Category Archives: science

Pluralism and Politics

Posted on November 3, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

As I write today’s blog the state of Oregon is still counting ballots for the governor’s race and the candidates are running neck-and-neck in the metaphorical horse race.

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Making Meaning

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

I want to return to meaning-making and, again, thank you for letting me think out loud.

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Thinking Out Loud

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

I hope you’ll bear with me as I struggle over the application of my work and think out loud.

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Crystallizing My Work

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

Several friends have commented about my blog, sometimes surprised about my interest in Native issues. Some folks know me only for my work in Native science, while others know only of my teaching in communication. Behind the scenes, these currents … 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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Imagining the Construct

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Bloodletting as Metaphor As a sophomore in college I was introduced to George Herbert Mead and felt inspired by the notion that we create a social self that we present to the social world, and that the social self is … Continue reading →

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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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