scholarly journals Fulfilling the Promise. . . An Essay on Swedish Archaeology and Archaeology in Sweden

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Noel D. Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
World Archaeology ◽  
The Subject

This paper presents a vision of archaeology in Sweden intended to transcend traditional Nordic and Euroamerican perspectives and build on the potentials of Swedish diversity and geography. Sweden is viewed as the northwestern corner of Eurasia and a meeting ground of longterm European and circumpolar cultural and environmental forces. As a player in world archaeology, Sweden can make major contributions to the growth of new theoretical and methodological perspectives incorporating western and non-western lindigenous) ways of knowing. The subject of archaeology is undergoing post-national reformation and must redefine its institutions, better assert its public roles and clarify its message to achieve its full promise.

The Mystical Experience, or the Way to Transformative Union

2020 ◽  
pp. 272-292
Author(s):  
Puiu Ionita
Keyword(s):  
Mystical Experience ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
The Social ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Romanian Orthodox Church ◽  
Prayer Of The Heart ◽  
Romanian Orthodox

Mysticism is a way of knowing, but one based solely on experience. It is basically knowledge through love. Although religions have visible differences, mysticism is only one. The yogi and the Kabbalah worshiper, the Sufi, the hesychast and the Western mystical, all go through the same route, have the same behaviour and follow the same purpose. In contrast to other ways of knowing, the mystical way is one of direct experience. Knowledge is not achieved through a focus on the object, but by transforming the subject itself. Not by a protrusion, but by deepening itself. The mysterious path leads inexorably inwards. It is an ascending road passing through asceticism, unceasing prayer (the prayer of the heart) and progressing enlightening, to reach eventually, through ecstasy and revelation, the uniting purpose (Unio Mystica). Although secret and based on initiation, sometimes mysticism attracted massive groups of people, having a strong impact on the social level. Thus, in the last century Romania, there occurred two phenomena mainly due to the Eastern mysticism, respectively to hesychastic teaching and experience. These were the revival movement of religious life within the Romanian Orthodox Church, called the “Army of God”, and the movement initiated by intellectuals from the group “Burning Bush”.

scholarly journals Exploring Art and Craft in Teacher Education Whilst Going Toward a Performative Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-81
Author(s):  
Samira Jamouchi
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Textile Materials ◽  
Art Form ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Teacher Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Active Pedagogy ◽  
Artist Teacher ◽  
Epistemological Framework

Since 1997, I have returned to and revisited textile materials through different types of approaches. As an artist, I have been working with soft sculptures and immersive installations. As an artist-teacher, I sought to (re-)introduced wool felting tradition to teacher students in Norway. As a researcher, I re-turn (Barad, 2014) my approach to wool felting and engage diffractively (ibid.) within teacher education. I am now still exploiting a performative approach to the subject of arts and craft within teacher education. This approach is conjointly inspired by contemporary visual art form of expressions and by Barad’s performative ontology. In this text I attempt to convey my working processes as I relate how I started to engage with a performative approach to drawing in the field of arts and craft in teacher education, and how I now aim to enact further a performative approach to wool felting. This approach is inspired by post-humanism perspectives. Consequently, traditional binaries or dichotomies one can find in assumptions related to the humanities, as subject-object and theory-practice (van der Tuin and Dolphijn, 2010), are here deterritorialized to be simultaneously and differently reterriorialized (Deleuze and Guattari,1980). My approach goes thus beyond the theory-practice division to hold an intra-active pedagogy (Lenz Taguchi, 2010) and an ethico-onto-epistemological framework (Barad, 2007). This implies a set of mind considering an intimated relationship between making, being and knowing: all those aspects are present under a creative process, not isolated and nor independent of the process. Adopting a performative approach with my students, I do not necessarily privilege a linear approach and I do not necessarily privilege human agency above non-human entities. Following an ethico-onto-epistemological framework means here to merge the phenomenon of felting (beings) and its written study and analysis (ways of knowing).

scholarly journals Heather’s Homestead/Marotahei: The Invasion of the Waikato and Ways of Knowing Our Past in Aotearoa New Zealand

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Hugh Campbell ◽  
William Kainana Cuthers
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Relational Ontology ◽  
Pivotal Moments ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Moment

The British invasion of the Māori region of the Waikato in 1863 was one of the most pivotal moments in the colonisation of Aotearoa New Zealand. It has been the subject of multiple authoritative histories and sits at the centre of historical discussions of sovereignty, colonial politics and the dire consequences of colonisation. This article approaches this complex historical moment through the personal histories of a Māori/Pākehā homestead located at the political and geographic epicentre of the invasion. This mixed whanau/family provides the opportunity to explore a more kinship-based ontology of the invisible lines of influence that influenced particular actions before and during the invasion. It does so by mobilising two genealogical approaches, one by author Hugh Campbell which explores the British/Pākehā individuals involved in this family and uses formal documentation and wider historical writing to explain key dynamics—but also to expose a particular limitation of reliance on Western ontologies and formal documentation alone to explain histories of colonisation. In parallel to this approach, the other author—William Kainana Cuthers—uses both formal/Western and a Māori/Pasifika relational ontology of enquiry, and in doing so, allows both authors to open up a set of key insights into this pivotal moment in the history of Aotearoa New Zealand and into the micro-dynamics of colonisation.

An Asian American Epistemology of Reading: Aiiieeeee! and Ekphrasis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elda E. Tsou
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Asian American Literature ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Asian America ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

The contested category of Asian American literature presents a rich opportunity to explore questions of epistemology. At the start of the 21st century, a formal turn in literary study further illuminates shifts in structures of knowledge and ways of knowing. Asian American literature emerged in the 1970s as a critical response to a history of exclusion and misrepresentation. As the field established itself, literary knowledge was defined quite narrowly: it is produced by Asian Americans and the subject of knowledge is Asian America itself. The reading practices that arise from this central paradigm have been called “instrumental” or “sociological,” insofar as they conceive of literary language, with varying degrees of formal interest, as an instrument or expression of Asian America. From the 2000s onward, scholarship on Asian American form and poetics has grown steadily, and what distinguishes this particular movement is its privileging of form as its primary object of investigation. Correspondingly the subject of knowledge also shifts from Asian America as the default referent to Asian American literature and the literary tradition. Critics note that one consequence of making form the prime objective is a potential tendency to drift away from the ambit of Asian America altogether. Those literary texts featuring conspicuous formal experimentation have garnered a lot of attention; less has been paid to the early texts, like the anthology Aiiieeeee!: An Anthology of Asian-American Writers (1974), where formal concerns are not as explicit. Yet upon closer examination of Aiiieeeee! one discovers another type of figurative activity that can help redefine Asian American literary knowledge, offering us new ways of reading and looking at race.

Hermeneutics: a Pentecostal Option

Pneuma ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard M. Ervin
Keyword(s):  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Faith And Reason ◽  
Basic Assumptions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ways Of Thinking

AbstractFundamental to the study of hermeneutics, as to any academic disciplines, is the question of epistemology. What are the grounds of knowledge ? How does one determine the limits and validity of knowledge? It is not our purpose to discuss the subject in any detail but simply to note basic assumptions that affect our approach to hermeneutics. Two ways of knowing are so much a part of our Western ways of thinking that they are received as axiomatic viz. sensory experience and reason. Any theology that limits itself only to these two ways of knowing is locked into the perennial dichotomy between faith and reason to which the so-called New Hermeneutic1 seeks to speak, however, without much success for reasons to be discussed later.

Cross-Cultural Interaction and Change in Recent Old World Research

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-83
Author(s):  
Peter S. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Culture Change ◽  
New World ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
American Antiquity ◽  
Old World ◽  
World Archaeology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Direct Use

The aim of this review is to introduce readers of American Antiquity to some recent literature in Old World archaeology on the subject of cross-cultural interaction and its role in culture change. The coverage is not representative of Old World archaeology as a whole, but rather focuses on European research, with which this reviewer is most familiar, and primarily introduces literature published in English. It is hoped that readers of this journal may find material in this review that can be of direct use to them in their research on questions of culture change in New World contexts.

scholarly journals Using Slowmation for animated storytelling to represent non-Aboriginal preservice teachers' awareness of "relatedness to country"

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony McKnight ◽  
Garry Hoban ◽  
Wendy Nielsen
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Digital Storytelling ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Assessment Data ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
Special Place ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Stop Motion

<span>In this study, a group (N=15) of final year non-Aboriginal preservice teachers participated in an elective subject that aimed to raise their awareness about Aboriginal ways of knowing. A vital aspect of the course was developing the preservice teachers' awareness of "relatedness to country" which is a key belief for Aboriginal people. The non-Aboriginal preservice teachers selected their own special place and then experienced Aboriginal ways of knowing throughout the course and visited local Aboriginal sites to hear and listen to stories shared by an Aboriginal Elder. At the end of the subject, the preservice teachers created their own animated story about their special place using an approach called called </span><em>Slowmation</em><span> (abbreviated from "Slow animation"), which is a narrated stop-motion animation that is played slowly at 2 photos/second to tell a story. It is a simplified way for preservice teachers to make animations that integrates aspects of claymation, digital storytelling and object animation. To research this approach, the preservice teachers were interviewed at the beginning and end of the course as well as submitting their animation for assessment. Data collected revealed that all the preservice teachers were able to make an animated story explaining their relationship to their "special place" and most developed a deeper understanding of what a relational approach to country means. Getting the preservice teachers to make animated stories helped them to reflect upon their special place and was a creative way to develop their awareness of cultural diversity, especially about Aboriginal ways of knowing.</span>

Faulkner Didn’t Invent Yoknapatawpha, Everybody Knows That

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-14
Author(s):  
LeAnne Howe
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Survival Strategy ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Tribal Nations

This chapter introduces the reader to some of the Indigenous ways of knowing that inform the methodology of Native South studies. It illustrates how Choctaws and other Southeastern nations have turned to “core narratives as a survival strategy over millennia” of challenges posed both by the natural environment and by the “tired, hungry foreigners” who have sought refuge in Native homelands. Turning to the subject of weather prediction, Howe cites a range of writings—from Bienville’s correspondence of the early 1700s to Choctaw chief Ben Dwight’s inquiries among leaders of other tribal nations in the 1950s—as evidence not only that the tribes possessed a diversity of Indigenous knowledge “about long-term weather processes” but that they shared this knowledge intertribally, helping each other weather the threat of ecodisaster. The chapter faults Faulkner for Native characterizations that trade on stereotype, but also also, finds his imagination to be “driven” and “enlivened” by Native stories. His own ways of knowing were in some respects compatible with the story-centered epistemologies that are explored.

Towards Reconciliation: Teaching Gender and Music in the Context of Indigenous Australian Women's Performance

1998 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mackinlay
Keyword(s):  
Performance Practice ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Indigenous Australian ◽  
International Scale ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Indigenous Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The University

This paper addresses issues related to the conflicting paradigms of Western systems of knowledge and Indigenous systems of knowledge within the context of teaching about gender and music in Indigenous Australian women's performance practice. I will first describe the subject which I am currently teaching at the University of Queensland. I will then discuss the theoretical concerns related to teaching about gender and music in terms of the differences between Western and Indigenous ways of knowing about these concepts. I will then examine the conflicts which arise in the context of teaching Indigenous studies within a non-Indigenous framework. Finally, conclusions will be drawn in regard to the reconciling the differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous ways of knowing and the implications for teaching this type of curriculum on an international scale.

scholarly journals Science and Self: Aging as Woven

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 671-671
Author(s):  
Helen Kivnick
Keyword(s):  
Psychosocial Development ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One

Abstract Gerontology is a field both scientific and practice-based. Aging, the subject of this field, is an experience in which all human beings participate. But scientific pillars of objectivity, quantifiability, control, and external validity have long mitigated against gerontological scholars effectively moving back and forth between professional scholarship and practice, on the one hand, and personal experience, on the other. Qualitative research approaches, informed by the humanities and arts, utilize alternative ways of knowing that, when added to positivistic science, enable us to construct a body of gerontological knowledge that is robust and useful, and that also incorporates wisdom. Aging, wisdom, and integrality—these all matter. Although often mischaracterized, Erikson’s theory of healthy psychosocial development throughout the life-cycle (Erikson, Erikson, & Kivnick, 1986) weaves these constructs together in ways that can meaningfully inform professional and personal experiences of gerontology. This presentation illustrates one aging gerontologist’s engagement with such weaving.

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