PERLS204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Shinny

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Course: PERLS204
• Professor: Katie Davies

Document Summary

Not very many perspectives form the aboriginal side because history was mostly oral. Helps us to not engage in biases, and recognizing that there is another voice. Helps us have a better judgement of early canada and how they came to be. Problems with interpretations = tend to universalize. There are many different groups, and yet we tend to talk about the indigenous people as if they are one group. Tells us more about the author then the people they were observing. These histories are written for someone else and not by someone else. Wrestli(cid:374)g (cid:449)as a (cid:449)ay of (cid:373)eeti(cid:374)g ea(cid:272)h other. Just do(cid:374)e to re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ize the other"s stre(cid:374)gth and to honor that, rather than imposing their strength on each other. Physicality survival, importance of physical strength and being able to demonstrate it. O(cid:374)e purpose (cid:449)as to trai(cid:374) so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e"s stre(cid:374)gth, (cid:271)ut to also de(cid:373)o(cid:374)strate it. Games were developed to help men enjoy pain, finger pulls, mouth pulls.