Elizabeth Rahman
Biographic Data
| ID | 887033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Rahman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Rahman |
| SIGNATURE | RAHMAN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5541-6976 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pedagogy and Indigenous knowing and learning
In 2021, UNESCO released their report on 'Reimagining our Futures Together: the New Social Contract for Education'.They opened the report by boldly stating:our world is at a turning point [. ..] but global disparities -and a pressing need to reimagine why, how, what, where and when we learn -mean that education is not yet fulfilling its promise to help us shape peaceful, just, and sustainable futures (UNESCO, 2021, p. 1).As we face a world in pol…
Formabiap’s Indigenous educative community, Peru
This article provides a descriptive account of the workings of an Indigenous-led teacher training initiative in the Peruvian Amazon (Formabiap) and considers the extent of its transdisciplinary pedagogic approach, with a special focus on the ontological and epistemological stakes of intercultural knowledge exchanges in the context of contemporary global challenges. The article evaluates the extent to which Indigenous pedagogical projects can sust…
Chapter 7 Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern Amazonia
A Walk to the River in Amazonia
Breathing Song and Smoke
In lowland South America, breath animates human and non-human bodies, pulsating through the materialities of organisms. Humans, however, should manage their bodies to recast and reconfigure breath in its most life-enhancing manifestations: singing and smoking. These are the specialized domains of those able to manage their vitalities in such a way as to produce potent effects in themselves and in the world around them, including influencing atmos…
Chapter 7 Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern Amazonia
T his chapter is about the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians, known as the Warekena, who live along the minor tributary of the Rio Xié in northwestern Brazil.The chapter discusses their perspectives on raising infants, and reflects on change and continuity in how they care for babies.The material presented here is based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Brazilian municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (b…
Infant feeding
A People of Stories in the Forest of Myth
Schackt, John (2014) A People of Stories in the Forest of Myth: The Yukuna of Miritiparana, The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Novus Press ( Oslo) + 271 pp. $43.53 hbk. The Yukuna of Miritiparaná, and the place of myth in their long-house (maloca) society, forms the focus of this monograph. History, legend and myth interweave to comment on kinship processes in-the-making and Schackt details how the maloca complex facilitates…
Weaning and the rendering of substances nourishing
Hydrocentric Infants and their Alchemic Sedimentation
Breathing Song and Smoke
In lowland South America, breath animates human and non-human bodies, pulsating through the materialities of organisms. Humans, however, should manage their bodies to recast and reconfigure breath in its most life-enhancing manifestations: singing and smoking. These are the specialized domains of those able to manage their vitalities in such a way as to produce potent effects in themselves and in the world around them, including influencing atmos…
Weaning and the rendering of substances nourishing
Hydrocentric Infants and their Alchemic Sedimentation
Chapter 7 Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern Amazonia
T his chapter is about the perinatal practices of a small group of Amazonian Indians, known as the Warekena, who live along the minor tributary of the Rio Xié in northwestern Brazil.The chapter discusses their perspectives on raising infants, and reflects on change and continuity in how they care for babies.The material presented here is based on fifteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Brazilian municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (b…
Infant feeding
A People of Stories in the Forest of Myth
Schackt, John (2014) A People of Stories in the Forest of Myth: The Yukuna of Miritiparana, The Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture, Novus Press ( Oslo) + 271 pp. $43.53 hbk. The Yukuna of Miritiparaná, and the place of myth in their long-house (maloca) society, forms the focus of this monograph. History, legend and myth interweave to comment on kinship processes in-the-making and Schackt details how the maloca complex facilitates…
Weaning and the rendering of substances nourishing
Breathing Song and Smoke
In lowland South America, breath animates human and non-human bodies, pulsating through the materialities of organisms. Humans, however, should manage their bodies to recast and reconfigure breath in its most life-enhancing manifestations: singing and smoking. These are the specialized domains of those able to manage their vitalities in such a way as to produce potent effects in themselves and in the world around them, including influencing atmos…
A Walk to the River in Amazonia
Chapter 7 Intergenerational Mythscapes and Infant Care in Northwestern Amazonia
Pedagogy and Indigenous knowing and learning
In 2021, UNESCO released their report on 'Reimagining our Futures Together: the New Social Contract for Education'.They opened the report by boldly stating:our world is at a turning point [. ..] but global disparities -and a pressing need to reimagine why, how, what, where and when we learn -mean that education is not yet fulfilling its promise to help us shape peaceful, just, and sustainable futures (UNESCO, 2021, p. 1).As we face a world in pol…
Formabiap’s Indigenous educative community, Peru
This article provides a descriptive account of the workings of an Indigenous-led teacher training initiative in the Peruvian Amazon (Formabiap) and considers the extent of its transdisciplinary pedagogic approach, with a special focus on the ontological and epistemological stakes of intercultural knowledge exchanges in the context of contemporary global challenges. The article evaluates the extent to which Indigenous pedagogical projects can sust…
Ecology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Amazon rainforest (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Indigenous (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)