Hmm..the library component is not confusing, it's just going through the different articles to see which ones best relate to my community is slightly annoying. Though all of them have some relevance, its just difficult to determine which has more significance over the other since none have a general over view of my community. They each deal with a certain aspect of my community. Overall the ones I've chosen fit, in the sense they offer a decent outsider view of my community.
Although I hate doing things like this, this project is actually fun. Professor Lee allowed us to choice something on our own, something that interest us. By doing this, anyone who actually belongs to a community should be finding this project quite enjoyable. It really hasn't seemed like work and since its something I enjoy its not boring.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
11-4-08 Work
Guaman Poman’s New Chronicle
What is our way of understanding culture, community?
"When I look at a culture, I look at what the culture values, language , their religion, there norms, race.
Contact Zone
When cultures clash they begin to take from each other. They begin transculturation. As they take norms and exchange it norms they begin to assimilate and understand each other more but on a different level. A level in which they become equal.
The standard understanding is very set and fix. And if we look at things to be one way, we would not get certain things. "
That was my writing for today, pertaining to the Contact Zone.
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“If one thinks of cultures, or literatures, as discrete, coherently structured, monolingual edifices, Guaman Poma’s text, and indeed any auto ethnographic work, appears anomalous or chaotic."
This was taken from our actual task. It expresses what I was trying to get at but in a different way. My view was a way that we have one way to look at things or we look at specific things. There isn’t really a better understanding of another culture. They were kinda similar but my way never really viewed another culture as inferior.
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on a side note:
Prof.Lee asked us ( my group) why might cultures feel superior when looking at another, I thought to myself of pride, honor, and wanting to feel special. It really didn’t apply but it just popped in.
What is our way of understanding culture, community?
"When I look at a culture, I look at what the culture values, language , their religion, there norms, race.
Contact Zone
When cultures clash they begin to take from each other. They begin transculturation. As they take norms and exchange it norms they begin to assimilate and understand each other more but on a different level. A level in which they become equal.
The standard understanding is very set and fix. And if we look at things to be one way, we would not get certain things. "
That was my writing for today, pertaining to the Contact Zone.
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“If one thinks of cultures, or literatures, as discrete, coherently structured, monolingual edifices, Guaman Poma’s text, and indeed any auto ethnographic work, appears anomalous or chaotic."
This was taken from our actual task. It expresses what I was trying to get at but in a different way. My view was a way that we have one way to look at things or we look at specific things. There isn’t really a better understanding of another culture. They were kinda similar but my way never really viewed another culture as inferior.
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on a side note:
Prof.Lee asked us ( my group) why might cultures feel superior when looking at another, I thought to myself of pride, honor, and wanting to feel special. It really didn’t apply but it just popped in.
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