Category Archives: framing

Past is Present

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Yesterday author Leslie Marmon Silko chatted to receptive crowds at the University in conversations that ranged from her writing to her painting, from the Navajo (Diné) relatives to her Pueblo grandparents, and from her rattlesnake neighbors to her hummingbird neighbors.

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Reframing Reality

Posted on October 17, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

When Truth is Hate As my class considers the construction of reality I turn to the writings on persuasion and consider rhetoric.

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Disney and the Indians

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Constructing Reality My classroom has been rife with discussions about perceptions: the pictures in our heads.

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Pictures in Our Heads

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Imagining The Other We moved to Iran when I was 10. One evening the six of us sat around the dinner table and peppered by mom and stepdad with questions about life in the Middle East. Mother had bought tubs … Continue reading →

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Fighting Tobacco Use in Indian Country

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Bring on the Campaign For many Indian tribes tobacco is sacred, so when anti-smoking campaigns hit Indian Country, strategists wisely invoked Native value systems to appeal to smoking cessation. Campaign strategists figured out many years ago that appealing to audiences … Continue reading →

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Linkage to Nature

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Moon as Metaphor Yesterday’s blog about bloodletting got me to thinking about how the Western scientific paradigm clings mightily to belief systems, making it no less ideological than any other Weltanschauung (worldview).

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Faith and science

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Buy a piece of spirituality Philosophers have long struggled with the intersection of their belief systems that embrace religion and their attachments to science. Not surprisingly most Americans say they are religious: only about 15% consider themselves atheists or agnostic, … Continue reading →

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Framing science

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Is science naked? Western science is framed as being devoid of cultural values and is, in fact, perceived as “naked.” Anthropologist Laura Nader writes that naked science is “stripped of its ideologized vestments” and I argue that Western science is … Continue reading →

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Navigating tropes

Posted on September 20, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

What informs us? Close your eyes for 30 seconds: what comes to mind when I ask you to think about American Indians and their colonizers? The word “colonizer” is loaded right up front, and you probably envision explorers—what some would … Continue reading →

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Bridging streams

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Telling stories This week I’ve been writing about the atomistic nature of Western science which I argue isn’t a bad thing: in fact it’s a useful tool for problem solving. Problem is scientists often believe this is the only problem-solving … Continue reading →

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