I thought this was interesting… on average, an @ethnosproject tweet gets 4-5 retweets and a few favorites. That is the norm for tweets about resources, calls for papers, projects of interest, etc. Yesterday, I posted this tweet about the Inuit word for Internet: Inuktitut term for the word Internet is […]
internet • Inuit • Inuktitut • Nunavut • TwitterFolklore 2.0: Preservation Through Innovation
The very cultural heritage that gives indigenous peoples their identity, now far more than in the past, is under real or potential assault from those who would gather it up, strip away its honored meanings, convert it to a product, and sell it. Each time that happens the heritage itself […]
2012 • cultural heritage • culture | preservation • folklore • innovation • intellectual property • traditional culture