Abstract Based on four case studies from India and South America, this Special Issue aims to analyse ‘Indigenous’ knowledge practices and ontologies that challenge prevailing epistemological orders and paradigms. The projects and initiatives discussed are mostly considered as alternative to the ‘Western’ knowledge system, but, at the same time, they refer to it and even appropriate particular strategies that have become typical of institutionalised knowledge production and transmission. The introduction to this Special Issue proposes an anthropological perspective on this matter. It discusses relevant approaches of anthropology that deal in manifold ways with the concept of ‘Indigenous’ or ‘alternative’ knowledge (e.g. Ward Goodenough, Harold Conklin, Evans-Pritchard, and Franz Boas). I contextualise the discourse on Indigenous knowledge in space and time, and also address the assumed dichotomy between ‘Indigenous’ and ‘Western’ knowledge systems. ‘Alternative’ or ‘Indigenous’ knowledge is not fixed, but ...

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知识的替代模型作为对认知权力结构的批判——介绍

摘要 基于来自印度和南美洲的四个案例研究，本特刊旨在分析挑战流行的认识论秩序和范式的“本土”知识实践和本体论。所讨论的项目和倡议大多被认为是“西方”知识体系的替代品，但同时，他们也提到了它，甚至是已经成为制度化知识生产和传播典型的适当的特定策略。本期特刊的引言提出了对这个问题的人类学观点。它讨论了人类学的相关方法，这些方法以多种方式处理“土著”或“替代”知识的概念（例如沃德·古迪纳夫、哈罗德·康克林、埃文斯-普里查德和弗朗茨·博阿斯）。我在空间和时间上将关于土著知识的话语置于语境中，并解决了“土著”和“西方”知识系统之间假定的二分法。“替代”或“土著”知识不是固定的，而是......