Knowledge Management in Creating Cultural Space for Migrated "Lisu people", Ban Wang Mai Sub-district, Rong Kho District, Lampang

Abstract

This paper aims to study the cultural existence of Lisu people affected by the migration and to create cultural knowledge management for the Lisu people. This study was performed through qualitative data collection by reviewing a collection of literature, observations, interviews, and focus-group discussions. A problem tree method, log frame, outcome mapping, double-edged relationships, and indicators for knowledge management were employed for data collection and analysis. It revealed that the Lisu people possessed their cultural memory and passed down such memory from past generations to present ones, i.e., "language/literature,” “folk wisdom/cuisine/dress code,” and “ways of life/ritual”; moreover, the individual, the folk sage, possessed most of the inherited knowledge of the people; however, no systematic ways to document such knowledge had been performed. As such, data on cultures—language, literature, custom, ritual, cuisine, ways of life, and community folk sage/wise master—has been gathered and collected, then categorized and integrated through the creation of community maps, a 12-month calendar, education for developing cultural curriculum, and learning resource development planning. By categorizing and managing Lisu's cultural knowledge, this resulted in favorable recognition and appreciation of its value, meaning, and importance from the Lisu people and people from the outside.