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This research discusses communication and meaning in the context of orality, using a variety of theoretical perspectives, including memory theory, media and communication theory, and semiotics. Drawing on the work of Walter Ong, it provides new insight about the characteristics and limits of oralnarration by assessing the memes, tropes, and phraseological units in the oral narrations of Armenian Genocide survivors. This research identifies a list of replicable forms of stories and oral devices that are used by the group in question; it then proposes that oral narration of non-fictional topics designed to convey historical or episodic information to others is intuitive, reactive, directed, fuzzy, and sticky. Concerns about the legitimacy and historical value of the narrations under review do not play a role in this research; instead, the focal point is the meaning embedded in the form and structure of the narrations under study.

Built in 1819 by the U.S. government, Fort Snelling sits at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers. This place is called a “bdote” by the Dakota people. Oral traditions describe bdote as the site of Dakota creation. Treaties in the nineteenth century allowed the U.S. government to dispossess the Dakota of this land. Fort Snelling is connected to many important points in U.S. history. It operated as a military post until the mid-twentieth century, and was a training or processing site for U.S. servicepersons who fought in the Civil War, U.S. Indian removal campaigns, and World War Two, among others. Dred Scott lived as a slave at Fort Snelling. Following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862, about 1,600 Dakota people were forcibly concentrated below Fort Snelling, where nearly 300 died. Shortly after, the U.S. government banished the Dakota from Minnesota. Today, Fort Snelling exists as “Historic Fort Snelling.” Run by the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS), the site offers a living history program which interprets Fort Snelling “as it was” in the 1820s—before much of these events of import occurred. This portrayal is geared toward schoolchildren and white Minnesotans, and focuses on the premise of peaceful U.S. settlement in the American West. This study describes Fort Snelling’s history, and address peoples’—both Dakota and other Minnesotans’—objections to the circumscribed interpretation of history at Historic Fort Snelling. By better revealing the memory alive at this site, most specifically the popularly ignored Dakota memories of Fort Snelling and bdote, this study hopes to convey what scholar Avery F. Gordon would term the “hauntings” present but unacknowledged at Historic Fort Snelling. This study concludes that in order to express the density of memory at Fort Snelling, MHS and Historic Fort Snelling must acknowledge that the Dakota people and their stories are crucial to its history. Further, these institutions must recognize that oppressive structures like U.S. colonialism allowed for Fort Snelling’s creation and operation. These structures and the hauntings they produce are still alive on this land, and onsite historical interpretation at Historic Fort Snelling must transform to reflect these living memories. / text

This research discusses communication and meaning in the context of orality, using a variety of theoretical perspectives, including memory theory, media and communication theory, and semiotics. Drawing on the work of Walter Ong, it provides new insight about the characteristics and limits of oralnarration by assessing the memes, tropes, and phraseological units in the oral narrations of Armenian Genocide survivors. This research identifies a list of replicable forms of stories and oral devices that are used by the group in question; it then proposes that oral narration of non-fictional topics designed to convey historical or episodic information to others is intuitive, reactive, directed, fuzzy, and sticky. Concerns about the legitimacy and historical value of the narrations under review do not play a role in this research; instead, the focal point is the meaning embedded in the form and structure of the narrations under study.

Submitted by CAMILA RODRIGUES DA SILVA null (mila_polis@hotmail.com) on 2016-03-03T14:08:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Texto-dissertação_Camila.pdf: 1230460 bytes, checksum: bd5c159b3e263b5b11cacb40ebd17f39 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Juliano Benedito Ferreira (julianoferreira@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2016-03-04T12:51:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_cr_me_mar.pdf: 1230460 bytes, checksum: bd5c159b3e263b5b11cacb40ebd17f39 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-04T12:51:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 silva_cr_me_mar.pdf: 1230460 bytes, checksum: bd5c159b3e263b5b11cacb40ebd17f39 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-02-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar os impactos da implementação da Lei Maria da Penha/2006, após a confirmação de sua constitucionalidade (2012), priorizando relatos orais de mulheres em situação de violência doméstica residentes na cidade de Marília e região. O método utilizado baseado na História Oral foi entendido como instrumento analíticometodológico para apreender as experiências vividas e as trajetórias de vida femininas evidenciando que elas são sujeitos da história e portadoras de direitos. O acesso ao método das oralidades nos possibilitou trazer indagações a respeito das dificuldades a elas apresentadas em relatar a sua história diante do processo traumático e de violência a que foram submetidas. Foi possível evidenciar as resistências do judiciário local quanto à aplicabilidade da Lei Maria da Penha e a interiorização da dor, sofrimento e silêncio rodeados pela desproteção e descaso que as rodeiam, quando, ao procurarem atendimentos especializados, não são respaldadas pela lei. Essas mulheres foram consideradas por nós sobreviventes da violência doméstica e de cada ato violento cometido contra elas, tornando-se prisioneiras dos seus próprios lares ao longo dos anos. Deste modo, na prática, a lei se encontra falha quanto a sua real efetivação e aplicabilidade na cidade de Marília e em outras cidades do país e as dificuldades e barreiras para sua implementação são de ordem material e de recurso humano, como também os fatores culturais e as representações de gênero arraigados na mentalidade daqueles que são ou foram responsáveis por sua execução. Diante desse cenário pudemos problematizar as múltiplas identidades femininas que no processo de identificação assumem e produzem uma variedade de possibilidades e novas posições, tornando as identidades mais posicionadas, políticas, plurais, menos fixas e unificadas compreendendo como são (re) significados os papeis identitários de ser mulher, mãe, companheira, dona-de-casa e profissional dessas mulheres que constantemente assumem novos posicionamentos cotidianos além-sobrevivência. Por fim, a pesquisa procurou romper com estereótipos de passividade entendida como condição feminina, evidenciando termos como agência e empoderamento para designar a existência do elemento ativo da ação individual; no caso, as ações individuais dessas mulheres e suas mobilizações em grupo. / The research aims to identify the impacts of the implementation of the Maria da Penha Law / 2006, after confirming its constitutionality (2012), prioritizing oral histories of women in situations of domestic violence living in the city of Marilia and region. The method based on oral history was understood as an analytical and methodological tool to learn the experiences and female life histories showing that are subjects of history and rights holders. Access to the method of orality has enabled us to bring questions about the difficulties presented to them in reporting their story before the traumatic process and violence to which they were subjected. It was possible to highlight the local judiciary's resistance to the applicability of the Maria da Penha Law and the internalization of pain, suffering and silence surrounded by defenselessness and indifference around them, when to seek specialized care, are not backed by law. These women were considered by us survivors of domestic violence and every violent act committed against them, becoming prisoners of their own homes over the years. Thus, in practice, the law is failure as its actual effectiveness and applicability in the city of Marilia and other cities of the country and the difficulties and obstacles to its implementation are material and human resource policy, as well as cultural factors and representations of gender rooted in the mentality of those who are or were responsible for their implementation. In this scenario we discuss the multiple female identities in the identification process take and produce a variety of possibilities and new positions, making the most positioned identities, policies, plurals, less fixed and unified understanding how are (re) signified the identity papers of a woman, mother, companion, housewife and professional those women who constantly take on new positions beyond daily survival. Finally, the research sought to break with passivity stereotypes perceived as feminine condition, showing terms as agency and empowerment to designate the existence of the active element of individual action; in this case, the individual actions of these women and their group mobilizations.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:19:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LucianoMA_da_capa_ate_cap2.pdf: 1744662 bytes, checksum: 6c3f8c4da0b825281294e4479c5d2bfb (MD5) Previous issue date: 2003-12-10 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The present work is an initiative of undertaking a perspective that values the aspects of the city in its diversity. The one that t intends is to discuss the urbanity starting from the aspect of the image, of the history, and about main point, to value the point of the individual's view that lives the urban space in its more several configurations: the house, the street, the neighborhood, and the city in wider scale. The described historical research defines the city as space of the human accomplishments. When analyzing the moments of the most recent history of the urban life the modernity/post-modernity notions they are explored in the sense of illuminating the wealth, continuity and it breaks of patterns of behavior, and on the other hand, to describe a I overfly in the several times of the city. The prominences of aspects of the archaeology and of the descriptive resource they are related, for its time, the most punctual perspective of the practical research, the instance of the neighborhood, specifically High City and Riverside, configuring an immersion in the daily more punctual of the city, valuing forms of being, aiming the perspective of the personal computer as point-of-view. The images of the city assume the paper of representing the documental about the current features of the urbanity. It is without a doubt that at the present time the photographic image already possesses a paper of prominence it is as research instrument, be as main source for a work on files of photos. The photographic images in the present work possess a prominence place, focusing specific places of the city in the time. Finally, the individual's voice valued under the perspective on as the person's knowledge that inhabits and live the urbanity he/she understands the knowledge of the life in the city and, more than in any other place, a middle where the loss of action models is pointed very easily tends in view the dynamic movement of the practices and renewal of new indications; in the same space in that becomes urgent to build marks starting from which the individual can shimmer the future. And in that space the individual's voice is valued as rich source of information on living the scenery of conflicts of the present time / O presente trabalho ? uma iniciativa de empreender uma perspectiva que valorize os aspectos da cidade em sua diversidade. O que se pretende ? discutir a urbanidade a partir do aspecto da imagem, da historia, e como ponto principal, valorizar o ponto do vista do individuo que vive o espa?o urbano em suas mais diversas configura??es: a casa, a rua, o bairro, e a cidade em escala mais ampla. A pesquisa hist?rica descrita define a cidade como espa?o das realiza??es humanas. Ao analisar os momentos da hist?ria mais recente da vida urbana s?o exploradas as no??es de modernidade/p?s-modernidade no sentido de esclarecer a riqueza, continuidade e quebra de padr?es de comportamento, e por outro lado, descrever um sobrev?o nos diversos tempos da cidade. Os destaques de aspectos da arqueologia e do recurso descritivos est?o relacionados, por sua vez, a perspectiva mais pontual da pesquisa pr?tica, a inst?ncia do bairro, especificamente Cidade Alta e Ribeira, configurando uma imers?o no cotidiano mais pontual da cidade, valorizando formas de estar, apontando a perspectiva do micro como ponto-de-vista. As imagens da cidade assumem o papel de representar o documental sobre as fei??es atuais da urbanidade. ? sem d?vida que na atualidade a imagem fotogr?fica possui um papel j? de destaque seja como instrumento de pesquisa, seja como fonte principal para um trabalho sobre arquivos de fotos. As imagens fotogr?ficas no presente trabalho possuem um lugar de destaque, enfocando lugares espec?ficos da cidade no tempo. Por fim, a voz dos individuo valorizada sob a perspectiva sobre como o conhecimento da pessoa que habita e vive a urbanidade compreende o conhecimento da vida na cidade e, mais que em qualquer outro lugar, um meio onde se aponta a perda de modelos de a??o muito facilmente tendo em vista o movimento din?mico das pr?ticas e renova??o de novas indica??es; no mesmo espa?o em que se torna urgente construir marcos a partir dos quais o individuo possa vislumbrar o futuro. E nesse espa?o a voz do individuo ? valorizada como fonte rica de informa??es sobre viver o cen?rio de conflitos da atualidade

The content of this thesis is premised on a reflexive examination of some historical juxtapositions culminating in critical aspects of being Māori in the twenty first century and how such aspects have informed contemporary indigenous identity. That is, the continuing acknowledgement and exponential public recognition of critical concepts which inextricably link indigenous and civic identity. The theoretical sources for this research are, in the main, derived from anthropological and religious studies, particularly on the significance of mythologies and oral histories, as well as from the oral theorising of elders in Aotearoa New Zealand. A very significant contribution from one such elder, a senior Māori woman academic, has been included in the form of the transcript of an interview. She herself had collected the views of a number of elders on myth, creating a rare and valuable resource. In the interview she married her reflections on these with her own experiences and her cogent analyses. From the outset, it was necessary to be discerning so as to ensure the thesis workload was manageable and realistic. For this reason the selected critical aspects that have been used to frame this research are (1) a developing Western validation (that is, acknowledgement and respect) of Māori, Māori culture and their mythology; (2) oral history (genealogy) and traditions that have remained constant despite the influences of modernity; and (3) notions of fluidity, negotiation and pragmatism regarding kinship legacies and cultural heritage. The thesis is comprised of six chapters starting from a subjective narrative leading through increasingly objective discourses that culminate in a conclusion which supports a belief that modern Māori require a balancing of critical aspects of cultural heritage, with a broad understanding of the world of the 'other', in order to realise and develop their contemporary indigenous identity. Ultimately, indigenous ideologies, practices and knowledge recorded and examined in the world of academia today, become potential resources for tomorrow. The intention of this research is to aggregate and discuss intrinsic aspects of the Māori past as well as developing aspects of the present, in order to better understand the significance of the future, and to add to the growing corpus of indigenous worldviews.