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Indigenous
Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session, 2008 Annual Meeting,
Association of American Geographers
Boston, Massachusettes, April 15-19 2008
| Title: |
Informing GIScience with Indigenous Knowledge |
| Description: |
Traditionally, knowledge about living with nature is acquired by indigenous peoples through experience, observation, trial and error. Close connection with the land is essential for survival and spiritual wellbeing; thus this knowledge has significant geographic aspects. There is much to learn from these indigenous knowledge bases that can inform GIScience at its most fundamental levels. |
| Anticipated Attendance: |
30 |
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| Participants: |
| Presenter: |
Renee Pualani Louis, Hawaiian Spatial Knowledge Systems and GIScience: Constructing a Shared Knowledge Space |
| Presenter: |
David Stea, Further Steps Toward a Theoretical Basis for Ethnophysiography |
| Presenter: |
David M. Mark, Defining Indigenous Landscape Categories Using General Principles from an Ontology |
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Christopher Wellen, Informing the Semantic Geospatial Web with Indigenous Peoples and Knowledge |
| Presenter: |
Karen Kemp, Ha'ahonua: Integrating Hawaiian and Western Science Through GIS |
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| Sponsorships: |
Geographic Information Science and Systems Specialty Group
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
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