Traditional knowledge (TK) is the intellectual inventiveness, innovations, and practices of indigenous populations and local communities over generations of living through culturalemanation. The very existence of this knowledge is under the threat of extinction that the western corporate houses...

This paper claims that, though the mass commercialization of traditional knowledge-goods have brought positive changes to the lives of millions of poor female artisans, misappropriation of traditional ingenuity by giant dealers and middlemen have also thwarted huge potentials including...