Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge

Autor/inn/en	Reyes-García, Victoria; Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel; Duda, Romain; Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro; Gallois, Sandrine; Guèze, Maximilien; Napitupulu, Lucentezza; Pyhälä, Aili
Titel	Peer Evaluation Can Reliably Measure Local Knowledge
Quelle	In: Field Methods, 28 (2016) 4, S.345-362 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1525-822X
DOI	10.1177/1525822X16629912
Schlagwörter	Peer Evaluation; Reliability; Measurement; Indigenous Knowledge; Ecology; Questionnaires; Identification; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Ethnography; Indigenous Populations; Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; Correlation; Skills; Cameroon; Indonesia; Bolivia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reliabilität; Messverfahren; Ökologie; Fragebogen; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Ethnografie; Sinti und Roma; Ethnie; Ausland; Korrelation; Skill; Fertigkeit; Kamerun; Indonesien; Bolivien
Abstract	We assess the consistency of measures of individual local ecological knowledge obtained through peer evaluation against three standard measures: identification tasks, structured questionnaires, and self-reported skills questionnaires. We collected ethnographic information among the Baka (Congo), the Punan (Borneo), and the Tsimane' (Amazon) to design site-specific but comparable tasks to measure medicinal plant and hunting knowledge. Scores derived from peer ratings correlate with scores of identification tasks and self-reported skills questionnaires. The higher the number of people rating a subject, the larger the association. Associations were larger for the full sample than for subsamples with high and low rating scores. Peer evaluation can provide a more affordable method in terms of difficulty, time, and budget to study intracultural variation of knowledge, provided that researchers (1) do not aim to describe local knowledge; (2) select culturally recognized domains of knowledge; and (3) use a large and diverse (age, sex, and kinship) group of evaluators. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01