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[Class 1]

Item number (ISN):

537285

Series title:

[Aboriginal Mythologies]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1999-01-12

Item number (ISN):

537285

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Accession:

2016-00749-4

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1999-01-12

Country of production:

cn

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Audio recording of several lectures given by Tomson Highway (Toronto - University college), between January 1999 and March 1999 pertaining to Indigenous mythology. Class 1 (First recording) - Highway gives an overview of each course, course outline and reading summary as well as the subjects of each class. Presentation on the day's class: comparative of Native and Christian Super structures (ideological, mythology). Highway presents what has been written on Indigenous anthropology, mythology. Highway compares Christian, Greek and Indigenous mythologies (the various worlds: animate and inanimate, bodies vs souls, reasons for existence, female vs male based systems, the various gods and deities, <1h 50mn 18s>~Side B - Highway continues his presentation on the comparison of mythologies: the disappearance of the goddess culture and matriarchal societies. Question period at the end of the class - students comment and ask questions: concepts of gender in mythologies and in language. Discussions continue on between Highway and students ( possibly Patricia Cano) <20 min>~Class I (continued). Highway discusses the representations of God in various mythological systems (Highway explains how it is hard for him to not be critical of the Christianity system because of his past and what he has seen in Native communities); the conceptions of time and space in each mythologies (no beginning and no end in Indigenous mythology); the mapping of the souls of each cvilization; the geography of North America and its peoples as well as the mythological beings that exist in each geographical areas (by Native communities and beliefs); the figure of Nanabush or Wesakechak; the presentation of Indigenous linguistic families of Central Canada (Algonquian, Iroquoian languages); the destruction of Native tales by European missionaries; new litterature by Canadian Indigenous artists. At the end of the recording students comment and ask several questions. Students also hand in drawings of their vision of "God" <45 min>

Language:

English

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1. Audio cassette tape.~2. Audio cassette recording of parts 1, 2 of the January 12, 1999.

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Vault ISN:

899440

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

40619AV
40620AV

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

2

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1022337

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

537285-40619AV-1.WAV
537285-40619AV-2.WAV
537285-40620AV.wav

Number of items:

3

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

117:00

Made from:

40619AV
40620AV

Status:

MASTER
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Open to consultation.

Donor restrictions:

No reproduction without the consent of [Tomson Highway]

Copyright status:

Under copyright

Copyright owner:

Owner of copyright: [Tomson Highway]

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