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We Believe in Our Story: Using Indigenous Accounts of Migration Experience to Create Promotional Narratives for Diaspora Tourism
Get PDFHula as a Way of Knowing
Get PDFThis article describes the author\u27s personal journey as a trained classical musician beginning from early childhood. The subsequent study of hula as an indigenous Hawaiian form of communication is further examined against the backdrop of Western musical knowledge and ways of doing. Hula as an ancient art form is discussed with regard to its classifications, uses, and multiple layers of meaning communicated through gesture.
A Conversation with the World
Get PDF"A Conversation with the World" was compiled by Audrey Maretzki, IK: Other Ways of Knowing editor, and is based on telephone conversations with Mr. Graham who provided personal biographical documents as well as information about the youth whose photos were selected for inclusion in this article
Quechuan Voices: The Art of Storytelling through Song
Get PDFSarah Anderson examines Claudia Llosa\u27s 2009 film, The Milk of Sorrow (La teta asustada) for its use of song as a storytelling medium for expressing Quechuan women\u27s rights in Peru. The author argues that Llosa\u27s film represents Quechuan women\u27s healing processes and their desire for liberation from the trauma of rape and the specters of race, class, and gender oppressions experienced during Peru\u27s 1980-2000 Civil War. Anderson explicates the main character Fausta\u27s song for three major symbols of Quechuan knowledge: healing the disease contracted by "the milk of sorrow," with traditional medicinal practices; Quechuan links to traditional food sources and land rights through a potato hidden in Fausta\u27s vagina; and the potato\u27s manifestation into a growing plant as a symbol of hope for indigenous Quechuan assertion of culture, land, and identity rights, especially for women
Channeling the Body\u27s Wisdom
No full textThis article describes the author\u27s experience with dance as a sensory experience. The author discusses dance as an experience, an art form, and a way of investigating the author\u27s connection with the past and her ancestors