scholarly journals The Many Ways to Count the World: Counting Terms in Indigenous Languages and Cultures of Rondônia, Brazil

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Da Silva Sinha ◽  
Wany Sampaio ◽  
Christopher Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
General Feature ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
Number Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many ◽  
High Degree ◽  
Culture And Language

Linguistic theory has been preoccupied since midway through the twentieth century with the search for universals of language. However, more recently there has been increasing attention across the different disciplines that contribute to research in language to variation and difference. This goes together with a more recent focus on culture and language, approached through interdisciplinary research methods, including field research. In this article the authors report the results of a survey they conducted with the assistance of indigenous teachers about the counting term (number) systems of their native Amazonian languages. All the teachers were indigenous people from different communities living in the State of Rondônia, Brazil. This survey of twenty-three languages, belonging to seven different language families, confirms the observation that small counting term systems are a general feature of indigenous Amazonian languages. This article identifies two general features of counting term systems in the languages of Rondônia: a restricted number (less than five) of lexicalisations of number, and the productive combinatorial use of these terms to refer to larger quantities. It suggests that this is evidence of a way of thinking about and practicing counting that is shared across a cultural area. However, this generalization goes together with a high degree of of diversity in the specific patterns of lexicalisation and combination. 

Love’s Blindness (1): Love’s Closed Heart

Love's Vision ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Troy Jollimore
Keyword(s):  
Close Attention ◽  
The World ◽  
Single Voice ◽  
The Many ◽  
High Degree

This chapter develops an account of the lover's psychology that is based on the central insight that loving a person is a way of seeing him and, at the same time, a way of seeing the world that puts the beloved at its center. This picture emphasizes what is referred to as the blindness of love. The statement that love is blind has become a cliché. But this cliché contains a high degree of philosophical insight. Love is largely a matter of paying close attention to a person, and paying attention to one element of the world always involves a comparative lack of attention with respect to other elements; focusing on one object means that other objects are not in focus. Just as a person at a loud party must make himself deaf to the many conversations that are going on in order to hear a single voice, a lover, in focusing his attention on his beloved, must turn away from a great deal else that is going on in the world.

scholarly journals Bridges to bilingualism: Teachers

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeline Milian ◽  
Dana Walker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Bilingual Teachers ◽  
Language Loss ◽  
Educational Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
Culture And Language

The Peace Accords of 1996 aimed to bring significant changes for Indigenous people of Guatemala by promoting new educational opportunities centering on the recognition that culture and language are critical components of education. Bilingual intercultural programs have been created and attention to the detrimental effects of language loss and cultural identity have gained attention as Guatemala portrays itself to the rest of the world as a proud multiethnic and multilingual nation. As teachers are essential in the implementation of educational programs, this study explores the perspectives of 13 Indigenous bilingual teachers from multiple communities and their role in implementing programs that promote bilingualism, biliteracy, and intercultural education in their respective communities. Teachers proudly accepted the responsibility of bridging school and home languages and recognized that educational progress had taken place, but expressed the need for continued improvements, as there are still many unmet goals both at the national and individual community levels.

scholarly journals Un tecnólogo en medio de sus raíces

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillermo Alfredo Vásquez Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
The World

"Throughout the years we have adopted a crazy race to achieve the latest technological advances. For the sake of our curiosity or the convenience of doing more with less, we have adopted customs and lifestyles from other countries using our smartphone. We have not considered that in our own environment and in the lifestyle of indigenous people there are ways that would overflow with Gigabytes this highway of information called Internet. Through a recent field research experience, indigenous communities and technology converge to show the world the importance and wonders of rediscovering our roots, our identity. We prove that creativity and knowledge can contribute to keep our traditions alive and also become enjoyable. "

L’Enseignement de la langue wapichana et les dialogues autour de la Covid-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 129-134
Author(s):  
Ananda MACHADO
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
The State ◽  
Indigenous Languages ◽  
The World

In order to alert speakers of indigenous languages to what is happening in the world in the context of Covid 19 and to make them understand it, but also to make a large number of people listen to the indigenous languages of Roraima, we worked to produce a series of videos. These were aimed at informing the indigenous people of the state of Roraima about the symptoms and ways to prevent the contagion of Covid 19. The material was recorded in the following languages: Macuxi, Taurepang, Pemom, Wapichana, Wai wai, Yanomami and Ye'kwana.

Indigenous Peoples and Cultural Survival

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla A. Day
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Living Well ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many

Indigenous people across the globe are struggling for the cultural survival of their families and communities. This article provides an overview of indigenous people across the world and some of the many challenges they face to keep their cultures alive and strong. Indigenous peoples live throughout the world and share many common characteristics, which are described in detail in the article. Historical and contemporary challenges affecting cultural survival are provided, including accounts of the history of colonization and some of its lasting impacts on indigenous people and their cultures. Bolivia is highlighted as a country that has embraced the “living well” concept. The article closes by encouraging people to learn about and become allies with indigenous people because, ultimately, we are all impacted by the same threats.

scholarly journals A transdisciplinary approach to understanding the causes of wicked problems such as the violent conflict in Rwanda

2012 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Velthuizen
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Violent Conflict ◽  
Linear Processes ◽  
Transdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The World ◽  
Levels Of Reality ◽  
African Context ◽  
The Many

The paper is presented against a background of many wicked problems that confront us in the world today such as violent crime, conflict that emanates from political power seeking, contests for scarce resources, the increasing reaction all over the world to the deterioration of socio-economic conditions and the devastation caused by natural disasters. This article will argue that the challenge of violent conflict requires an innovative approach to research and problem solving and proposes a research methodology that follows a transdisciplinary approach. The argument is informed by field research during 2006 on the management of knowledge in the Great Lakes region of Africa, including research on how knowledge on the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is managed. The paper will make recommendations on how transdisciplinary research is required to determine the causes of violent conflict in an African context and how practitioners and academics should engage in transdisciplinarity. It was found that trans- disciplinary research is required to gain better insight into the causes of violent conflict in an African context. It requires from the researcher to recognise the many levels of reality that has to be integrated towards a synthesis to reveal new insights into the causes of violent conflict, including recognising the existence of a normative-spiritual realm that informs the epistemology of Africa. It furthermore requires a methodology that allows us to break out of the stifling constraints of systems thinking and linear processes into the inner space at the juncture where disciplines meet (the diversity of African communities).Keywords: Africa, conflict, Rwanda, crime, genocide, violence, transdisciplinaryDisciplines: politics, education, law, epistemology, sociology, theology, management science

Understanding Suicide Terrorism

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (04) ◽  
pp. 245-250
Author(s):  
A. Speckhard
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Suicide Terrorism ◽  
Terrorist Organizations ◽  
Global Migration ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Single Region ◽  
Extensive Field ◽  
The World ◽  
Terrorist Groups

SummaryAs a terror tactic, suicide terrorism is one of the most lethal as it relies on a human being to deliver and detonate the device. Suicide terrorism is not confined to a single region or religion. On the contrary, it has a global appeal, and in countries such as Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan it has come to represent an almost daily reality as it has become the weapon of choice for some of the most dreaded terrorist organizations in the world, such as ISIS and al-Qaeda. Drawing on over two decades of extensive field research in five distinct world regions, specifically the Middle East, Western Europe, North America, Russia, and the Balkans, the author discusses the origins of modern day suicide terrorism, motivational factors behind suicide terrorism, its global migration, and its appeal to modern-day terrorist groups to embrace it as a tactic.

“All in a Garden Green”: Shakespeare's Staging of Garden Imagery

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Deborah Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Audience Interaction ◽  
The Many ◽  
Green World

This essay draws attention to the surprising lack of scholarship on the staging of garden scenes in Shakespeare's oeuvre. In particular, it explores how garden scenes promote collaborative acts of audience agency and present new renditions of the familiar early modern contrast between the public and the private. Too often the mention of Shakespeare's gardens calls to mind literal rather than literary interpretations: the work of garden enthusiasts like Henry Ellacombe, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, and Caroline Spurgeon, who present their copious gatherings of plant and flower references as proof that Shakespeare was a garden lover, or the many “Shakespeare Gardens” around the world, bringing to life such lists of plant references. This essay instead seeks to locate Shakespeare's garden imagery within a literary tradition more complex than these literalizations of Shakespeare's “flowers” would suggest. To stage a garden during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries signified much more than a personal affinity for the green world; it served as a way of engaging time-honored literary comparisons between poetic forms, methods of audience interaction, and types of media. Through its metaphoric evocation of the commonplace tradition, in which flowers double as textual cuttings to be picked, revised, judged, and displayed, the staged garden offered a way to dramatize the tensions produced by creative practices involving collaborative composition and audience agency.

A Māori Girl Watches, Listens, and Learns – Coming of Age from an Indigenous Viewpoint: Mauri (Merata Mita, 1988)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Fox
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
The World ◽  
Life Force ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines Merata Mita’s Mauri, the first fiction feature film in the world to be solely written and directed by an indigenous woman, as an example of “Fourth Cinema” – that is, a form of filmmaking that aims to create, produce, and transmit the stories of indigenous people, and in their own image – showing how Mita presents the coming-of-age story of a Māori girl who grows into an understanding of the spiritual dimension of the relationship of her people to the natural world, and to the ancestors who have preceded them. The discussion demonstrates how the film adopts storytelling procedures that reflect a distinctively Māori view of time and are designed to signify the presence of the mauri (or life force) in the Māori world.

9/11 and Armageddon: the Christian Right and George W. Bush

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Göran Gunner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Christian Right ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Leader ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Mega Church ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Jerry Falwell ◽  
High Degree

Authors from the Christian Right in the USA situate the September 11 attack on New York and Washington within God's intentions to bring America into the divine schedule for the end of the world. This is true of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, and other leading figures in the ‘Christian Coalition’. This article analyses how Christian fundamentalists assess the roles of the USA, the State of Israel, Islam, Iraq, the European Union and Russia within what they perceive to be the divine plan for the future of the world, especially against the background of ‘9/11’. It argues that the ideas of the Christian Right and of President George W. Bush coalesce to a high degree. Whereas before 9/11 many American mega-church preachers had aspirations to direct political life, after the events of that day the President assumes some of the roles of a mega-religious leader.

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