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It depicts the lives of many characters throughout six parts that contain various numbers of "books", embedded with short chapters that almost function as interconnected short stories. The story does away with normative constructs of time, as the reader is usually placed or "dumped" into various scenarios or moments which come into sharper view as the book moves along. Much of the story takes place in the "present", although lengthy flashbacks and mythos tied to indigenous knowledge, are also woven into the plot. More importantly, the conclusion reinforces the idea and symbol of an almanac as always updated, but never completed. After the closing chapter, the reader is left to imagine what is coming for the many small pieces of the world they spent over 700+ pages getting to know and understand.

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon...

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The main plot line of Ceremony follows the trials of a half-Pueblo, half-white Laguna Pueblo man named Tayo upon returning from World War II. His white doctors say he is suffering from "battle fatigue," or what would today be called post-traumatic stress disorder. However, the novel interweaves several different timelines around Tayo, from both before and after the war, as well as a spiritual timeline where the Thought Woman (also known as Spider Woman), Corn Woman and Reed Woman, the three main Pueblo spiritual entities, create the world and then Hummingbird and Green Bottle Fly must go down to the Fourth World to retrieve Reed Woman to stop a drought. Also in this spiritual timeline is the introduction of the "witchery" and the "destroyers," who are like anti-medicine men, sowing evil and destruction, which the medicine men work to fight against through Ceremony. By the end of the novel, all of these timelines converge in the ceremony of Tayo.

Ceremony (Silko novel) by Leslie Marmon...

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"Duarte ably illustrates how the sovereignty of Native peoples extends beyond their self-identity and governance to their use and adaptation of contemporary information communication technologies in ways that support indigenous worldviews." -Loriene Roy, School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin

University of Washington Press - Books...

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Cybercartography offers rich potential for the mapping of traditional knowledge (TK). At the same time, the particular characteristics of TK pose significant challenges for cybercartographers. TK is more than a collection of informational ‘artefacts’ that can be placed on a map; it forms part of a knowledge system that is often fundamentally different from dominant Western systems. These differences require new paradigms for thinking about maps and their objectives generally, and for thinking more specifically about how information is represented and disseminated through cybercartography. In this chapter, the authors examine the nature of TK and the potential of cybercartography for its representation. The authors consider the role of law (defined as explicit and enforceable rules) and normativity (defined as ‘ought’ statements that guide social relations) in shaping relationships between cartographers and the contributors of TK. They consider how those involved in such projects can use both technological and legal tools to define the terms of their collaboration and to articulate their expectations in sharing their information with a global community.

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Viveiros de Castro, E. (1998). Cosmological Deixis and Amerinidan Perspectivism. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 4 (2), 46...

Viveiros de Castro, Amerindian...

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