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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
The Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Mexico in El cultivo del maize en Yojovi by Javier Castellanos
Get PDFThe author applies an ecocritical perspective to the study of Javier Castellanos\u27 1988 monograph of Yojovi corn farmers\u27 testimonies, El cultivo del maíz en Yojovi. The author\u27s ecocritical lens establishes Yojovi rights to determine food sustainability practices and to determine land resource use. In particular, the author examines the conflicts between Yojovi knowledge of corn varieties and their cultivation and the pressure to alter their practices to adhere to genetically modified corn crop production. She also reveals the conflicts between Yojovi narratives that situate humans within their natural habitats and the Western scientific paradigm\u27s narratives that tend to separate humans from the natural world
"The North Chose Us": Selected Poems by Nils-Aslak Valkeapää as Expressions of Sami Cultural Ecology and Indigenous Rights Concerns
Get PDFThis article analyzes three poems by acclaimed Sami poet Nils-Aslak Valkeapää. The author examines poetic language to underscore its ability to evoke Sami identity and the geography and ecology found where the Sami live in Fennoscandia (the far north of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and northwestern Russia). The author also weaves together each poem\u27s theme(s) in order to emphasize the importance of the Sami\u27s distinct perspective toward the lands surrounding them, and the Sami\u27s place as its first inhabitants. Throughout the article, the author connects poetic structure, form, and content, bringing together aesthetic and indigenous rights concerns, especially Sami rights to determine their own cultural practices, which involve a deep relationship with Fennoscandia\u27s ecologically-specific co-inhabitants: for example, its reindeer, fish, and birds
Kwasinaboo Puha (Snake Medicine)
Get PDFThis article is part historical narrative and part personal memoir. The author begins by explaining the Comanche tribal history of kwasinaboo puha (snake medicine). She then discusses the knowledge of kwasinaboo puha that is passed down to Comanche children through an intergenerational process that combines empirical knowledge of snake taxonomy with cultural knowledge of the kwasinaboo puha story. The author then turns to her own initiation into Comanche tribal life by listening to her grandfather\u27s oral performance of the kwasinaboo puha story. Finally, the author reveals her adult memories of crossing paths with snakes and how kwasinaboo puha presents itself in her poetry. As a result, this article provides readers with an insight into the empirical and metaphorical practices necessary for the continuance of Comanche communal identity and survival in the Lawton area of Oklahoma
Decolonization and Life History Research: The Life of a Native Woman
Get PDFFocusing on stories told to the author by her mother, this life history work counters critiques that qualitative life history research is weak on method and theory by taking a decolonizing approach. Working with decolonizing theory to understand the stories shared, the author examines how the continued colonization of native women\u27s minds and bodies impacts their humanity in both perception and treatment by others. The author discuses decolonizing research as both action and process, considers the effectiveness of a decolonizing strategy in life history research, and calls on others to take a decolonizing approach in their own work.
Hula 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.
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
Note: Contrast enhancement and artifact suppression in computed tomography using sinogram normalization
Get PDFThe intensity and direction of the incident beam at the sample position in synchrotron full-field transmission X-ray microscopy is subject to change. Incident-beam fluctuation in computed tomography results in significant contrast degradation of the reconstructed image. In the present study, we devised a simple method by which that problem could be corrected using sinogram normalization. According to our results, the image contrast was improved by 13%, and the artifacts were suppressed. © 2018 Author(s).11Nsciescopu
South Korea's Interests behind the Reactivation of IK-CEPA Negotiations with Indonesia
Get PDFIndonesia-Korea Comprehensive Economic Agreement Partnership (IK-CEPA) is a lengthy bilateral agreement. Negotiations were terminated in 2014 due to a discrepancy in the agreement between the Korean and Indonesian governments. Then, in 2018, Korea agreed to reactivate the IK-CEPA agreement in response to the Indonesian government's request. This paper analyzes the reasons behind South Korea's foreign policy in deciding to reactivate the IK-CEPA. The author uses the concept of National Interest to identify Korean foreign policy decision-making. A qualitative descriptive approach is used to uncover data about the phenomena. The author examines data from books, journals, government data, and reliable online articles. Then, summarize and evaluate all the relevant facts. Research shows that Korea's policy to reactivate the IK-CEPA agreement is based on South Korea‘s desire to achieve a trade surplus while expanding investment finance in Indonesia
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