Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:19:49 -0500 From: Mary Horsley <mphorsley-AT-earthlink.net> To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] The importance of storytellers LOL, unlike greedy Americans who insist on building condos on the beaches so they can have their view........not exactly smart! Mary H. On 11/22/08 11:52 AM, "puppetpro-AT-aol.com" <puppetpro-AT-aol.com> wrote: > After the 2004 Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, a news story came out about an > ancient Paleolithic people in the Nicobar/Andaman Islands that survived the > storm because of their ancient knowledge of the ocean -- transmitted by > storytellers. When the ocean began to recede from the shore, the natives > remembered the stories of this happening before (well over 1,000 years ago, I > believe) and went to higher ground. While there was much damage and loss of > life in the islands, this small band of natives survived. They listened =A0to > their storytellers, and remembered what to do.=A0 Rolande -----Original > Message----- From: Michael Moynihan <mmoynihan-AT-wi.rr.com> To: > puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Sent: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 7:09 pm Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] > Gift Economy On Nov 21, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Ed Atkeson wrote: > The > thing that stuck in my head was the author said that before the > mine came > the most talented storyteller was the most important person > on the > island. Demonstrates an example of one of the main points that led me to be > interested in and pay very close attention to what Lewis Hyde wrote. You > refer to the 1981 building of the Bechtel Ok Tedi Mine, the largest mine in > Papua New Guinea at that time. The mine waste was dumped directly in the Ok > Tedi River after a dam, built by Bechtel, was destroyed in a land slide. And > the end of the story you already know. Despite the majority of apparently > happy capitalist puppeteers, I do r ecall reading here some commiserating > why we USA puppeteer/ storytellers were often relegated to the kid's table at > the performing arts thanksgiving feast. An Gift interesting > review: http://southerncrossreview.org/4/schwartz.html As to the Refrigerator > biz in a gifty-ier, more human friendly economy, not much different from any > biz endeavors. Worker owned manufacturing? Consumer owned > cooperative? Refrigerators you cannot own, only use, so when you are done with > it, it goes back to the manufacturer for rebuilding/recycling. Same with > iPods, computers, cars, tools? Cooperatives usually are cost effective and > responsive to their owners. Here in the heartland of the USA we have Ace > Hardware, a cooperative that was created in 1924. Ocean Spray has been > around for over 75 years as an agricultural cooperative, owned by cranberry > growers and grapefruit growers. Consumer owned power utilities cost an > average of 13% less than investor owned. And they can choose how the energy > is generated. Puppeteers' Cooperative: http://gis.net/~puppetco/ - > moynihan Why can't we all(cooperatively) get along? And what IS so funny about > peace, love and > understanding? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWdh7ERLb3E _____________ > __________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin > interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: > http://www.driftline.org > _______________________________________________ List address: > puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: > http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: > http://www.driftline.org _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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