Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Consumerism, Hans Moravec, Mnemonic
5 Dec 2012
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Oral peoples commonly associate sound with great power: a hunter can see, smell, taste a buffalo, but if he hears a buffalo he better watch out, in this sense sound is dynamic. Ex. proverbs, hesiod (delivered quasi-philosophic material in formulaic verse) First nations people understood time in ecological and generational terms rather htan calendrical. They used temporal units rather than spatial ones to measure canoe routes etc. 16th century, european literacy challenged aboriginal culture. Oral word of many can vary and thus, the bible was seen as superior to storytelling. Aboriginal people are fundamental to the growth of canadian institutions (also stated by innis) This is through their cultures and polititcs. Their dominant mode of communication was speech. Film: summer of the loucheux (filmmaker: mccrea: climax is when they visit the 93 year old grandmother (alestine) who told her story: She thinks of this country as her own .
