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ancient. It is evolving all the time, a process
of periodic, even daily creation as
individuals and communities take up the
challenges presented by their social and
physical environment. In many ways
therefore, traditional knowledge is actually
contemporary knowledge. Traditional
knowledge is embedded in traditional
knowledge systems, which each community
has developed and maintained in its local
context. ‘Traditional knowledge’ itself has a
number of different subsets, e.g. ‘indigenous
knowledge,’ ‘folklore,’ ‘traditional medicinal
knowledge’.
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