The document discusses discovering, honoring, and documenting local knowledge in the Philippines. It outlines phases of cultural domination by the West and defines local knowledge as the total perceptions, beliefs, understandings, and skills of a community that are gender-based, age-graded, and embedded in local practices and relationships. The author shares their experience researching the knowledge of Aytas in Pampanga and emphasizes the importance of participatory and respectful methods like ethnography.