"Researching/Rethinking
Folklore,
Communication, and Kannagi in
Tamil Nadu"
An
Interactive Talk by
on
6th May
2022
AD (Anno Domini, In the Year of Our Lord) /
61
AS (After Space) (Please see below).
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Researching/Rethinking
1)
Kannagi.
2)
Folklore.
3)
The Multi-disciplinary approach to research.
4)
The Folk.
5)
Fieldwork.
6)
Communication.
7)
Community.
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"Silappathikaram Teaches
Respect for Human Rights:
US Scholar", The
Hindu, 10 Dec 1988.
Dr
Eric's "signature" essay on his "signature"
topic is
"In
Praise of Citizen Kannagi", The Hindu, 16 June 2006.
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The
Places of Kannagi Tour:
The
Places of Kannagi Tour:
Video (21
minutes, 2010),
"The Chapter of Seeing the
Countryside".
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Multi-disciplinary
-- Kani story, "The Youngest Brother".
Medicinal
plants. Separating reality into academic
disciplines
is artificial.
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PhD
dissertation,
"Ethnographic
Videoconferencing,
as Applied to
Songs/Chants/Dances/Games
of South Indian
Children, and Language Learning".
1)
The songs/chants/dances/verbal-games
as played in the home village.
2)
The end-of-fieldwork videoconferences.
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What
will be kept as prominent (easily accesible)
parts
of the human legacy?
To
the best of my knowledge, the one and only
place
the mentioned story of Isakki can be found
on
the Internet is in my essay,
"Variations
in and of the Story of the
Silappathikaram
(the Epic of the Anklet)".
To
the best of my knowledge, the one and only
place
the Kani story of "The Youngest Brother"
can
be found on the Internet is in my essay,
"The Value of the
Multi-Discipline Approach to
Research".
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The recent space-flights facilitated by
1) Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin [New Shepherd, rocket name], July
2021).
2) Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic, July 2021).
3) Elon Musk (SpaceX, August 2021).
are parts of the beginning
of the actualization
of the inhabitation of space.
Humans have been imagining
the inhabitation of
space increasingly over
the past 100 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_stations_and_habitats_in_fiction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_space_stations
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We are now in 2022 AD ("Anno Domini", "In the
Year of Our Lord") --
or, as I like to call it, 61 AS.
"AS" means "After Space".
Proposal: Historical time could be dated from the moment
a human first escaped the pull of the earth's gravity.
That is, time could be dated with reference to
"Before Space" was reached, and "After
Space"
was reached.
A human first entered outer space 61 years ago, in 1961.
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (1934 - 1968) was a Soviet pilot
and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into
outer space. Traveling in
the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin
completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_spaceflight
Since space was first reached in 1961, that would be
the Year 0 (zero) in Space time. 1962 was year 1 AS
(After Space was reached).
2022 is year 61 AS.
A human entering outer space in 1961. This was the
first baby step.
The "international space station" is another baby step
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station
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Young people today are at home in
a "seamlessly-integrated digital eco-system".
Many are achieving "Digital Multimedia Literacy",
in addition to "Reading and Writing Literacy".
They will be better off if they know how to create
multimedia processes, as well as experience
multimedia processes created by others.
Five Ways Teachers Could Work with Educational Technology are
A) Developing teaching-and-learning materials.
B) Sharing teaching-and-learning materials with
students.
C) Assisting students to use the technology.
D) Managing class sessions.
E) Record-keeping regarding students.
"Tamil Nadu set to become Apple products
manufacturing hub".
Including in Mahindra World
City, Chenglepet District.
The Times of India, 30 Jan 2021.
Last updated: 5th May 2022ad/61as
Please send feedback to
eric@storytellinginstitute.org
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