Chapter 4. My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher
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Wary Kamaiurá Sabino
Abstract
The present work aims to document my personal trajectory and experience as an indigenous student and researcher of my own language and culture. This has been an experience during a period of my life in which I lived outside my village while seeking the enhancement of my knowledge, capacities and skills. I consider this as a tool that enabled my education and knowledge about my own history and that of my native fellows. This tool allows for the better knowledge of people about their reality and it reflects that there is great richness within their society’s culture. I present as well a reflexive discourse about the educational process from a non-written culture to another culture that privileges the written materiality, and about how I processed this particular aspect while meeting both cultural forms that are structurally and conceptually different by nature.
Abstract
The present work aims to document my personal trajectory and experience as an indigenous student and researcher of my own language and culture. This has been an experience during a period of my life in which I lived outside my village while seeking the enhancement of my knowledge, capacities and skills. I consider this as a tool that enabled my education and knowledge about my own history and that of my native fellows. This tool allows for the better knowledge of people about their reality and it reflects that there is great richness within their society’s culture. I present as well a reflexive discourse about the educational process from a non-written culture to another culture that privileges the written materiality, and about how I processed this particular aspect while meeting both cultural forms that are structurally and conceptually different by nature.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction. Language, culture and identity 1
- Chapter 1. Philosophy and philosophical practice 7
- Chapter 2. Translation and transnationality in the Himalaya 23
- Chapter 3. North-South relations in linguistic science 43
- Chapter 4. My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher 63
- Chapter 5. The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesis 75
- Chapter 6. A framing-based account of critical cultural awareness 111
- Chapter 7. Cultural “Signs of life” in politics 141
- Chapter 8. Construing the self in discourse 157
- Chapter 9. Embodiment, personification, identity 181
- Chapter 10. Mid hefigum byrþenum 203
- Chapter 11. Cultural and cognitive aspects of narrative 227
- Chapter 12. How can I persuade you without making self-assertions? 249
- Chapter 13. “Keeping up with the times” 275
- Chapter 14. A study of Chinese non-basic color terms from the perspective of cognitive semantics 295
- Index 317
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Introduction. Language, culture and identity 1
- Chapter 1. Philosophy and philosophical practice 7
- Chapter 2. Translation and transnationality in the Himalaya 23
- Chapter 3. North-South relations in linguistic science 43
- Chapter 4. My journey as an indigenous Xinguan teacher and researcher 63
- Chapter 5. The representation-cohesion-stance hypothesis 75
- Chapter 6. A framing-based account of critical cultural awareness 111
- Chapter 7. Cultural “Signs of life” in politics 141
- Chapter 8. Construing the self in discourse 157
- Chapter 9. Embodiment, personification, identity 181
- Chapter 10. Mid hefigum byrþenum 203
- Chapter 11. Cultural and cognitive aspects of narrative 227
- Chapter 12. How can I persuade you without making self-assertions? 249
- Chapter 13. “Keeping up with the times” 275
- Chapter 14. A study of Chinese non-basic color terms from the perspective of cognitive semantics 295
- Index 317
