

References 26 publications

Enhancing innovation between scientific and indigenous knowledge: pioneer NGOs in India

Enhancing innovation between scientific and indigenous knowledge: pioneer NGOs in India

On Knowing and Not Knowing “Life” in Molecular Biology and Xhosa Healing: Ontologies in the Preclinical Trial of a South African Indigenous Medicine (Muthi)

Technological advancement and modes of existence in medicinal plant research

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