Indigenous Tradition
Indigenous tradition
In the past people have mistaken about their tradition
Indigenous originality or occurring naturally (country, region etc)
To be indigenous kinship (relation to one another) and location(connection of particular place)
Indigenous religion beliefs, experience and practices concerning non-falsifiable realities of people who have kinship and location
Syncretism:
Syncretism merging of elements from different religions.
Eg : north American tradition have been influenced by Christianity, some African rituals are influences by Islam. * Change occurs everywhere * Traditions are less authentic (accurate) than thousands year ago
Indigenous can be found anywhere: * Anishinaubae: drumming ceremony in Toronto * Yoruba: Funeral rites in London * Maori: Purification ritual in opera house Sydney Australia
Misconceptions
* Common to Indigenous traditions is colonialism * Oglala (Indigenous community) –> a theorist explained them as “warriors without weapons basically they were incapable to adapting a new economy lifestyle they focused on how to make them “modern Indians” * Outsider lack insider knowledge * Scholars often used terms such as fetish, myth, mana, taboo to explain Indigenous traditions. * Eg “ Indigenous stories are called myth where the bible is considered to be true.
Primitive
Cultures that are unchanged from the beginning primitive
Christians, who believed in god and their tradition, had superiority and began to spread their religion to who didn’t know about gospel
Indigenous traditions are tend to think more primitive -- Due to non-literate * But writing to not better than oral speaking * Mayan did use writing * Most Indigenous people are very literate
Indigenous tradition are tend to think more primitive – consider everything to be sacred (untrue) * Eg : Navajo : ceremony that transforms normal house into a scared place. So
In the past people have mistaken about their tradition
Indigenous originality or occurring naturally (country, region etc)
To be indigenous kinship (relation to one another) and location(connection of particular place)
Indigenous religion beliefs, experience and practices concerning non-falsifiable realities of people who have kinship and location
Syncretism:
Syncretism merging of elements from different religions.
Eg : north American tradition have been influenced by Christianity, some African rituals are influences by Islam. * Change occurs everywhere * Traditions are less authentic (accurate) than thousands year ago
Indigenous can be found anywhere: * Anishinaubae: drumming ceremony in Toronto * Yoruba: Funeral rites in London * Maori: Purification ritual in opera house Sydney Australia
Misconceptions
* Common to Indigenous traditions is colonialism * Oglala (Indigenous community) –> a theorist explained them as “warriors without weapons basically they were incapable to adapting a new economy lifestyle they focused on how to make them “modern Indians” * Outsider lack insider knowledge * Scholars often used terms such as fetish, myth, mana, taboo to explain Indigenous traditions. * Eg “ Indigenous stories are called myth where the bible is considered to be true.
Primitive
Cultures that are unchanged from the beginning primitive
Christians, who believed in god and their tradition, had superiority and began to spread their religion to who didn’t know about gospel
Indigenous traditions are tend to think more primitive -- Due to non-literate * But writing to not better than oral speaking * Mayan did use writing * Most Indigenous people are very literate
Indigenous tradition are tend to think more primitive – consider everything to be sacred (untrue) * Eg : Navajo : ceremony that transforms normal house into a scared place. So