Arts of the Contact Zone For the twelfth grade English curriculum‚ we had to read and learn about the Arts of the Contact Zone by Mary Louise Pratt. This essay opened up a whole new concept for us. The new term "contact zone" appeared and Pratt defined it as "social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power‚ such as colonialism‚ slavery‚ or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today
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Contact Zones Within Collegiate Sports The definition of sports is physical activity that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often engaged in competitively. However to fully understand sports‚ especially collegiate sports‚ you must acknowledge the existence of contact zones. Contact zone is a term used to "refer to social spaces (teams) where cultures (players and coaches) meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in the contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power (coaches
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Isaiah Graham Farmer ENG 11-940 9/13/2013 A Summary of David Abram’s Animism and the Alphabet David Abram’s selection‚ “Animism and the Alphabet” conveys that human’s disconnection from the natural world is partially at fault with the alphabet‚ it also asserts that alphabet originates from the natural world. Abrams supports his ideas by mentioning several great thinkers throughout history including Plato‚ Socrates and others. Abram’s also compares modern ways to the customs of indigenous
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of nature and the ethnocentrism has positioned human beings above all other things. Nature has become resources for people and nothing more than that. David Abram‚ the author of the Ecology of magic‚ travels into the wild‚ traditional land in search of the relation between magic and nature; the meaning nature holds in the traditional cultures. Abram intends to communicate his realization of the magical awareness of the countless nonhuman entities and the necessity of the balance between the human
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The term “animism” is defined as the belief of a life-force existing within non-human forms. In other words‚ according the this idea‚ non-human forms such as thunder‚ rocks and trees are possessed by spirits and souls. The term‚ first developed as “animismus” by chemist/physicist Georg Ernst Stahl in 1832‚ defined as the “doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul”‚ was reintroduced in 1871 by English anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Taylor to be defined as the “theory of the
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To me‚ Pratt introduces autoethnography as a genre of resistance. Autoethnography presents a culture from the perspective of the culture as opposed to the traditional ethnographies where a member of a different culture (typically a dominant culture) immerses himself/herself in the studied culture to present a representation of that culture. Pratt’s essay explained fully what the contact zone was as she stated it was “ social spaces where cultures meet
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most importantly form relationships with the people‚animals‚and natural settings around them. However David Abram in Chapter 4 “ Animism and the Alphabet” from his novel The Spell of the Sensuous ‚ brings our attention to the idea that literacy and the process of becoming a species that depends on the written word to communicate has pushed us into the environmental crisis which we encounter today. Abram begins his discussion with a reflection of cultures who used orality as a means of communication and
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Annotation on David Abram David Abram wrote an essay Animism and the Alphabet‚ which is about how alphabets have affected human society. He talks about how alphabets have worked as a differentiation between human and nature. Socrates and Plato are used as his supporting points. I made annotations as I read this piece‚ and there are two lines that captured my interest. They are annotations on “ Without writing‚ knowledge of the diverse properties of particular animals‚ plants and places can be preserved
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A contact zone is defined as “social spaces where cultures meet‚ clash‚ and grapple with each other‚ often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power‚ such as colonialism‚ slavery‚ or their aftermaths as they are lived out in many parts of the world today.”(Pratt) The definition makes it sound like a very advanced concept but in actuality it happens in everyday life. You come in contact with something new everyday‚ from meeting someone to accidently grabbing barbeque sauce when you always
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Annotation’s made from David Abram Animism and the Alphabet In Animism and the Alphabet‚ David Abram‚ founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics‚ goes in depth about how writing and the alphabet developed over the years by various groups of people. After annotating the text‚ I was able to consider the arguments presented by David Abram and found myself questioning many of his viewpoints. As I was reading my annotations‚ one that jumped out at me was when I wrote “may not be “true”
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