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"Local Knowledge and Its Positive Practice"[International Workshop](2008/02/14-15)
Date:February 14(Thu.)-15(Fri.) ，2008
Venue:Ras Amba Hotel Conference Room
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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] |
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| 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 |