Question:
- Critically asses the practice of phenomenology in the work of Lindsay Keegitah Borrows
"Otter's Journey through Indigenous Language and Laws: Place Where the Land Narrows"
1)What were the major points that came up?
-Use of Language
-The importance of language
-Culture plays in a major way they transmit their stories (Storytelling to transmit ideas)
-The symbolism of the Otter - Metaphor as mother nature/the force in nature.
- Metaphor of ourselves looking from the outside
-appear is key points and
-The indigenous law it's based on keeping a balance with nature
-Epochal Shifts - Introduction of Residential schools, not allowing first nation people to speak their own language and learn only English trying to eliminate their language
2)Was the discussion helpful in developing or enriching your own understanding of, and response to, the question?
3)My response to the question.
- The paper is a Phenomenological method, the story its clear but not explicitly expressed.
"it is something that lies hidden. In contrast to that which proximally and for the most part foes show itself; but at the same time is something that belongs to what this shows itself, and it belongs to it so essentially as to constitute itself, and it belongs to it so essentially as to constitute its meaning and its ground." -Heidegger (being and time)
-Reasons that support position
-Clear account of the meaning of key concepts in response
-Examples that help to clarify position
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