Browsing by Subject "Indigenous peoples"

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    Difficult Heritage and the Complexities of Indigenous Data
    (McGill University, 2019-08-13) Guiliano, Jennifer; Heitman, Carolyn; History, School of Liberal Arts
    For readers of this special issue, data are likely defined in technical terms as established by information and computer scientists. Data, for the informaticist, are facts, measurements or statistics. For the historian, data are historical remnants—often preserved by an archive. For the anthropologist, data can be quantitative or qualitative depending on the question and methods. Disciplinary methods aside, data are not value-neutral and thus must be contextualized in terms of their acquisition, analysis, and interpretation in order to transform data into information. For humanists, the cultural complexities of data and information are not new. Anthropologists, historians, linguists, museum curators, and archivists have long probed the contextual subjectivities of knowledge production and representation. From ink and quill maps representing the New World to the carefully stratified layers of an archeological site, data in the humanities are always subject to the systems of knowledge that were used to capture, represent, and disseminate them.
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    The Latin American and Indigenous Peoples of the Americas funnel
    (2023-06-07) Levinson, Sara
    This is an introduction to the LAIPA (Latin American and Indigenous Peoples of the America) SACO funnel. It gives a brief overview of how and why it was formed and some of the work that the group has undertaken. It also some of the projects they are working on at the current time and hopes for the future.
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    Review: Colonial Frontier Massacres in Australia, 1788-1930
    (IUPUI School of Liberal Arts, 2022-11-28) Guiliano, Jennifer; History, School of Liberal Arts
    A review of Colonial Frontier Massacres, an interactive web map of massacres on the Australian colonial frontier, developed by Lyndall Ryan, Bill Pascoe, and team.