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Transcendence: May Time Take These Bones, They Are Not Mine - A Poetry Collection

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  • In ethnographic research, an anthropologist becomes integrated in the community of their study. Throughout this process, the anthropologist adapts to the cultural practices and the language of this community, becoming intimately connected to them. Ethnography communicates, through the anthropologist’s experience, crucial practices, tensions, and values discovered during research. However, it has been said that if an ethnographer conducts her research in – for example - Spanish and then translates the paper to English, the meaning will get lost in translation twice. Once as it is converted from Spanish to English, and again as it is translated from the poetic language of emotion to the academic language of publishers. As a student in anthropology, I find everything I write is a type of anthropological inquiry. As a poet, I mourn what is lost in translation as we edit our thoughts to make them fit for the eyes of our academic peers. My thesis project follows a series of reflections that came to me following a purposefully ethnographic trip to Claresholm, Alberta – the home of my great grandfather. I had intended to carry out my project as an ethnography. However, given the deeply and emotionally profound experience I had, I did not want to lose any meaning in translation. Therefore, my proposed project is a poetry collection that follows the journey I took to realizing how the physical body is connected to and accountable to all living things in a way that transcends the importance of the individual self. The poetry collection is divided into three sections that explore the human relationship with time, human emotional experiences, and – finally – the relationship between the individual self and the natural world.
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