In 'Seasonality and schismogenesis', social anthropologist #ThomasWidlok draws on longterm fieldwork with Hai//om people of northern Namibia, envisaging an ‘indigenous critique’ of two key themes: oscillatory switches framed by seasonality, and ‘schismogenesis’. He calls these ‘doing seasons’ and ‘doing difference’. Doing seasons without ‘unruly switching’, Hai//om indigenous voice critiques the structuralist/dualist seasonal perspective in #TheDawnofEverything ‘coloured by agricultural folks in the high latitude zones’. Life histories collected from Hai//om seniors also provide the opposite of ‘doing difference’ – that is, ‘undoing difference’, when they describe living with !Xû neighbours as ‘children of one woman’.

#anthropology #schismogenesis #Hai//om #Namibia #indigenousvoice

https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/hgr.2022.5

Faced with the prospect of larger audience, the Romantics decided that they would be the writers who would not engage in such vulgarity. Their work was to champion individual experiences to be savoured, not to churn out penny dreadfuls with mass appeal! #Schismogenesis strikes again…

https://brologue.net/tag/schismogenesis/

I’m conflicted about this.

I learned the term #schismogenesis, which essentially boils down to: “they hate it, we love it!”

Personally, I’ve been a believer in #PointAndLaugh at the #AntiNormie.

But, does it have the opposite tribal effect than intended?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schismogenesis