ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Bes, Christian Contemplation, Cultural Appropriation
14 Aug 2020
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Lakota view: the earth and everything on it are bound together. A plurality of hoops (all holy, sacred, to be respected) Be"s practices of knowledge centered around trying to learn how to seek, how to diagnose and heal. Not just for the lakota culture, but for many. And conflicts are also many and varied; within nature and man-made. When be"s own people have turned against their people: A fellow native american traitor (siding with the whites) is fat with food, while they are starving. He wonders how you can prosper from doing bad things. But be later finds hope/his calling, performs his first cure. Be criticises how the housing of the whites is always square, rather than circular. Be lost sight of his big vision, instead focusing on the small ones: He"s living in squares rather than the sacred hoops. In this setting, he is no longer experiencing other creatures who are sharing their religion.
