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"Going Over" and Coming Back: Translating Cherokee Epistemologies of Space and Sound for Language Revitalization

Sara L. Snyder, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, and Director of the Cherokee Language Program at Western Carolina University will explore Cherokee indigenous concepts of space and sound through a close analysis of the Cherokee language of the 1846 Cherokee Singing Book. She deconstructs some of the assumptions that underlie translation and demonstrates how the fragments of meaning allow us to decolonize the archival text and recover Cherokee ways of understanding that are not fully equivalent to their English-language concepts. Snyder also discusses the methodological and conceptual challenges translation and (in)commensuration pose for Cherokee language revitalization efforts. This lecture is in conjunction with the graduate seminar, Music, Soundscapes, and the Environment and is sponsored by the Haines Morris Grant.

Room G22, NHMC

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