trying to write up Kukaniloko data - The place names’ association with the stars they mark requires some explanation and interpretation. Those explanations and interpretations are entangled with other contexts. As Hawaiian scholar Ūmi Perkins wrote, ‘It should be noted that the very act of defining components of Indigenous theory, as it involves separation of aspects of thought, defies the holistic “component.” Thus, there is fluidity between components that clouds distinctions and categories.’ He was writing of the development of critical indigenous theory, but the contradiction between and incompatibility of scholarly language with indigenous knowledge systems is likewise a difficulty in shaping nonlinear knowledge complexes (interrelated parts) and implexes (things which are entangled) into writing, a necessarily linear form. Knowing where to start is rather like finding the beginning of a circle, or like finding the start of a Moibus strip.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 02:39:31 +0000
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