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A traditional Andean farmer, Potato Park, Pisaq, Peru.
each community comprise the Board of
Directors. Various economic collectives,
based on the conservation and sustainable
use of biocultural heritage, contribute to
the livelihoods and development of the
park.
Methodology
ANDES understands that knowledge
comes from a variety of ways of knowing,
and that any single perspective or approach
is laden with assumptions, blindnesses and
limitations. This action-research project
began with a methodological orientation
that combined the complimentary
Box 1: Methodological approaches
Participatory methodologies: involve relevant
stakeholders in the decision-making processes and
actions/activities that affect their lives.
Emancipatory/decolonisation methodologies:
these begin with critiques of colonial relations in past
research involving indigenous peoples, and highlight
some methodological considerations for carrying out
such research. The aim is to ‘ensure that research
with indigenous peoples can be more respectful,
ethical, sympathetic and useful’. It is based on
developing relationships and following community
protocols, and explicitly addresses issues of power
and rights.
Indigenous methodologies: rooted in indigenous
cosmovisions, conceptual frameworks and ways of
life.
Source: Smith (1999).