Optional theme
Knowledge and indigenous societies
How knowledge is held, transmitted and validated in indigenous societies, including knowledge embedded in place, practice and oral transmission, and the questions raised by its documentation by outsiders.
Situations for knowledge and indigenous societies
All 19 situationsReal cases with an affinity for this theme, for a teacher planning by theme.
- Recognised as indigenous, at lastEast Asia
- The divers evolution equippedSoutheast Asia
- What the Chipko villagers knewIndia
- The painting that hides what it showsOceania
- Historians without paperAfrica
- Sailing to Tahiti without instrumentsOceania
- The appetite plant and the patentAfrica
- Two forecasts of the same monsoonIndia
A school selects two of the five optional themes alongside the core theme. All six themes.