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dc.contributor.authorJaved Ali-
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-09T04:39:25Z-
dc.date.available2023-05-09T04:39:25Z-
dc.date.issued2022-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/25419-
dc.description.abstractThe philosophy of Indigenous Knowledge System is contested in the scholastic regimes and amongst the development practitioners. Yet its significance cannot be negated while studying the discourse of indigenous communities and investigating the local wisdom for appropriating contexts for development and growth. The western science has dominated almost the total of other knowledge system prevailing across the world, especially in the developing world where the indigenous knowledge has pledged primordial fidelities for the communities living in remote and rural regions. And in the wake of growing attention towards climate change and building resilient communities, disaster management practices have been disputed for their imposed universality and uniformed contextualization. Hence this study delves the local wisdom or the traditions from indigenous knowledge system in the district Upper Chitral of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan to manage the risks of natural disasters like floods and earthquakes. To investigate the local wisdom for natural disasters risk management in the research arena, the study has employed qualitative research methods with an ethnographic approach. This study entails two types of data findings which the secondary and primary data findings; the source of secondary data findings is limited to the literary discoveries and reinforcements by means of analyzing selective discourse, while for the primary data findings this study has observed in-depth interviews of key informants and locals, participant observation, on field scrutiny and field notes. The majority of key informants were in their late adulthood and adults, whereas the diversified sample size was considered to check up on the transmission of traditional knowledge and its relevance in the contemporary times. The modern scientific knowledge system, particularly the western science has dominated the knowledge spheres across the world, irrespective of their age in practice and the context they prevail in. The western scientific dominancy and universality has alienated knowledge system such as the traditional and indigenous knowledge system. A traditional viii knowledge practitioner in any part of the world has to prove the significance, relevance and utility of their traditional wisdom by legitimizing it with the principles and tenets of western science. Especially when traditional ecological knowledge and the local wisdom for harmonious traditions with the nature are talked about, the universality of western science negates these native philosophies of unity with the nature. Yet no too late, in the recent past a contagious attention amongst various modern scientific regimes is given to indigenous knowledge as native science, and modern scientist work in the pursuit to incorporate these traditional and indigenous knowledge with those of modern science to achieve maximal efficacy in their courses of interventions. The natives of the arena have rich traditions of unity and harmony with the discursive world around them. Since the region is settled amidst gigantic mountain ranges, they always been looked at as communities living at multifaceted risks. The tension of climate change and global warming has put the glaciers and weather conditions at unrest, increasing the probabilities of occurrences of floods in the region. And earthquakes in the region have continuously been nightmare for the inhabitants of mountains, living in steeps and among rocks. Despite the continuum of these menacing disasters the community has managed to survive amidst the dilemmas and chaos; their traditional knowledge system has equipped them with knowledge trajectories to cope with the risks posed by these natural disasters. Practices like Bup Dik, Tzaq, Yoz Chakek, Yardoyi and erecting the mud adobes as shelters have managed to provide them ways to get an escape from their vulnerabilities caused by the geographical compulsions. Together the beliefs associated with these practices and their traditions guiding them in emergencies have crafted a system of traditions which keep their social and natural world in harmony. Key Words: Indigenous Knowledge System, Local Wisdom, Traditional beliefs and practices, traditions of harmony, Khow, Upper Chitralen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherQuaid I Azam Universityen_US
dc.subjectAnthropologyen_US
dc.titleLocal wisdom For Natural Disasters Risk Management: Ethnography of the District Upper Chitral, KPK Pakistanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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