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IB Theory of Knowledge Topic 1.6 Optional Theme: Knowledge and Indigenous Societies (SL/HL) covers syllabus content. Use these Notes to review the topic, practise exam questions, and move between notes, videos, flashcards, and lessons where available.
1.6.1 What a knowledge system is
1.6.2 Indigenous knowledge systems: scope
1.6.3 Orality and knowledge without writing
1.6.4 Story, song and ceremony as method
1.6.5 Land and place as knowledge
1.6.6 Ecological and practical knowledge
1.6.7 Kinship and who may know
1.6.8 Transmission across generations
1.6.9 The archive and the elder
1.6.10 Studying from outside: whose lens?
1.6.11 Colonisation and knowledge loss
1.6.12 Language loss and knowledge loss
1.6.13 Ownership and intellectual property
1.6.14 Appropriation and consent
1.6.15 Meeting other knowledge systems
1.6.16 Assessment bridge: indigenous societies in the exhibition