Translating orality, recreating otherness

Recreating ancestral proteins.

Tracing the history of molecular changes using phylogenetic methods can provide powerful insights into how and why molecules work the way they do. It is now possible to recreate inferred ancestral proteins in the laboratory and study the function of these molecules. This provides a unique opportunity to study the paths and the mechanisms of functional change during molecular evolution. What ins...

Thinking, Recognition and Otherness

There was her body, quiet, used, resting: there was her mind, free, clear, shining: there was the boy and his eyes, seeing what? And ecstasy. Things would hurt when this light dimmed. The boy would change. But now in the sun she recognised him, and recognised that she did not know, and had never seen him, and loved him, in the bright new air with a simplicity she had never expected to know. “Yo...

"orality in Literacy": Listening to Indigenous Writing

Resume One of the characteristics of Indigenous writing around the world may be the use of oral features as deliberate techniques in literary production. The author considers the work of Patricia Grace (of New Zealand), Sally Morgan (Australia) and Marie Annharte Baker (from Canada) in these terms. Une des caractéristiques des oeuvres indigènes autour du monde peut être l'usage des traits oraux...

Primary Orality in the Archaeological Context

The American sociologist Carl Couch titled his 1989 paper with a critical question which deserves far more attention than it has to date received. He asked: ‘Oral technologies: a cornerstone of ancient civilizations?’ (1989). Couch went on to write that ‘[i]f only a limited amount of information is available, a highly differentiated society cannot emerge nor be sustained’ (1989, p. 588). In a l...

Recreating Secure Spaces