“I Was Grown up Before I Was Born”: Wisdom in Kangiryarmuit Life Stories
This essay draws from a collaborative (SSHRC funded) research project between a Canadian Inuit community and a literacy organization that followed life histories of Inuit (Kangiryarmuit) Elders that were digitally recorded, and translated into English, as a key source of data about traditional Inuit...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/2040 2023-05-15T16:54:18+02:00 “I Was Grown up Before I Was Born”: Wisdom in Kangiryarmuit Life Stories Chambers, Cynthia 2011-07-07 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/tci/article/view/2040 https://doi.org/10.14288/tci.v7i2.2040 eng eng The International Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies (IAACS) http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/tci/article/view/2040/2187 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/tci/article/view/2040 doi:10.14288/tci.v7i2.2040 TCI (Transnational Curriculum Inquiry); Vol 7, No 2 (2010): Life Writing Across Knowledge Traditions; 5-38 1449-8855 10.14288/tci.v7i2 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2011 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/tci.v7i2.2040 https://doi.org/10.14288/tci.v7i2 2023-01-04T07:46:36Z This essay draws from a collaborative (SSHRC funded) research project between a Canadian Inuit community and a literacy organization that followed life histories of Inuit (Kangiryarmuit) Elders that were digitally recorded, and translated into English, as a key source of data about traditional Inuit literacies (Balanoff & Chambers, 2005). Analysis of life history transcripts revealed that within life stories are “clues” (Ingold, 2000) to knowledge sought; that telling stories, including one’s own, is a social activity (Cruikshank, 1998) where meaning is not fixed but generated within the context, in this case, an “interview” of an Elder by Inuit researchers. The life histories, as recorded and transcribed, map out an interconnected world of places, people, and other-than human beings, and activities and experiences within that world. Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) |
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This essay draws from a collaborative (SSHRC funded) research project between a Canadian Inuit community and a literacy organization that followed life histories of Inuit (Kangiryarmuit) Elders that were digitally recorded, and translated into English, as a key source of data about traditional Inuit literacies (Balanoff & Chambers, 2005). Analysis of life history transcripts revealed that within life stories are “clues” (Ingold, 2000) to knowledge sought; that telling stories, including one’s own, is a social activity (Cruikshank, 1998) where meaning is not fixed but generated within the context, in this case, an “interview” of an Elder by Inuit researchers. The life histories, as recorded and transcribed, map out an interconnected world of places, people, and other-than human beings, and activities and experiences within that world. |
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