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What is Diné & Diné Philosophy

Chapter 17
Handbook of Research on Computational Arts and Creative Informatics
“Diné” literally means “The People” and is typical of the names early American-continent inhabitants gave themselves in their own language. The term “Navajo” is also used, but the choice to self-identify as Navajo or Diné is a personal one. Little is written of Diné Philosophy, both because the knowledge is restricted, and because the transmission follows the oral tradition. The information provided in this chapter is public in that the visualization itself and different pieces of the embedded information have been published in other documents. My choice to use this visualization as an illustration was guided both by its inherent sophistication and by my own sense of justice that calls for the recognition and understanding of all peoples’ knowledges.
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Visual Analytics and Conceptual Blending Theory
Mia Kalish (Diné College, USA)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 21
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-352-4.ch017
Abstract
One visualization in Diné philosophy is four small dots arranged in a circular sequence at 90°, 0°, 270°, and 180°. Each position is associated with a time of day, a season, a color, a type of stone, a time in the lifecycle, and a process of living and learning. I use Conceptual Blending Theory to explore this complex information space of small spatial stories that combine to form an “information system of information systems.” This approach to visual analytics uses reduction to human scale, which easily adapts itself to automated analysis and data configuration. This process reveals a previously unseen world and contributes new ideas to understanding both the creation of new visualizations and the decomposition of existing visualizations. This verifiable methodology can validate the steps in the decomposition process itself and also be used to predict the content of missing data.
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