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"Local Knowledge and Its Positive Practice"(Initiative 4 Seminar)

 

Date： February 14(Thu.)-15(Fri.) ，2008
Venue： Ras Amba Hotel Conference Room

 

 

 
 

 

1st Day (14th, Feb.)
Opening Session
10:30-10:50 Gebre Yntiso Opening Speech
10:50-11:20 Masayoshi Shigeta
Introductory Remarks: “Formation of African Local Knowledge and
Positive Practice: An Area Studies Approach”
11:20-11:50 Yoko Hayami
“Seeds and Taboos: Cultural Reproduction and Domestic
Networks among Karen in Bago Mountains, Burma”
12:00-13:15 Lunch Break at Ras Amba Hotel
   
Session 1: Craft Works and Livelihood [COORDINATOR: Morie Kaneko]
13:15-13:45 Getaneh Mehari
“Weaving, Migration and Livelihood Patterns among the Dorze”
13:45-14:15 Morie Kaneko
“Pottery Making as Local Knowledge: The Case of Open Firing
Practice among the Ari Potters in Southwestern Ethiopia”
14:15-14:30 Commentator: Mamo Hebo
14:30-14:45 Break
   
Session2: Diversity and Plant Utilization in African Homegardens
[COORDINATOR: Yasuaki Sato]
14:45-15:15 Tesfaye Abebe
“Plant Species and Use Diversity of Enset-Coffee
Homegardens in Southern Ethiopia”
15:15-15:45 Deborah Karamura
“Analysis of Banana Based Homegardens Management Practices:
A Farmer's Perspective towards Maintaining Diversity on Farm”
15:45-16:15 Yasuaki Sato
“The Multi-valued Setting of Banana-based Homegardens
among the Baganda, Central Uganda”
16:15-16:45 Satoshi Maruo
“The Developent Process of Banana-based Homegarden:
A Case Study of the Haya, Northwestern Tanzania”
16:45-17:00 Commentator: Zemede Asfaw
18:00-20:00 Reception at Ras Amba Hotel
   
2nd Day (15th, Feb.)
Session 3: “Traditional” Healing Practices
[COORDINATOR: Mamo Hebo]
10:00-10:30 Mamo Hebo
“Healing Through the Mediation of the Spirits: The Case of Jaarii
among the Arsii Oromo of Kokossa District”
10:30-11:00 Setarge Kenaw
“Knowledge Production in Zar:
A Study in the Dynamism of Healing Practices”
11:00-11:15 Commentator: Asseffa Torella
11:15-12:30 Lunch Break at Ras Amba Hotel
Session 4: Forest Coffee Production and Environmental Management
[COORDINATOR: Yoshimasa Ito]
12:30-13:00 Endashaw Bekele
“Origin of Coffea arabica and the Significance of
Its Conservation on Human Culture.”
13:00-13:30 Yoshimasa Ito
“Human Influence on the Forest of Coffee”
13:30-14:00 Getachew Berhan
“Importance of Wild Coffee in Forest Genetic
Resources Conservation in Ethiopia”
14:00-14:15 Break
Session 5: Development, Resource, and Indigenous Social Organizations
[COORDINATOR: Makoto Nishi]
14:15-14:45 Getachew Godana
“The Potentials of Indigenous Knowledge for
the Conservation of Natural Resources:
The Case of Nach Sar National Park (NNP)”
14:45-15:15 Makoto Nishi
“Community-based Rural Development and the Politics of Redistribution:
The Experience of the Gurage People’s Self-help Development Organization”
15:15-15:30 Commentator: Endashaw Bekele
15:30-15:45 Takeshi Matsui “Closing Remarks”
15:45-15:55 Bekele Gutema “Closing Remarks”
18:00-20:00 Reception at Top View
   

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