The Ecology of the Spoken Word

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Uzendoski ◽  
Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Interpretive Argument ◽  
Aesthetic Expression

This book offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English. It presents and analyzes lowland Quichua speakers in the Napo province of Ecuador through narratives, songs, curing chants, and other oral performances, so readers may come to understand and appreciate Quichua aesthetic expression. Like many other indigenous peoples, the Napo Runa create meaning through language and other practices that do not correspond to the communicative or social assumptions of Western culture. Language itself is only a part of a communicative world that includes plants, animals, and the landscape. In the Napo Runa worldview, storytellers are shamans who use sound and form to create relationships with other people and beings from the natural and spirit worlds. Guiding readers into Quichua ways of thinking and being—in which language itself is only a part of a communicative world that includes plants, animals, and the landscape—the book weaves exacting translations into an interpretive argument with theoretical implications for understanding oral traditions, literacy, new technologies, and language.

Indigenous Peoples and the Cultural Constructions of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Latin America

2008 ◽  
pp. 1966-1975 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Francisco Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Indigenous Media ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Information And Communication

Indigenous media have become an intensely debated subject in discussions of cultural diversity and access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). In many circles, the question of the equitable and affordable access to communication and information has begun to be conceptualized as integral to human rights and as an essential element in the foundation of a knowledge and/or information society. The purpose of the chapter is to analyse current approaches to indigenous ICT practices in Latin America by examining several case studies that explore, enliven and criticize the often ethnocentric discussions of the digital divide. The analysis is placed in the context of the rise of coordinated indigenous movements in Latin America, the wave of media privatisation in the region and the impact of IT policy and reform. It argues that, beyond consideration of the social impact of ICT on indigenous cultures, it is also relevant to consider the cultural construction of new technologies of information and communication in order to better understand the ways in which indigenous peoples adopt and make use of new digital technologies according to traditional knowledge and systems of law. The chapter concludes by supporting the need for self-identification of local practices and knowledge within the communities in order to design adequate strategies to gain benefit from the use of ICTs.

scholarly journals Los jóvenes, el pensamiento-otro, y la micro-geopolítica de conocimiento entre generaciones en las Secundarias Comunitarias Indígenas de Oaxaca, México

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Julieta Briseño Roa
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Indigenous Education ◽  
The State ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Two Generations ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Indigenous Teachers

In Oaxaca (Mexico), communality understood as a counter-hegemonic “thinking otherwise” permeated the indigenous teachers’ movement, as it helped identify the existence of a geopolitics of knowledge as a strategy of modernity/coloniality. The present article offers ethnographically based evidence on the everyday construction of one of the community education projects: the model of the Secundarias Comunitarias Indígenas (SCI) of the state of Oaxaca, which was conceived as a project of epistemic emancipation. It contributes to the ongoing discussion on decolonizing (or decolonial) practices that might promote the construction of "ways of thinking otherwise" among young people, by analyzing the tensions that arise between two generations in practices that reveal two ways of conceiving indigenous education. Based on this analysis, the article discusses the relevance of the Educacion Intercultural Bilingüe model in Mexico for indigenous peoples is discussed.

scholarly journals Indigenous Knowledges Driving Technological Innovation

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
The Hi‘iaka Working Group
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cultural Knowledge ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Indigenous Cultures ◽  
Critical Step

This policy brief explores the use and expands the conversation on the ability of geospatial technologies to represent Indigenous cultural knowledge. Indigenous peoples’ use of geospatial technologies has already proven to be a critical step for protecting tribal self-determination. However, the ontological frameworks and techniques of Western geospatial technologies differ from those of Indigenous cultures, which inevitably lead to mistranslation and misrepresentation when applied to cultural knowledge. The authors advocate the creation of new technologies that are more conducive to Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies in an effort to break down the barriers to the expression and preservation of cultural heritage and cultural survival.

Learning to Internet Bank

2007 ◽  
pp. 80-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona Brady
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Banking ◽  
Banking Services ◽  
Internet Bank ◽  
Human Interface ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Internet Banking Services ◽  
New Procedures

The increasing deployment of technology is changing the way services are delivered. New technologies require people to learn new procedures to do the same things they were doing previously as well as to learn to use entirely new services. Business has made little accommodation for the diversity of users and their situations as the use of technology increases and the human interface with its client’s decreases. This study looks at how indigenous peoples in a remote area access Internet banking services. Internet banking is a discrete technological skill that has been effectively acquired without outside assistance or direction: this makes it a useful lens to view the process of technology skill acquisition.

Negotiating Female Authorship in Eighteenth-Century India: Gender and Multilingualism in a Persian Text

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-466
Author(s):  
ZAHRA SHAH
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Indian Woman ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Female Authorship ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractIn the last years of the eighteenth century, an Indian woman authored a work in Persian intended for the entertainment and guidance of students of that language. EntitledMiftāḥ-i Qulūb-i Mubtadiyān(‘The Key of the Hearts of Beginners’), the work comprised of stories from vernacular oral traditions as well as extracts from well-known Persian poetic, historical and ethical works. Although the work was translated into English in 1908 by Annette Beveridge, it has received no serious scholarly attention. Drawing upon recent scholarship offering new ways of thinking about India's multilingual literary past, this article examines the intersection of multiple vernacular and generic traditions as translated and manifested inMiftāḥ-i Qulūb al-Mubtadīyān. While vernacular languages followed different, and in relative terms, more limited routes of circulation and exchange in comparison with cosmopolitan languages such as Persian, their paths of movement were no less significant. Through a close reading of this work and its context, this article seeks to understand how Bībī Ḥashmat al-Daula crafted a distinct, cosmopolitan voice for herself through her deployment of both Persianate and regional Indian traditions.

A History of the Rio Pongo: Time for a New Appraisal?

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 329-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce L. Mouser
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Guinea Coast ◽  
Extensive Documentation ◽  
Clear Link ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern Rivers ◽  
Comprehensive History

Forty-five years ago (1965), when some of us were beginning our studies of the history of the Upper Guinea coast, there existed only a few published general histories of Guinea-Conakry or region-based models to guide us. André Arcin's substantial works (1907 and 1911) provided original but awkward structures from which we could commence our work, but his monographs tended to be based heavily upon a colonial presence, a necessity to make sense of a complex colony, and a reliance upon oral traditions or other uncitationed sources, many of which could not be tested a half century later. Christopher Fyfe's comprehensive history of Sierra Leone had just been published in 1962. Fyfe's foremost emphasis was to chronicle the development of the Sierra Leone settlement and chart that colony's progress, but his extensive documentation was extraordinary in that it demonstrated the clear link between the “Northern Rivers” and British enterprise from Freetown and opened Britain's archives as sources of information about the history of these rivers in new and profound ways.Earlier works by Lucien Marie Francois Famechon, Jules Machat, Fernand Rouget, Laurent Jean B. Bérenger-Férand, Ch. Bour, and others, centering upon the peoples, economies, and terrain of coastal rivers, continued to be instructive, but these authors were writing at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and they tended to treat the histories of indigenous peoples as interesting and exotic and at the same time relatively unimportant to the colony's regional development.

The carrot v. the stick: can copyright be used to enhance access to cultural heritage resources in the networked environment?

2000 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rina Elster Pantalony
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Copyright Protection ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Management Models ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Internet Environment ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

Copyright, if used effectively, managed well and respected in business arrangements, encourages and enhances access to content in the Internet environment. But with the advent of new technologies and the emergence of a knowledge-based society, new ways of thinking are required in order to ensure that the Internet remains a ‘place’ where information can flow with few if any restrictions. Using the modern museum as example, this paper analyzes two types of intellectual property – databases and photographs – to determine whether copyright protection reduces or enhances access. It also touches briefly on some new management models which meet the needs of the users as well as the authors of copyright materials, while still fulfilling the key financial objectives of the organizations that host or provide content.

scholarly journals Reshaping Teacher Education in a Knowledge Society: Chaos and Collingwood

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Speer Lemisko ◽  
Bryant Griffith ◽  
Marc Cutright
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Chaos Theory ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
New Age ◽  
Business World ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

There is a widely held belief that we have entered a new age – an age defined by terms such as the global economy, the global village, and the information age. As the political and business world act and react to this new age, these sectors seek to influence higher education by demanding positivistic and pragmatic approaches to planning, pedagogy, and curriculum development. As institutions of higher education respond to the demands arising from the knowledge society and as the uncritical use of new technologies multiplies, it is incumbent upon teacher educators to clarify their purposes and procedures. The authors argue that exhilarating and empowering ways of thinking and doing in teacher education could arise out of the convergence of the metaphorical application of chaos theory and the type of historical thinking proposed by Robin George Collingwood. To demonstrate how these ways of thinking might come together to counteract the dominant mythologies of positivism, they provide brief outlines of the salient features of chaos theory and of Collingwoodian thought and then explore how these ways of thinking could be utilized to shape teacher education.

Telling Tales with Words

2020 ◽  
pp. 37-58
Author(s):  
Fiona Macintosh ◽  
Justine McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Word ◽  
First Century ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Roman Epic ◽  
Do So

Chapter 3 explores the twenty-first-century turn to orality exemplified in the works of poets such as Kate Tempest, Titilope Sonuga, and Alice Oswald. Engaging with Graeco-Roman epic in their work, these poets do so via a mode of performance that bears similarities with that of the Homeric bard. But this is not the composition-in-performance that Milman Parry and Albert Lord posited as the mode of Homeric performance; rather, these poets compose what John Miles Foley termed ‘Voiced Texts’. Such works hold the written and the spoken word in tension, denying primacy to the written even in our literacy-obsessed age, and making space for a new kind of orality that meets the demands of the contemporary era, while retaining the composite role of composer/performer that is a hallmark of oral traditions. Key to the popularity of this approach is the capacity of oral poetry to merge myth and history (as Jack Goody and Ian Watt argued), and to constantly rewrite its stories, even those that have been staunchly canonized, as the Graeco-Roman epics have been. The chapter concludes by exploring the ways that narrative podcasts, such as Serial and S-Town, evoke epic and mark another route along which the performance of epic is now being developed.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 416-436
Author(s):  
Céline Carayon
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Nonverbal Communication ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Atlantic World ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Age Of Exploration ◽  
Indian Nations

The conclusion provides a synthetic summary of the book’s main arguments and extends its lessons into the eighteenth century. Long after the age of exploration, nonverbal communication continued to occupy a crucial place in French colonization schemes and strategies, in Indigenous resistance to colonial ambitions and the pursuit of Indian nations’ agendas, and in the joint creation of an evolving balance of power in the Atlantic world. The French claimed a special proficiency in nonverbal forms of expression that gave them an edge against their European competitors. Because Indigenous practices and oral traditions were in reality so influential in shaping colonies, the conclusion puts to the test the French’ claim of exceptionalism, and brings comparisons to the experiences of the Spanish and the English in select regions of the Americas. Drawing preliminary conclusions, the author invites further scholarship on nonverbal communication in these colonial contexts. In the end, the French mastery of nonverbal communication was not a mark of a more benign style of colonialism, but instead directly contributed to the violence, erasure, and subjection applied against Indigenous peoples in colonial America.

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