Caminando y miando : a reflection on academic practice
department or school: Arts, Faculty of
department or school: History, Department of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Horner, Geoffrey Allen
issued: 2013-04-04T09:10:33Z
issued: 2013
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis is an exploration of academic methodologies including scholarly distance, the archive, and linear time, using the insights that I gained as a researcher and friend with Refugio Gregorio Bautista, a Nu Savi traditional food chef from Oaxaca; Mexico, Pedro Herminio Bautista Rojas, also Nu Savi from Oaxaca and an agricultural expert; and Jaalen Edenshaw, a Haida carver from Masset, B.C.. During my time with these three indigenous people and their communities, I learned about different aspects of their ancestral practices, and participated in different ways in their work, planting, cooking Oaxacan chocolate mole sauce, as well as sharing stories and experiences. In this dissertation, I use the insights that I have gained so far from my experience with them to explore ways in which the three central tools of the disciplines of history and anthropology are limiting due to a legacy of the trivialization of non-written ways of knowing. Though some scholars are increasingly focused on the embodied aspects of scholarly work that often go unacknowledged or unappreciated, my experience with Pedro, Doña Vicky and Jaalen has opened me to the possibility of ways of knowing that put embodiment and relationships to the land at the centre of knowing. Through a dialogue with academic sources and with the three participants, I traverse different facets of the construction of knowledge as it takes place in academic settings where people rely heavily on visual and textual systems for the production of truth and meaning.
aggregated CHO: https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/44118
note: 94Chapter 2Opening and Viewing the Chapter 2 Video essayChapter 2 of my dissertation is a video essay to be watched on your computer. Made in collaboration with Doña Vicky (Refugio Gregorio Bautista), Jaalen Edenshaw, and Pedro Herminio Bautista Rojas, the video explores their ancestral practices. After reading the In-troduction and Chapter 1, please find the files for the video essay in Supplemental Materials at the following location:https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/44078Note: If you are reading this document from the supplementary URL location, you will already be looking at the file listing.95To view the video essay with the subtitles, I strongly recommend using VLC Media player, a well established, free, open source, cross-platform media viewer.To download VLC, click here: www.videolan.orgViewing Instructions1) Download all of the video files to a folder on your computer.2) I’ve split the video essay into three files. Each .AVI file has an accompanying .SRT file of the same name that contains the English subtitles for that part:Horner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p1.aviHorner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p1.srtHorner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p2.aviHorner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p2.srtHorner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p3.aviHorner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p3.srt3) Open the first file (Horner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p1.avi) in VLC and the subtitles should load automatically. Press the “S” key to cycle the subtitles Off if you do not require them.NOTE: If the subtitles do not load automatically, go to the Video menu: Video -> Subtitles track -> Open File... and choose the subtitles file (.SRT) that has the same name as the AVI file you are watching (e.g., “Horner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p1.srt” for “Horner_G_Caminando_video_essay_p1.avi” and so on).4) When you are finished watching the first part, open the second and third AVI files (P2 & P3) in VLC. caminando y miando: a Reflection on academic PRactice by GeoffRey allen HoRneR B.a., the University of British columbia, 1998 m.a…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2013-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0073677
language: eng
degree discipline: History
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
type: Text
type: Moving Image
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44118