Wounaan Storying as Intervention: Storywork in the Crafting of a Multimodal Illustrated Story Book on People and Birds

Genealogy

Julie Velásquez Runk¹  Frankie Grin²  Chenier Carpio Opua³  Chindío Peña Ismare³  Dorindo Membora Peña³  Rito Ismare Peña³  Doris Cheucarama Membache³ 

[1] Department of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA;Independent Researcher, Atlanta, GA 30032, USA;Wounaan Podpa Nʌm Pömaa, Panama City, Panama;

关键词: Wounaan;    Indigenous;    conviviality;    egalitarianism;    movement;    temporality;   

DOI  :  10.3390/genealogy5040091

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A growing body of scholarship addresses what Indigenous peoples have always known: stories are critically important to who we are and how to be in the world. For Wounaan, an Indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, ancestors’ stories are no longer frequently told. As part of the Wounaan Podpa Nʌm Pömaam (National Wounaan Congress) and Foundation for the Development of Wounaan People’s project on bird guiding, birds and culture, and forest restoration in Panama, we leveraged the publication requirement as political intervention and anticolonial practice in storying worlds. This article is the story of our storying, the telling and crafting of an illustrated story book that honors Wounaan convivial lifeworlds, Wounaan chaain döhigaau nemchaain hoo wënʌʌrrajim/Los niños wounaan, en sus aventuras vieron muchas aves/The Adventures of Wounaan Children and Many Birds. Here, we have used video conference minutes and recordings, voice and text messages, emails, recollections, and a conference co-presentation to show stories as Indigenous method and reality, as epistemological and ontological. We use a narrative form to weave together our collaborative process and polish the many storying decisions on relationality, time, egalitarianism, movement, rivers, embodiment, and verbal poetics through an everyday adventure of siblings and birds. Available as a multimodal illustrated story book in digital audio and print, we conclude by advocating for new media to further storying Indigenous lifeworlds.

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