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wakest ⁂

Sitting in a riad in Casablanca, Morocco, reading about Selk'nam (a language and people from Chile / Argentina) on Wikipedia and then following a tangent to this article about language revival:
newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03

The American perspective is strong here watch out, but there were some interesting tidbits I hadnt heard before, like "Kōhanga Reo" or language nests. Nor did I know that Hawaiian was banned in schools till 1986.

3 Aug 2023 at 12:33 | Open on social.wake.st
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Matthias Eberl

@liaizon
Nice! That small ethnic group played a key part in my long ago PhD thesis.

You can still listen to chants in Selk'nam from a very old recording of Lola Kiepja. Enjoy - it's amazing.

youtube.com/watch?v=JjuE4LEsol

3 Aug 2023 at 17:30 | Open on social.tchncs.de
wakest ⁂

@rufposten this is a great recording thanks for sharing. What was your thesis about?

3 Aug 2023 at 17:34 | Open on social.wake.st
Matthias Eberl

@liaizon
An austrian missionary, Martin Gusinde, wrote 3 huge ethnographies on the tierra del fuego indians: Selk'nam, Halakwulup and Yámana. Each about 1000 pages.

I tried to find out how european values and discourse are still visible in his judgments about the Selk'nam indians e.g. ideas from dime novels, upcoming hygiene movement or older noble savage ideas.

So it was more a text analysis reflecting on the generation of judgments in cultural contact than an classic ethnographic work.

@liaizon
An austrian missionary, Martin Gusinde, wrote 3 huge ethnographies on the tierra del fuego indians: Selk'nam, Halakwulup and Yámana. Each about 1000 pages.

I tried to find out how european values and discourse are still visible in his judgments about the Selk'nam indians e.g. ideas from dime novels, upcoming hygiene movement or older noble savage ideas.

3 Aug 2023 at 17:46 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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