Indigenous Geography Workshop demonstrates tool (fwd link)

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*Indigenous Geography Workshop demonstrates tool*
August 14, 2013

An Indigenous Geography Workshop, led by Douglas Herman will be held from 1
to 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 16,  in the Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno
Library. Herman, a senior geographer at the Smithsonian Institution’s
National Museum of the American Indian, will introduce participants to a
novel grid he developed to document, through the voices of local residents,
the important elements of life in an indigenous community. He created the
grid during his research in the Pacific, described at www.pacificworlds.com,
and he has used it with classes he teaches at Towson University. In the
workshop, Herman will illustrate how the indigenous geographic technique
can be employed to compare and contrast communities in different regions of
the world.

The workshop is free and open to the public, but advanced registration at
icik.psu.edu/psul/icik/indigenousgeography.html is required to ensure
seating. It is co-sponsored by Penn State’s ICIK (the Interinstitutional
Consortium on Indigenous Knowledge), University Libraries and the
Department of Geography and the Smithsonian Institution.

Access full article below:
http://news.psu.edu/story/284222/2013/08/14/research/indigenous-geography-workshop-demonstrates-tool
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