Weaving Nihok’aa Diyin Traditional Knowledge Systems with …
2024年4月17日 · Weaving is a traditional Navajo art-form, so we developed an activity for visually articulating the progression of life on earth using Navajo wool yarn. Through the study of astrobiology, NASA invests in understanding the origins, evolution, and distribution of life on earth, so this topic resonated with NNN collaborators.
Nature the Navajo Way - New Mexico Magazine
2020年5月4日 · The 54-year-old botanist and geologist focuses on documenting everything he finds using his traditional Navajo understanding of nature and science, along with Western scientific methods. By weaving the two together—literally in English and the Diné language—he constructs a fuller story of this vast land, which he hopes will change the ...
Ecologies of Making: Knowledge and Process in Navajo Weaving
2024年4月25日 · Placing Indigenous aesthetics and ways of knowing at the center of Diné (Navajo) textile production, it highlights the localized and land-based knowledge systems that guide the process behind the finished product.
Navajo Art: Ancient to Modern Techniques - Invaluable
2018年8月29日 · From rock carving to turquoise and silver jewelry, discover 8 types of Navajo art, key symbols used, and factors that determine value in this diverse field.
Language And Art In The Navajo Universe - eHRAF World Cultures
Art examples, represented by music, sand painting, and weaving, are used to demonstrate how these complex semantic and cosmological considerations find their way into Navajo daily ritual life. Information is also included on color classification, numerology, mythology, ethnophysocology, and taxonomies.
Integrating traditional and academic knowledge
2024年10月29日 · Dr. Franklin Sage, Navajo Technical University Graduate Assistant Professor of Dine' Studies, presents his dissertation at "Beyond Western Approaches: Recognizing Indigenous Traditions in Engineering" at the Science and Engineering Complex (Matt Goisman/SEAS)
Indigenous Imagination as Revolution: ‘Shaped by the Loom’ …
2023年4月11日 · Showcasing pieces by contemporary Diné artists alongside rarely exhibited historic Navajo textiles, Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest (figure 1), explores the materials, processes, traditions, and cosmologies that nurture Navajo weaving. Open at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery until July 9, 2023, the exhibit was ...
Navajo Archaeology | The Oxford Handbook of Southwest
2017年9月6日 · The anthropological and archaeological concept “Navajo,” created through Western scholarship by non-Diné, does not align with Diné worldview or conceptions of self and history. Instead, it reaffirms Western scholarship as legitimate, while it marginalizes and brands Diné history as “alternative,” or as not really history.
Investigating culturally contextualized making with the Navajo …
2021年9月7日 · The aim of this study was to determine the Navajo people's unique understanding of making. It was guided by the following research question: “In what ways do the Navajo describe the experience of making?” Design. Qualitative data were collected in the form of semi-structured interviews given to participants who identify as being Navajo.
Cultural identity central to Native American persistence in science ...
2022年1月29日 · In a study focused on African-American HBCU college students, researchers found that science identity indirectly predicted science achievement and science self-efficacy mediated the relationships between cultural identity measures and science achievement (White, DeCuir-Gunby, and Kim 2019).