Source: https://inamuse.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/peralatan-sehari-hari-suku-wana-di-cagar-alam-morowali-1/ |
The frefix 'ethno-' is used to denote a field of knowledge defined from the viewpoint of the people being studied (Fowler 1977:216) and is similar in meaning to the term 'folk' (as in 'folk knowledge', 'folk model', 'folk medicine'). Thus, ethnoecology is a branch of 'ethnomedicine', 'ethnobiology' and so on. The use of the frefix 'ethno-' is essentially 'ethnocentric'; it impies that those bodies of knowledge not labelled 'ethno-', usually those generated by academic study in the 'western' tradition, are somehow privileged: 'Scientific knowledge, as we conceive it, has cross-cultural validity; ethnoscience, on the other hand, refers to knowledeg that is indigeneous to a particular language an culture' (Glick 1964:273).