‘On Being Indigenous' as a Process

Dayton, Andrew; Rogoff, Barbara

doi:10.1159/000346771

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“…These are communities that originated prior to the European entry to the Americas, which follow practices that have origins that preceded the coming of the Europeans. But of course, Indigenous communities continue to change and have adopted or adapted many European (and some African and other) practices, often in identifiably Indigenous forms [Chandler, 2013;Dayton & Rogoff, 2013].…”

Section: Indigenous Practices Across Time and Placementioning

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Constellations of Cultural Practices across Generations: Indigenous American Heritage and Learning by Observing and Pitching In

2014

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This article argues that a generational approach focusing on changing constellations of cultural practices helps to understand culture. We contrast this approach with the “box approach,” which categorizes individuals by racial or ethnic ancestry. The article focuses on the survival, disappearance, and transformation of constellations of cultural practices related to Learning by Observing and Pitching In to activities of the family and community (LOPI) in Indigenous communities of the Americas, across time and place. We illustrate the importance of considering constellations of cultural practices by showing connections among schooling, urban/rural residence, occupations, Indigenous birthing and spiritual practices, and LOPI across three cultural communities in a Mexican metropolis across three generations. We argue that a constellation of practices, including the cultural tradition of Learning by Observing and Pitching In to family and community endeavors, links widespread communities with Indigenous practices of the Americas.

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Section: Indigenous Practices Across Time and Placementioning

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Constellations of Cultural Practices across Generations: Indigenous American Heritage and Learning by Observing and Pitching In

2014

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“…Although it has been argued that other types of knowledge are necessary, there is much to learn, and we as scientists can learn from we-centered or intersubjective worldviews for knowledge co-production. "The current dominant paradigm and its perspectives on culture and learning could benefit greatly from a perspective of indigenous holism and relationalism" [104] (p. 110).…”

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Yeknemilis: Social Learning and Intercultural Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Sustainable Life

2023

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Intercultural transdisciplinary research reinforces sustainable social-ecological systems in Latin America. Social learning (SL) is a crucial process within this type of research as it fosters collaboration among diverse groups of people, communities of practice, and cultures. Buen vivir (‘well living’), of the popular movements in America, promotes collective responsibility and respect for life. Yeknemilis (‘a good life’) is a value framework of the Masewal people of the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico. Members of Tosepan, an organization of the Masewal and other indigenous peoples of this region, reflected on their cultural roots, ways of life, and relations with the territory to strengthen their alternative and self-determined lifeway. Involvement in participatory research within the transdisciplinary process allowed us to focus on the learnings and conditions that foster values and strategies for yeknemilis. Through participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and participatory activities, we identified five key social learning areas that foster conditions for yeknemilis and life-sustaining relationships in intercultural transdisciplinary collaboration (ITC): collective action agenda, community capacities, intercultural transdisciplinarity, creative reflexivity, and a relational ontology horizon. Finally, we show how the collaborative construction of yeknemilis and social learning practices can be crucial in scaling up collective action toward sustainability.

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“…We have elaborated this idea that processes of learning and development can be understood holistically through analyses with different grain size. Patterns in ways of working together may occur on an ongoing basis at every scale simultaneously -societal, interpersonal, and microscales -in fractal patterns that re-occur throughout all developmental timescales (Dayton & Rogoff, 2013;Rogoff, 1990Rogoff, , 1995Rogoff, , 2003. 'The patterns found in a smaller spatial/duration scale are also the patterns found in larger spatial/ duration scales of the same phenomenon' (Dayton & Rogoff, 2016, p. 137).…”

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Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions

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2022

British J of Dev Psycho

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Using a holistic, process approach, this article brings attention to cultural differences in the prevalence of fluid synchrony in collaboration, at a microanalytic scale of analysis that is embodied in the processes of everyday life. We build on findings that in a number of Indigenous American communities, fluid and harmonious collaboration is prioritized both in community organization at a scale of years and centuries, and in everyday family interactions and researcherorganized tasks at a scale of days, hours, or minutes. We examined whether this sophisticated fluid collaboration could be seen even at a scale of fractions of seconds. At a microscale of 200-millisecond segments, Guatemalan Mayan triads of mothers and children frequently engaged mutually, in fluid synchrony together, when exploring novel objects.They did so more commonly than did European American mother-child triads, who usually engaged solo or in dyads, with one person left out, or resisted each other. This microanalysis of mutuality in family interactions reveals the role of culture in the foundations of thinking and working together in both Mayan and European American communities, and the fruitfulness of considering developmental processes holistically. K E Y W O R D Scollaboration, culture, Indigenous people of the Americas, microscale, synchronyIn a home visit interview from a US researcher, this Mayan mother was asked to help her 17-month-old toddler operate some novel objects. The sequence in the screen shots occurred 7 s after the mother was handed a clear plastic jar containing a little plastic doll, by the Mayan research assistant (at Second 0 of this episode). The mother had placed the jar on the mat in front of the toddler, as the toddler reached for it and the mother's 5-year-old son scooted near the toddler. The mother had removed the wooden lid and put it aside, between the two children. She had then reached into the jar and picked up the little doll and showed it to the toddler, who was holding the edge of the jar with one hand. We focus on the fluid synchrony that shows in the few seconds of interaction that occur at 7 s into the episode:The 5-year-old leans forward and picks up the lid by its handle, while the mother puts the little doll back down in the jar. The mother begins to lean back out of the way as the 5-year-old begins to extend the lid toward the jar. All three people are watching the action and moving their arms and torsos in tandem, coordinating their moves as they operate the jar together. By 8 s, the mother is sitting up, smiling as she leans to watch the children closely while the 5-year-old stretches to hold the lid over the jar. At 9 s, the toddler and the mother watch with interest as the 5-year-old tries to show the toddler how the lid fits on the jar. However, the toddler's fingers are still holding the edge of the jar, so lid cannot be attached. At 10 s and the following seconds, the 5-year-old puts the lid aside, as the mother smiles and gently tells him to let go of it, as the toddler watches. The 5-year-...

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‘On Being Indigenous' as a Process

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Constellations of Cultural Practices across Generations: Indigenous American Heritage and Learning by Observing and Pitching In

Constellations of Cultural Practices across Generations: Indigenous American Heritage and Learning by Observing and Pitching In

Yeknemilis: Social Learning and Intercultural Transdisciplinary Collaboration for Sustainable Life

Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions

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