INDIGENOUS

SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY IN
THE PHILIPPINES
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
●Embedded in the cultural traditions of
regional, indigenous or local
communities.
● Orally passed
● Evident in stories, poems and songs
EXAMPLE OF INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE THAT ARE
TAUGHT AND PRACTICED
BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
 EXAMPLE OF INDIGENOUS
KNOWLEDGE
❶ PREDICTION OF WEATHER

❷USING HERBAL MEDICINE

❸PRESERVING FOODS

❹CLASSIFYING ANIMALS AND PLANTS INTO

FAMILIES

❺SELECTING GOOD SEEDS FOR PLANTING

❻USING INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGY

❼BUILDING LOCAL IRRIGATION

❽CLASSIFYING DIFFERENT TYPES OF SOIL FOR PLANTING

❾PRODUCING WINE FROM TROPICAL FRUITS

❿KEEPING TH CUSTOM OF GROWING PLANTS AND

VEGETABLES
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE PHILIPPINES
There are various indigenous
Filipino ethnic groups and tribes
in the Philippines
Negrito of Luzon

Igorot

Mangyan

Tribes of Palawan

Ati

Tribes of Panay

Lumad

Bajau
LUZON
VISAYAS
MINDANAO
PREDICTION OF WEATHER
• Puwek ni Kiling (storm of the kiling)
• Shining moon with a rainbow encircling or a bloody
red sunset.
PREDICTION OF WEATHER
• Kasili (mythical fish)

• During New Year, when the cow or horse eat grass,

wail, it meant draught.

• When the goats repeatedly wail, there will be

landslide.
MEDICINE
• Herbolarios

• Tuob

• Anino
 NORTH
PRESERVING FOOD
ETAG
 NORTH
AGRICULTURE
BANAUE RICE TERRACES
 SOUTH
AGRICULTURE
• Swidden farming

• Agricultural cycle: pendupi, miyan, pemeres

• The constellation Orion

 SOUTH

TECHNOLOGY
• POTTERY

• WEAVING

• FINER
METALCRAFT
TECHONOLOGY
• SUMBIRING

• BIDYO
PRODUCING WINES
TAPEY LAMBANOG
HOUSES
HUT SUBANON
 INDIGENOUS
PEOPLE’S RIGHT ACTS
OF 1997 (IPRA) (RA
8371)
INDIGENOUS SCIENCE
• Part of the indigenous knowledge system practiced by
different groups of people and early civilizations.

• It includes complex array of knowledge, expertise,

practices and representation that guide human societies
in their enumerable interactions with the natural
milieu; agriculture, medicine, naming and explaining
natural phenomena and strategies for coping with
changing environment (Pawice, 2005)
 INDIGENOUS BELIEFS
ACCORDING TO JOHNSTON (2000) INDIGENOUS BELIEFS
ALSO DEVELOP DESIRABLEVALUES NAMELY;

❶ MOTIVATING ATTITUDES

❷ COOPERATING ATTITUDES

❸ PRACTICAL ATTITUDES

❹ REFLECTIVE ATTITUDES
 INDIGENOUS SCIENCE

uses guided by composed of

SCIENCE PROCESS COMMUNITY CULTURE TRADITIONAL
SKILLS AND VALUES KNOWLEDGE

• Observing • The land is the source of life.

• Comparing • The Earth is revered as “Mother Earth”.
Traditional
• Classifying • All living things and non living things are knowledge
• Measuring interconnected and interdependent to each
other. practiced and
• Problem solving
• Inferring
• Human being is the steward and trustee of valued by people
land and other natural resources.
• Communicating • Nature is a friend to human beings. and communities.
• Predicting
Indigenous science is important in
development of science and technology in
the Philippines.

Indigenous science helped the people

understanding the natural environment
and in coping with everyday life.
THANK YOU!