ethnoautobiography (...trans/formation ongoing...)
Table of contents
List of Riffs
List of Activities
List of Figures and Tables
List of Illustrations
Special Thanks
Ethnoautobiography: A Map to Decolonization and Indigenization
by Leny Mendoza Strobel
The Ceremonial Stepping–Stones of Ethnoautobiography
by Apela Colorado
Truth Makes Us, But First We Have to Free Truth
by Stanley Krippner
Preface by Jürgen Werner Kremer & R Jackson–Paton
Chapter 0 Let’s Have a Conversation
Chapter 1 Who Am I?
Chapter 2 The Self – Now Larger, Now Smaller
Chapter 3 Why Not Simply ‘Autobiography’?
Chapter 4 Ethnoautobiography Defined
Chapter 5 We Are Moral Beings
Chapter 6 Community and Communitas
Chapter 7 Where Am I? Ethnoautobiography as Gateway to Place
Chapter 8 Connecting Nature, Self and History
Chapter 9 History – Memory and Imagination
Chapter 10 Mythic Stories
Chapter 11 Who Are My Ancestors?
Chapter 12 En/gendering Embodied Ethnoautobiography
Chapter 13 Gathering Ourselves Through Dreams
Chapter 14 Faith, Spirituality, Skepticism
Chapter 15 To Tell a Story…
Chapter 16 Healing Ourselves – Healing Others
Chapter 17 Continuing the Conversation
Appendix: Ethnoautobiography as Research Methodology
Glossary
References
Index
List of riffs
Chapter 0 So You Really Want to Know Who I Am?
Boundaries
Chapter 1 No Longer a Teen
Chapter 2 Circles
Chapter 3 I Am a White Man
Chapter 4 The Old Ones Would Say
Feeling Lucky
Chapter 5 Nazis in the Closet
From the Desert Into the City
Chapter 6 Looking for Cynthia Ann Parker
The Soul and People of the Arabic Desert
Chapter 7 Coaquannok — The Place of the Long Trees
Millennial Twins
Chapter 8 Timbisha Transformations
Chapter 9 To Sand Creek
Chapter 10 Mythic Tricksters at Play
Chapter 11 Ancestral Imaginings
Chapter 12 Of Boy Scouts, Sexual Abuse, and Settler Identity
The Lessons of Staff Sargent Harley
Chapter 13 Movement Passing Through
Chapter 14 Balancing Rigor and Openness
Indigenous … Science
Chapter 15 Homecoming
Chapter 16 The Unbearable Rightness of Being
Chapter 17 Bardic Resolutions
Appendix Finding our Way
List of activities
Chapter 0 Let’s Have a Conversation
Reflecting on an Issue
Chapter 1 Who Am I?
Self Introduction
Chapter 2 The Self — Now Larger, Now Smaller
- Overview of a Contemporary Indigenous People
- Mapping Your Self
Chapter 3 Why Not Simply ‘Autobiography’?
- Create an Ancestral Altar or Collage
- Visualizing Settlement
Chapter 4 Ethnoautobiography Defined
- Accepting Origins
- Elements of Your Ethnoautobiography
Chapter 5 We Are Moral Beings
- Transformative Learning Experience
- Moral Dilemma
Chapter 6 Community and Communitas
Community Mapping
Chapter 7 Where am I? Ethnoautobiography as Gateway to Place
A Place in Time
Chapter 8 Connecting Nature, Self and History.
- Ecological Research
- Local Nature
Chapter 9 History — Memory and Imagination
Making Pilgrimages
Chapter 10 Mythic Stories
Recreating a Creation Myth
Chapter 11 Who are My Ancestors?
- Family Pictures
- Mapping Ancestry
Chapter 12 En/gendering Embodied Ethnoautobiography
- Gender Collage
- Embodying Personal Identity
Chapter 13 Gathering Ourselves Through Dreams
Working with a Dream
Chapter 14 Faith, Spirituality, Skepticism
The Meaning of Life
Chapter 15 To Tell a Story …
Acting out Your Story
Chapter 16 Healing Ourselves — Healing Others
Council of all Ancestors