Workshop on Folklore Fieldwork and Online Archiving with Wiki
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Contents
- 1 Workshop on Folklore Fieldwork and Online Archiving with Wiki
- 2 A Thematic Overview and Outline of Activities for the Month-long Fieldwork Course
- 3 General
- 4 Lectures
- 5 Group Discussions
- 6 Fieldwork schedules and Assignments
- 7 Fieldwork Plans
- 8 Events
- 9 Fieldwork Plans
- 10 Technical Training
- 11 Creating Online Archives
- 12 Folklore of the Transgender Community in Tamilnadu
- 13 Siri Epic Performance
- 14 Koti Chennayya
- 15 Ethnographic Resources related to Folklore, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, and the Humanities
Workshop on Folklore Fieldwork and Online Archiving with Wiki
[http://class.csueastbay.edu/anthropology/claus/ Peter Claus's Webpage at California State University, East Bay]
A Thematic Overview and Outline of Activities for the Month-long Fieldwork Course
Key Issues Addressed in this workshop
- Reason for the production of Archives
- A brief history of Public Archives in Colonized Cultures
- Folklore Archives as Knowledge Bases
- Archives and Communities
- The Scope and Reach of Future Archives
- The Contents of Archives
- Collecting for Archives
- Maintaining and Organizing Archives
- Access to Archives
- Online Archiving with Wiki
- Archives and Community empowerment
General
- Udupi Workshop Organizers and Participants
- Travel to Udupi
- Location map of Udupi
- Read about Tulunadu
- Read About History of Udupi
- Local News
Lectures
- Archives as Knowledge bases by Peter Claus
- Representing Communities by M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
- Tension in the Ideas of Fieldwork, Research, Collection and Archives by Peter Claus
- Media Education for the Public by S.A.Krishnaiah
- Community-Centered Knowledge Bases as Wikis by M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
- Facilitating Folklore by S.A.Krishnaiah
- Introducing the Koti-Chennayya and the The Shri Brahma Baidarkala Samskritika Adhyayana Pratishtana by S.A. Krishnaiah
- Researching Koti-Chennayya by Vaman Nandavar
- Institutional Support for Folklore Communities by S.A.Krishnaiah and M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
- Translating Tulu into English: Koti-Chennayya by Shankar Narayana D. Poojary
- The NFSC's Projects as Community-Centered Knowledge Bases by M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
- Working with the Transgender Community by B.Jishamol
- Siri in the Finnish Project by Viveka Rai and Chinnappa Gowda
- Working with a Tuluva Gender Community: Film Screening and Discussion by Shashikala Gurpur and/or Shushma Moily
- Working with a Transgender Community: Film Screening and Discussion by B.Jishamol
- Foreign Researchers Doing Fieldwork by Peter Claus
- Assisting Foreign Scholar Doing Fieldwork by Chinnappa Gowda
- Assisting Foreign Scholar Doing Fieldwork by M.N. Venkatesha
- Assisting Foreign Scholar Doing Fieldwork by S.A.Krishnaiah
- The Basics of Database Cataloguing: How We Do It At The RRC by S.A.Krishnaiah
- Cataloguing Collections: How We Do It At The NFSC by B.Jishamol
- Representing the Larger Community by Peter Claus
- Archiving Siri Myths and Rituals and Koti-Chennayya as Knowledge Bases Representing Communities on the Web by Peter Claus
- WWW Wikis and the Local Community by M.D.Muthukumaraswamy
Group Discussions
Fieldwork schedules and Assignments
Fieldwork I
Koti Chennaya Group
Visit Adi Udupi
Siri Group
Visit a "small" Siri Shrine (family alude and mulastana) near Udupi. Date: Tuesday February 26, 2008
Fieldwork II
Koti Chennaya Group
View K-C nema videos in RRC Archive
Siri Group
View Hiriyadka Sri Festival videos in RRC Archive
Date: Wednesday February 27, 2008
Fieldwork III
Koti Chennaya Group
Interviewing Adi Udupi informants at RRC archive with video and photos
Siri Group
Visit Hiriyadka Virabhadra (Mahalingeshwara) Temple, Siri alude and mulastana. Interviews with Temple management and Hiriyadka residents.
Fieldwork IV
Koti Chennaya Group
Visit Hiriyadka, Bommarabettu and Anjar.
Siri Group
Visit and photograph Mekkekattu and Manchikallu What is the relationship between Siri and the Chikku dieties?
Date: Friday February 29, 2008
Fieldwork V
Koti Chennaya Group
Work in archives reviewing photos and videos of K-C rituals. Develop a detailed plan for upcoming agel and nema
Siri Group
Visit to Nandolige and Kabbitar "Siri" temples. Interviews with temple officials and leading families.
Date: Saturday March 1, 2008
Fieldwork VI
Koti Chennaya Group
Spend most of the day in Anjar around the Garodi observing and documenting preparations for the upcoming events. Interviewing people, getting to know the community and their lives, families, livelihoods, past and present agriculture system, history, etc.
Siri Group
By this time, the members of the group should have made enough contacts to begin interviewing Siri cult participants in the region.
Fieldwork VII
Miscellaneous collections, data gathering and interviews.
Dates: Tuesday March 11, 2008 and Wednesday March 12, 2008
Fieldwork Plans
Events
Date: February 20, 2008 Koti Chennayya Book Release Function
Koti-Chennayya Agelu: Bommarabettu-Hiriyadka
Date: February 21, 2008 Full moon day in the Tulu month of Maayi Siri festival at HurumbidoTTu
Fieldwork Plans
Date: February 27, 2008 Yakshagana (Full night) Shiryara-Mekkikattu-Udupi District Mekkikattu fieldwork : Notes to International Workshop Students. Date: Friday February 28, 2008
Technical Training
- Wiki Editing Tutorial
- Read Renée Fountain's paper on Wiki Pedagogy
- Check out top 100 tools of learning 2007
- Learn About UNESCO's digital library software
Creating Online Archives
Folklore of the Transgender Community in Tamilnadu
- Annotated Textual Resources TG
- Annotated Web Resources TG
- Samples of Photo documentation available at National Folklore Support Centre, India TG
- Samples of Video Documentation available at National Folklore Support Centre, India, TG
- Samples from the Archive of Newspaper Clippings TG
- Media Representations TG
- Bibliography TG
- TV Cippings TG
Siri Epic Performance
- Annotated Textual Resources Siri
- Annotated Web Resources Siri
- Photo documentation available at Regional Resources Centre for Folk Performing Arts, Udupi Siri
- Video Documentation available at Regional Resources Centre for Folk Performing Arts, Udupi Siri
- Archive of Newspaper Clippings Siri
- Media Representations Siri
- Bibliography Siri
- TV Clippings Siri
Koti Chennayya
- Annotated Textual Resources KC
- Annotated Web Resources KC
- Photo documentation available at Regional Resources Centre for Folk Performing Arts, Udupi KC
- Video Documentation available at Regional Resources Centre for Folk Performing Arts, Udupi KC
- Archive of Newspaper Clippings KC
- Media Representations KC
- Bibliography KC
- TV Clppings KC
