...Native American Culture Amanda Thaden-Fidjeland December 21, 2015 ENG 301 Marc Bonanni Storytelling is the writing of the past, living the present and preserving the future. As storytelling is changing due to changes in the tribal communities of the native people, the traditional form is threatened. Storytelling has been passed down from generation to generation and remains their main form of communication even after written word was commonly accepted. The Native Americans were divided in several groups and possessed their own customs and language. These tribes lived in regional groups and shared common culture and history. Storytelling was one of the most significant practices of the Native Americans; though their stories can be classified, still many similar aspects have been observed. The storytelling was an oral practice which had revealed the tales of their past. The Native American culture was diverse and had traditional values and came with the rich and insightful past. Storytelling has been a prominent practice among the Native Americans; this practice has passed from one generation to another and has been a way of communicating wisdom. These indigenous people believed in the art of communication to explore and explain their past and therefore the stories were narrated orally by one to another. They depended upon unwritten art to share their customs, history, legends and rituals and held the feeling of pride in doing so. The powerful tales that were narrated by...
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...On the Horizon Emerald Article: Review of Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management by John Seeley Brown Sharon L. Comstock Article information: To cite this document: Sharon L. Comstock, (2006),"Review of Storytelling in Organizations: Why Storytelling Is Transforming 21st Century Organizations and Management by John Seeley Brown", On the Horizon, Vol. 14 Iss: 4 pp. 175 - 177 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/10748120610708104 Downloaded on: 16-09-2012 References: This document contains references to 3 other documents To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com This document has been downloaded 687 times since 2006. * Users who downloaded this Article also downloaded: * Hui Chen, Miguel Baptista Nunes, Lihong Zhou, Guo Chao Peng, (2011),"Expanding the concept of requirements traceability: The role of electronic records management in gathering evidence of crucial communications and negotiations", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 63 Iss: 2 pp. 168 - 187 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00012531111135646 Brian Matthews, Catherine Jones, Bartlomiej Puzon, Jim Moon, Douglas Tudhope, Koraljka Golub, Marianne Lykke Nielsen, (2010),"An evaluation of enhancing social tagging with a knowledge organization system", Aslib Proceedings, Vol. 62 Iss: 4 pp. 447 - 465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00012531011074690 Paul Clough, Jiayu Tang, Mark M. Hall, Amy Warner, (2011),"Linking archival data to location:...
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...Sell a story…tell a product. Storytelling has been one of the oldest arts in the human history, ¿Why we would use something that old for an innovating idea? Stories are carried with feelings, and sensations, they transport you to an exact place where you can feel the cold air in your cheeks, you can smell the roses, and hear the rush of the water. The key Word: Emotions. Times in Marketing has changed, in the last years the strategy was cold and undirected to the costumer, now marketing is trying to reconnected with them. By telling a story, you start with “Once upon a time” creating a background so the person that will be hearing your story feels that he is part of that beginning, he satisfies his necessity of belonging, so as the story keep growing he will feel identify and emotionally correspond with the story of the brand and not just to the product. The Brand Storytelling is giving the costumer more than a product to or a bunch of numbers and statistics. The idea is humanizing brands through the power of Storytelling. Storytelling and marketing share a common goal - to create communication that is interesting and encourages a specific reaction. Organizational consultants and managers have also discovered the power of storytelling in organizations. A good story of organizational transformation in one organization might motivate similar organizations to change as well; also, the informal stories people tell to each other about organizational norms, policies and...
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...When having a conversation with family, friends, or a colleague, are you aware of what you are saying? Are you aware of the devices that you use to shift the conversation in your favor or even to make your point more relatable? Contrary to popular belief, metaphors are a part of our everyday life; they are ubiquitous. We use them in everyday conversations more often than we may realize. Metaphors are powerful devices; often times we use them subconsciously, but they still manage to deliver the same validity. The aim of this paper is to bring the metaphors in our everyday life to light, by showing their explicit and implicit use in different areas of our daily life. Metaphors go beyond literature and transcend to other realms such as storytelling, spoken art, government, and advertisement. Before examining the everyday life of a metaphor, it is important to present its meaning and history to best explain how it became such an important part of our speech. Aristotle was the first to provide a scholarly treatment of metaphors and gives a detailed definition of the term ‘metaphor.’ He reports that a metaphor ”consists in giving the thing a name that belongs to something else; the transference being either from genius to specie, or from species to genus, or from species to species, or on the ground analogy.” (Poetics, 1954 ed., Ch 20). In the 20th Century, the term “metaphor” has expanded its scope and it has often been used as a shorthand term to describe any similarity or...
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...The Mohawk Indians are a group of Native Americans indigenous to what is now New York, the Mohawks Is one of many of the remaining native tribes in the United States. The Mohawks are a farming culture known for their great battle skills and the organization of their political groups. The tribe gained their name which means “man eaters” from tribal enemies and Europeans . The tribe is a part of the original Iroquois Indian league were they shared the same culture and language. The Mohawks are notable for their longhouse dwellings, excellent craftsmanship, tribal music and storytelling (which is still a vital part of tribal life today). The Mohawk Indians are a group of Native Americans indigenous to what is now New York, the Mohawks Is one of many of the remaining native tribes in the United States. The Mohawks are a farming culture known for their great battle skills and the organization of their political groups. The tribe gained their name which means “man eaters” from tribal enemies. The tribe is a part of the original Iroquois Indian league were they shared the same culture and language. The Mohawks are notable for their longhouse dwellings, excellent craftsmanship, tribal music and storytelling (which is still a vital part of tribal life today). Religion The Mohawk people had their own religion were they worshiped the creator and the belief that all living things had a spirit which they honored and protected , the Mohawk people had ceremonial...
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...Storytelling at its Best Caitlin Lawrence ENG-114-90 Storytelling is at the centre of human experience. It is a compelling form of communication, a way to interact with each other. Storytelling is as ancient as humankind, it predates the written word and even the spoken word! Through stories we let people know what is important to us: our struggles and our life lessons, our beliefs, our values, our traditions, our hopes and our dreams. Telling stories is a way to honour our past, describe our present and shape our future. The Storytelling in Organizations bring narrative insights into the contemporary business scene by documenting and promoting the constructive role and widespread importance of storytelling in corporate, non-profit, small business, education, and other settings. Further, by clarifying the dynamic, integral relationship between narrative and organizational development, advances the role of storytellers as workplace consultants. Organizational stories provide an effective way to convey fundamental understandings necessary to workplace design and culture. The specific kind of knowledge that stories communicate is crucial. While information can be said to be the lifeblood of every organization, information alone is never enough. Crucial to success are stories that speak to the heart of why information matters. Stories supply facts with meaning, and value propositions with illustrations; they testify to core beliefs and kindle aspirations that motivate and...
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...Company Values and Culture Walt Disney Company’s (here on in denoted with WDC) espoused values are as follows; innovation, quality, community, storytelling, optimist, and decency. While very broad subjects, they continue to define them within their website (http://disneycareers.com/en/working-here/culture-diversity/). Innovation to the WDC means a constant desire to change and update new technology to stay ahead of the curve. Quality standards are set to the highest possible bar, ensuring a lasting product, whether it be a movie, theme park, or show. They cultivate an extensive community of employees, executives, and customers through positive ideas and a focus on “entertainment experience for all generations to share” (http://disneycareers.com/en/working-here/culture-diversity/). They are committed to creating stories that are not only timeless, but inspiring as well. They demand an uplifting attitude focused on their trademarked happy endings. Finally, decency is expected not only from how they treat and are treated by their employees, but also in how their products come along. These espoused values are well translated into their enacted values. They have created their own city, Celebration, Florida, based on these principles and created the first privately zoned and maintained city (Stringham, Miller, & Clark 2010). This city follows their values of innovation, quality, community, optimism, and decency without fail. As to how it plays into their storytelling mission, further...
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...Art and storytelling go hand in hand in many cultures. The art ancient Egyptians, early Christian’s and the Muslims were designed to help tell the viewers a story about what that culture found important. There are similarities which connect these three distinct cultures’ works of art, but each’s specific iconography directed and distinguished the art to their own culture, and thus reflects the storytelling needs of each culture. An example of ancient Egyptian art is The Funerary Stele of Amenemhat, c.2000 BCE is an 11”x15” piece of painted limestone housed in the Cairo Museum. The background is painted gray. Across the top of the Stele, between two incised horizontal lines, are engraved hieroglyphics inviting food offerings for the deceased. The names of Amenemhat, his wife Iyi, son Antef and daughter Hapy are also etched into the limestone just beneath the line that separates the hieroglyphics from the carving itself. Shown on the left side of the Stele, Amenemhat, Iyi and Antef are seen sitting atop a white padded, black lion-legged bench. Antef sits between his mother and father, facing and embracing his father, while his mother is embracing him. Under the bench is a light tan basket holding a black instrument. At the right of the Stele is Hapy. Her right hand is on her chest while her left arm is at her side. Between Amenemhat, Iyi, Antef and Hapy is a white table zigzagged with black lines that holds enormous food offerings. The creator of the Stele must...
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...M.A. Digital Culture and Technology Digital Effect Dissertation Proposal Introduction The aim of this dissertation is to question the nature of digital cinema and its relationship to analogue filmmaking. I would like to argue that “pure” digital or analogue cinema does not exist anymore. Even films which are shot and edited using digital technology, in most cases, eventually will be printed onto film in order to be projected. I am interested in the transformation of storytelling and narration caused by digital revolution. I will analyse the shift that occurred in cinema after 1997, when the video techniques became more popular. I would like to avoid simplifying or dismissive statements about the aesthetics developed by digital techniques. It is a very rare occurrence for a film to be entirely analogue or digital. Therefore, I intend to talk about the intersection of digital and analogue techniques and the effect that digital practices have upon the tradition of storytelling. In their analysis of new media, Anna Everett and John T. Caldwell describe this intersection of analogue and digital with a term “digitextuality”. This fusion of “digital” and “intertextuality” illustrates the process in which old media acquire new shape and form: M.A. Digital Culture and Technology New digital media technologies make meaning not only by building a new text through absorption and transformation of other texts, but also by embedding the entirety of other texts (analogue and digital)...
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...One's identity is the makeup of their culture, by transforming them into the person that he or she will be. Culture goes far back in time, since the beginning of mankind. Which is what separates us from animals. Since culture is the shared beliefs that a community has. The customs, values and morals that are implemented through generations. Without even thinking it, one tends to place their culture on their offspring or whoever will listen. In Leslie Silko's article Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective, she starts off by saying that a story is never ending. Every word within the story has its own story, as to why it came to have that connotation. Then there is Sandra Ciseneros's article Only Daughter, about a woman raised in a house with six of her brothers. Whom her father saw her as just a daughter and not someone that would achieve greatness. Lastly Mark Behrs article Boy discusses the generalization of being a man in a mans' world. The culture in Silko's, Cisneros's and Behr's article is unraveled through the setting, plot, and theme....
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...December, 2002 - 12:00 This article is about the British Council's Young Learners Centre in Paris and how they use children's literature in their teaching of English * The role of stories and storytelling in language teaching * Selecting story books * Pupil responses * Personal and professional development of teachers * Other support materials * Books referred to in this article The role of stories and storytelling in language teaching Once upon a time and not so very long ago in the capital city of France, a teaching centre for little children and not so little children was opened. One little child and then two and then three and then many, many more came along. And so our story unfolds ….. There was a little red hen, a meerkat in trouble, a brown bear, a black elephant and a white elephant, a very hungry caterpillar, Spot the dog, a clever tortoise, a big, roaring, yellow, whiskery lion, a kangaroo from Woolloomooloo and many more. These are just some of the colourful characters from children's literature who have helped children aged 5 - 10 attending holiday classes at the British Council's Young Learners Centre in Paris learn English. These weekly courses take place each afternoon for two hours. The educational value of using stories and the technique of storytelling has always been undisputed throughout the world. Now more and more English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers of young learners are using carefully selected stories from the world of children's...
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...matter how clean our clothes are… how tidy we keep our house… how hard we work… we are black and we are here, and that will never change”. By listing socio-economic factors - hygiene, housing and work- she demonstrates the unfairness of stereotypes society places on Aboriginal people. She then uses the collective noun “we” and high modality as she says “we are black … and that will never change”. This rejects the stereotype and affirms the importance of Aboriginal identity, for all Aboriginal people. Although historically Aboriginal people would pass down their stories orally, in this modern world, literature (in this case a play), is now used as a more permanent way of ensuring that the story is told. In Aboriginal Australian culture, storytelling is a key cultural practice that allows for the remembrance of history,...
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...Before stories and other works of literature were written down, a multitude of cultures and societies told these stories orally usually to teach a lesson or how to live in those ancient societies. This idea of storytelling dates back all the way to Mesopotamia with the epic poem Gilgamesh which has been created into written literature in recent history. The ancient Greeks are not an exception to this way of storytelling since many of their stories are used to teach about the important virtues of ancient Greek culture, such as hospitality. When discussing ancient Greek literature, the Odyssey by the legendary author Homer is known as one of the greatest works of that culture as it is still being read today. Utilizing the device of having multiple storytellers in his work, Homer is able to...
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...Smoke Signals: A Metaphor for Telling It has been countless years since I have watched a movie about Native Americans, and even longer since I have witnessed a decent one. Most films on the subject of the Native American people are often set in the past and are habitually on the subject of brave Indian warriors. I had never viewed a Native American motion picture filmed in a present day setting, dealing with contemporary issues until I watched Smoke Signals. In the movie Smoke Signals, co-producer and scriptwriter Sherman Alexie uses unexpected humor, numerous significant flashbacks, and modernized Native American storytelling traditions to best narrate his story and the historical plight of Native Americans. First of all, Alexie employs wit by mocking stereotypical reservation life, the frequently biased film industry, and even his own people, the Native Americans. From the opening scene as tribal meteorologist and traffic reporter Lester Falls Apart covers his seemingly uneventful daily traffic report, as he has for the last twenty-six years, from the rooftop of his broken down KREZ van, we are introduced to the odd and amusing way of life on the “rez.” In another scene, Victor and Thomas are embarking on their solemn journey and are offered a ride by Thelma and Lucy driving down the road in reverse; again, it is suggested that they exist in a somewhat backwards nation. In addition, Alexie is quick to taunt the movie industry by belittling white cowboy heroes; he even...
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...long before written literature in the ways of storytelling, poems and song. * We think good story telling is neatly organized and original. Clichés are a make of bad writing. * But per literature societies tend to love stock phrase, tradition sayings and proverbs. Helped them to remember the story. * Per literature societies didn’t have an author instead they have poets, singers and storytellers to echo old tales. * Of course most oral stories were lost due to not having been written down or recoded in some fashion there for can’t be collected in any anthology records. * As one can expert written literature didn’t take hold all at ones, it was used for inventory, commercial, admin., political and legal form mostly at first. * Plato s Phaedrus gives us some induction of Athenians enormous cultural change with the invention of writing. * By the time of early Roman Empire poets started to emulate oral literature. * Mesopotamia was where writing was first developed around 3300 to 2990 b.c.e. * Writings at this time where done with clay tablets left in the sun to dry. Pictographic used list livestock, food etc * By 2800 b.c.e began to use wedged -shape end sticks to make marks rather than shape ended sticks to draw pictographic. * Known as cuneiform from the Latin word cuneus meaning wedge. * By 2500 b.c.e cuneiform was started being used the record historical events. And then storytelling. * The writing system invented by the Egyptians...
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