Misconceptions and Mistranslations: The Langauge of Traditional Yapese Dances

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Author(s): Elizabeth Midil Rutun (University of Guam, Guam)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 15
Source title: Learning and Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education in Oceania
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Perry Jason Camacho Pangelinan (University of Guam, Guam)and Troy McVey (University of Guam, Guam)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7736-3.ch006

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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For years the Yapese language has been perceived to be on its way out. In this chapter, this perceived looming death of language is examined as a necessary tangent to traditional Yapese practices, specifically traditional Yapese dances. It examines how the preservation of the traditional practice of dancing is important to the survival of the language and how meaning is created. In this chapter, meaning is specifically gleaned from the body and the spaces from which the traditional Yapese dances emerge. Furthermore, this chapter illustrates how instances of failure to appropriately use meaning in association with dance has resulted in lost meaning.

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