Caminando y miando : a reflection on academic practice ...

• Main Author: Horner, Geoffrey Allen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2013
• Subjects: Refugio; Rojas; Masset; haida
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0073677; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0073677

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 ...