After last week’s windup on the poet and visual artist David Jones and musician Van Morrison, I ran out of the paltry column inches I’m allotted each week in this fish wrap. Trust me, there’s more – so much more – to write on both topics, but I’ll wrap it up now with Jones’ view of the Church as an archive of all that was important to Western civilization and artists/craftsmen as archivists.
Fascinated early on with a local healing ritual called “pagbawi” (literally “to get back” or “to recover”), I have, through the years, never stopped trying to understand the process. When I began looking at the practice (which I would pluralize later), the actors in the rituals were the “encantos,” the…
The trend of doctoral scholars and researchers in Western universities hiring poorly paid Indians for fieldwork reinforces gatekeeping in knowledge production.
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