Tag: ceremony
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Don’t just toss your tree…

Do this next time you’re saying farewell to a beloved friend: dress them beautifully with decorations and surround them with light and love, speak your gratitude aloud as you touch them with reverence, bring them to their final resting place and offer tobacco, consecrated blood, and wine; drum and sing and dance for joy and…
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Decolonizing Research through Performance Ethnography

Is performance ethnography my true academic home? What do other researchers in this field feel about Indigenous Research Methodologies? How do embodied cultural practices threaten or uphold cultural continuity? How does the Shaman function in relation to embodiment, intersubjectivity and relationality – is there a universal shamanic praxis at play?
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Reimagining Research: Embracing Indigenous Methodologies

No matter our cultural heritage, genetic ancestry, or current social context, we are all indigenous to this Earth, and to each other. Honoring the relationships that create our shared reality, and those connections that become the lived experience of our shared humanity, begins the imperative work of reclaiming our inherent dignity, resolving the existential dilemma…


