Indigenous Knowledge and Peoples

THE IKAP MARKET

IKAP offers a varitey of products which can be purchased from our website. Below, you will see training materials, arts and handicrafts, publications and maps. Please email secretariat@ikap-mmsea.org to make your request.

Training Materials

Visualisation Baskets - 2500 THB

IKAP offers visualization baskets filled with cards, markers, scissors, masking tapes and pins for trainers and facilitators for sale at 2500 THB each plus costs for remittance by mail or courier. Exact costs on request.

The baskets are made out of bamboo with cotton lining by Lahu artisans. The cards inside comprise oval, rectangular (small and large), round cards (small and large).

The Visualisation Baskets contain plain paper. If you would like to include Saa Pa per (handmade Mulberry paper from Sankampaeng in Chiang Mai, six different colours) instead it will be an extra cost of US$15 per basket.

Arts and Handicrafts

	Size: 5.5"x4" Price: 55 THB Utility: Put mobile phone, glasses, or pen. We usually put name tag of participants in the meeting and give to participants as gift. Materials: Made from cotton by Hmong, Akha, and Lahu embroiders.
	Size: 13"x11.5" Price: 200 THB Utility: Put book, file, or folder. Materials: Karen and Lua's bag weave from natural dying, for Akha, Hmong Lahu's bag made from cotton.
	Size: 5.5"x4" Price: 55 THB Utility: Put mobile phone, glasses, or pen. Materials: Hmong embroider, made from hemp.
	Price: 30 THB Utility: Bunch Materials: Made from small beads and shell.

IKAP Publications

	Bridging Epistimologies - 250 THB This book is primarily a source of individual accounts of ways of knowing that are ingrained in cultural categories and practices. It includes case studies showing environmentally friendly experiences deeply embedded in particular cultural ways of conceiving nature and concludes with an epistemological debate towards an intercultural dialogue among different ways of knowing and acknolwedging diversity.
	The Indigenous Peoples Forum - 200 THB The Indigenous Peoples Forum included indigenous peoples from China, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Burma and Laos. Indigenous participants discussed Rotational Farming, Herbal Medicine and Indigenous Seeds and Plants. This booklet provides insights into perceptions of the indigenous practitioners about the 3 main topics and describes the scope and activities of the interethnic networks across borders.
	Pga k'nyau Knowledge on Rotational Farming
	People and Forests - 150 THB Yunnan is still one of the areas of China where swidden agriculture is preserved by ethnic minorities to a considerable extent. The author, Professor Yin, reports about the historic records about swidden agriculture (cut with knife and plant with fire – the Chinese term). He also describes with many details the swidden systems of the Jingpo (Kachin), Bulang, Wa, Jinuo and Dulong. He ledges for the recognition of swidden agriculture as a cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples of Yunnan, which needs to be preserved.
	The Poverty of Development
	Participatory Technology Development (PTD) - 200 THB The Field Manual on Participatory Technology Development (PTD) -Linking Indigenous Knowledge and Biodiversity for Sustainable Livelihoods focuses on the following areas: 1. What is PTD?, 2. Basic Concepts of PTD, 3. PTD Methods, 4. Process and sequence of PTD, 5. Innovations and experiments, 6. Farmer networks and organization, 7. Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation, 8. Training of PTD, 9. Outlook. There is also an ample bibliography and web-resources on Participation, PTD and Indigenous Knowledge.
	Indigenous People and Climate Change - FREE IWGIA, AIPP and IKAP presented this paper about the impact of climate change on Inidigneous Peoples as well as our conepts on it at the UNFCCC Intersessional Meeting, Bangkok, Oct 2009.
	WHO WE ARE: Indigenous Peoples in Asia - FREE IKAP AND AIPP briefing paper explaining how we use the term Indigenous to help self-define our many distinctive Peoples at the UNFCCC Intersessional Meeting, Bangkok, Oct 2009.

IKAP Maps
Our maps are not yet ready for sale and distribution. However, we provide the interim versions online (below).

We are developing a mapping project (with help of the Highland Mapping Development Project of IMPECT) for a detailed map of ethnic groups in SE-Asia linked to the collection of the ethnic data on Indigenous groups, which is done in the different countries by different groups with different methods and tools. This work on ethnic databanks in each country will be done in a decentralised way, but IKAP will try to bring the different data gathering groups to one table to discuss a common format, compatible software and coordination mechanisms.

Other Texts

Space of Resistance and Place of Local Knowledge in Karen Ecological Movement of Northern Thailand: The Case of Pgaz K’Nyau Villages in Mae Lan Kham River Basin

This paper is based on an insiders’ view of the ecological movement in Northern Thailand as carried out by Sgaw Karen (Pgaz K’Nyau) people whose knowledge was accumulated in the form of cultural capital [see Yos, 2003; 2], including oral traditions such as legends, storytelling, hta (traditional songs or poems), and rituals.

By Prasert Trakarnsuphakorn, Social Science, Chiang Mai University, July 2007

UNESCO: Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems LINKS

The loss of their specialised knowledge of nature is a grave concern for many indigenous communities throughout the world. Education, as it is understood in a Western context, occupies a pivotal role in this process, highlighted by many as both a major cause of the decline of indigenous knowledge, and also as a potential remedy for its demise. Visit the site to learn more about this book and other resource texts.