Compass, Murray Lee

Автор: King Farina
Название: The Earth Memory Compass: Dinй Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 0700626913 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700626915
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Din?, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces this tradition as it is imparted from generation to generation, and as it has been transformed, and often obscured, by modern modes of education. An autoethnography of sorts, the book follows Farina King’s search for her own Din? identity as she investigates the interconnections among Navajo students, their people, and Din? Bik?yah—or Navajo lands—across the twentieth century.In her exploration of how historical changes in education have reshaped Din? identity and community, King draws on the insights of ethnohistory, cultural history, and Navajo language. At the center of her study is the Din? idea of the Four Directions, in which each of the cardinal directions takes its meaning from a sacred mountain and its accompanying element: East, for instance, is Sis Naajin? (Blanca Peak) and white shell; West, Dook’o’oos???d (San Francisco Peaks) and abalone; North, Dib? Nitsaa (Hesperus Peak) and black jet; South, Tsoodzi? (Mount Taylor) and turquoise. King elaborates on the meanings and teachings of the mountains and directions throughout her book to illuminate how Navajos have embedded memories in landmarks to serve as a compass for their people—a compass threatened by the dislocation and disconnection of Din? students from their land, communities, and Navajo ways of learning.Critical to this story is how inextricably Indigenous education and experience is intertwined with American dynamics of power and history. As environmental catastrophes and struggles over resources sever the connections among peoplehood, land, and water, King's book holds out hope that the teachings, guidance, and knowledge of an earth memory compass still have the power to bring the people and the earth together.

Автор: Monmonier Mark
Название: Clock and Compass: How John Byron Plato Gave Farmers a Real Address
ISBN: 1609388216 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781609388218
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: When an interested buyer eager to see his calves couldn`t find his farm, John Byron Plato realized that an RFD postal address was only good for delivering mail. His solution was a map-and-directory combo that used direction and distance. What follows is a tale of persistence and failure as rural farming declined.

Автор: Kohnle Sarah, Baca Heidy Lanza
Название: For Such a Time as This: Flavors and Recipes from My Honduras
ISBN: 1942168322 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781942168324
Издательство: Неизвестно
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