Tok Brainstorm

How might the context in which knowledge is presented influence whether it is accepted or rejected

The context plays a major role in if we accept of reject knowledge for example just from who we get the knowledge can have a major role in how likely we are to believe such knowledge

Example: from teacher likely to accept knowledge

Example: from random individual less likely to accept knowledge

Context:the circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood.

What is the relationship between knowledge and culture?

Culture plays a major role in if we can understand such knowledge and what types of knowledge is produced

The tools availble dictate what types of knowledge are producded

Polynesian map (Far diffrent culture and tools accessible to this culture)

European map uses far diffrent techniques to show knowledge since they do not have the navigation skills to understand such a Polynesian map

Mongols

superior knowledge of horse riding compared to average due to their culture

Horses have always played an important role in daily life as well as in the arts. (From wikipedia)

Since they play such a important role in their culture their will also be more knowledge of horses

the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a particular people or society.

the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.

Dutch Windmills

How a need for a certain type of knowledge can encourage the creation of certain type of knowledge. Map of dutch elevation here

Bison hunting

Bisons where on of the major food sources of Indians therefore they had special ways and techniques of hunting bison and such.

Use of habitat regulation

Before the introduction of horses, bison were herded into large chutes made of rocks and willow branches and trapped in a corral called a buffalo pound and then slaughtered or stampeded over cliffs, called buffalo jumps. Both pound and jump archaeological sites are found in several places in the U.S. and Canada. In the case of a jump, large groups of people would herd the bison for several miles, forcing them into a stampede that drove the herd over a cliff. (From wikipedia)