Rural women's role in promoting of indigenous knowledge

Experience shows that indigenous knowledge not only has no contradiction with formal knowledge but different indigenous knowledge features, put it as well complementary for formal knowledge. Indigenous knowledge is accessible, useful and cheap. Its perspective is holistic and its transmission is verbal. Knowledge is dynamic and time-tested, and while it has grown within local natural and social environment, so it is very sustainable with indigenous condition. Indigenous knowledge refers to both component and whole part of culture of each nation and this component and whole integration is so that stop to change traditional society of life without indigenous knowledge out of its cultural origin and therefore would lose it concept and effectiveness. [Fatemeh Bakhtiar, Maryam Abedi and Mohaddaseh Nazarpour. Rural women's role in promoting of indigenous knowledge. Life Science Journal. 2011; 8(3): 30-35] (ISSN:1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com.