Resources and Narrative Vignettes

Narrative Vignettes on the Interplay of Human Diversity and Shared Humanity:

Come explore how various narratives might address the spokes and hub, and the interplay between them, and, in turn, relate to other narratives, and how they are accessed and understood from a humanities perspective.  For example, how is the interplay of the diverse/finite and the shared/infinite defined and expressed within and between Christian, Indigenous and Science mega-narratives?  I have listed below a sampling of vignettes from various narratives, expressed through texts, images, music and performance.   As an entry point, try exploring the interplay of the particular/unique and the universal/ubiquitous as found in Picasso's Guitar and Weeping Woman or in Gast's American Progress.  What are their meanings and implications for you?

These particular vignettes are derived from the academic background and interests of Rodney Frey, and do not reflect the additional and varied narratives that will be presented and explored by the Humanities Exploration team.  For an introduction to a humanities perspective go to the this link.   

Christian Vignettes:	Indigenous Vignettes:
Abraham's Covenants Ask the Cattle, Ask the Birds The Cathedral and the Axis Mundi Crusades Genesis: from Void and Darkness to Light and Multitudes Genesis: Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses Lewis' Love Michelangelo's The Fall Words of Love from Jesus Words about Christ from John	All Things Were Kindred (Lakota - American Indian) Burnt Face and the Wagon Wheel (Apsáalooke - American Indian) Heart Knowledge - summary Indigenous "Art" Karora and the Dreamtime (Aranda - Australian Aborigine) Orality and the Power of Words Rites of Passage/Pilgrimage (individual and collective transformation) Salmon Always Goes Up River (Indigenous Peoples of the Columbia River - American Indian) Sedna and the Seal (Inuit - Eskimo) The Tipi (Apsáalooke - American Indian) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007 United Nations) The Wagon Wheel (Apsáalooke - American Indian)
Philosophy Vignettes:	Science Vignettes:
Bateson's Mind Kuhn's Paradigm Shifts Plato's Cave Barfield's Rainbow Emerson's World is Mind Precipitated	Aristotle's Octopus Bacon's Utilitarianism Descartes' Rationalism and Dualism Earth from Apollo 17 Galileo's Facts Geocentric Cosmos - Heliocentric Universe Head Knowledge - summary Hominid Evolution and the Dream Animal Locke's Empiricism M�bius Strip and Inclusivity Newton's Laws Pythagoras' Language of Nature Quantum Mechanics - the Vital Act is the Act of Participation
Other Vignettes:	Other Vignettes:
The Academy Capitalism and Praxis Needs Charter of the United Nations (Preamble) Chimamanda Adichie: the Danger of the Single Story Declaration of Independence  (4 July 1776) Further Applications of the Wheel (as ethnographer, in teaching research methods, Plateau Indians, world religions, science, and culture change) Gast's American Progress (Romanticism) Gettysburg Address (19 November 1863) Jericho and Domestication Nazi Swastika Picasso's Guitar and Weeping Woman (Cubism/Surrealism)	As Above, So Below - As a Drop in an Endless Ocean (Hindu) Bhavacakra - Wheel of Life (Tibetan Buddhist) The Blind and the Beast (Sufi - Muslim) The Cosmic Vision (Hindu) The Fool (Sufi - Muslim) Hail to the Vagina (Buddhist) Tang Yin's Landscape Paintings (Taoist) The Tao and Yin Yang (Taoist)

 

Links to other resource examples and background:

Dan Bukvich's Missa Africa (the unique and ubiquitous expressed in music) Design Thinking Unlimited (an example of a UI interdisciplinary course) Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, Society and Art (an interdisciplinary approach to stem cell research - artists, philosophers, sociologists, legal scholars, scientists) Toolbox (a cross-disciplinary research approach to communication and collaboration) Distinguished Humanities Professor (background) Humanities Professorship of Gary Williams  2007-08 (activities and events) Frey's Home Page

For more information: Rodney Frey