Category: Cultural Heritage Data and Social Engagement 2022
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Destroying the Canon
I feel like this semester, the most passion for my role in research came from thinking about canonical parameters. Over the last sixteen weeks, I have been trying to apply these restrictions to learning in all of my classes. These are my thoughts as time has gone by… I came into this semester looking forward…
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Indigenous Storytelling
I thought long and hard about going with my original blog post idea of “Indigenous Genealogical Storytelling” but the more I wrote about “Digitizing Indigenous Familial Kinship” I felt like there was a lot already covered about genealogical complications. I will be inserting different things that I have been told while talking about digital Indigenous…
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The Highs and Lows of digitizing Indigenous Familial Knowledge
Describing Native kinship can be one of the most frustrating, amazing, wonderful, and confusing things that one can do. Jessica Restaino, in her discussion of role and misfit spaces, says there is a shifting space where processes reshape who we are (p.85). Fictive kinship reflects this same idea; our relationships and obligations change in this…
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The Highs and Lows of digitizing cultural knowledge
The Highs and Lows of digitizing cultural knowledge How can we better understand how these practices effect, and affect, the materialization ofsubjects, objects, and the relations between them? How can we engage our data culture(s) in practical,critical, and generative ways? Acker and Clement I have made a considerable effort to think about digitizing cultural knowledge…
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Rhetoric of Reciprocity
Source: Allison Steinmeyer According to early definitions of rhetoric, it is defined as “all of the available means of persuasion” by Aristotle. Quintillian took it a step further and said that it can’t just be all means necessary, but there is a responsibility to be a “good man speaking well.” When we think about Quintillian’s…
Numunu Family Tree 