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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- images of flora from nature or of specimens, family Cyperaceae. Only a few of the many sedge spp. are of interest to people in central Mali: Cyperus articulatus (aromatic tubers), Cyperus esculentus (commercialized edible tubers, "pois sucrés"), Cyperus maculatus (rootstocks burned as incense), Cyperus rotundus (edible tubers, not very good and not commercialized).
- Keyword:
- Cyperaceae, sedge, Cyperus
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- images of plants, in nature or specimens, of family Euphorbiaceae. Euphorbia sudanica may include the very similar Euphorbia paganorum. Manihot is cultivated cassava. Euphorbia balsamifera is planted along roads. The two Jatropha's (of American origin) and Ricinus are planted in villages. See also Phyllanthaceae, which were moved out of Euphorbiaceae.
- Keyword:
- Euphorbiaceae
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Crain, Mark
- Description:
- The 2023 DREAM Street Fair was a free, family-friendly festival celebrating our neighborhood’s spirit of community, entrepreneurship, arts and culture, and healthy living. Hosted by Jermaine “Big Fresh” Carey and rising comedian Nadirah Pierre, and headlined by multi-platinum recording artist Freeway, the event featured performances by Khalil Ismail, Ain’t Afraid, Journalist 103, Tariq Toure, and Hardcore Detroit. It was an afternoon of empowering poetry, soulful vocals, classic hip-hop, world-class break dancing, and fun interactions with the crowd. Nearly 40 vendors, including some of the area’s best food trucks, set up shop to interact with 3,000 attendees over the course of the day. And children were treated to bounce houses, button-making, book readings, and outdoor video gaming., Primarily hosted by Dream of Detroit, a local organization combining community organizing and development to revitalize a Westside neighborhood, the Street Fair was a true community partnership. The Detroit Repertory Theatre, the city’s longest-running neighborhood theatre, opened up their lot to sell treasured props from 60 years worth of performances. The HUDA Clinic, our local free health care center, offered dental screenings, health assessments and referral services. And, at the HUDA Urban Garden, attendees picked fruits and vegetables, and learned creative ways to make tasty and healthy meals and snacks. Putting on a free neighborhood festival of this scale would have been impossible without the support of Egalitarian Metropolis and sponsors like Mercy-USA. Plainly put: these types of events don’t usually happen in neighborhoods like ours. That’s why, for nearly a decade, Dream of Detroit has been working toward a truly inclusive Detroit recovery where the idea that “every neighborhood has a future” is more than just a political slogan., and Our goal with this event was to host an excellent celebration for our community members, and to shine a spotlight on the community-led placemaking and development happening in our neighborhood. The DREAM Street Fair stands alongside other initiatives like the DREAM Community Land Trust, our partnership with ProsperUs Detroit Entrepreneurship Workshop, and our membership in the Coalition for Property Tax Justice, as just some of the programs we are involved in to do our small part in creating an Egalitarian Metropolis. More information about DREAM of Detroit can be found at https://dreamofdetroit.org/.
- Discipline:
- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Porter, David
- Description:
- Launched in response to the growing crisis of narrative infrastructure, the Detroit River Story Lab is a collaborative, public-facing initiative that leverages the sociocultural, economic, and ecological centrality of the Detroit River corridor to reimagine it as an urban case study in narrative placemaking and civic renewal. Beginning with the premise that place-based storymaking is vital to sustaining democratic values and community capacity for self-determination, the Lab partners on projects designed to support the narrative capacities of local urban communities through the story-telling channels of community journalism, place-based education, and public history., There are many stories from across a variety of periods and contexts that foreground the prevalence of aquatic racialization in our region. These include the legal restrictions placed on Black residents’ access to the Detroit River in the aftermath of the successful escape of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn from Kentucky slave catchers in 1833, repeated episodes of the often violent expulsion of Black workers and residents from Wyandotte and other sundown towns along the Detroit River between the 1870s and 1940s – and the repeated erasure of these stories from official published histories of these towns, the Bob-Lo Excursion Company’s policy, in the 1930’s and 40’s, of barring Blacks from the ferry boats that provided access for Detroiters to the Boblo Island amusement park, a policy famously up-ended by the US Supreme Court in 1948 after being challenged by a 24-year-old Detroit, Sarah Elizabeth Ray, after being ordered to leave the boat, the demolition of the predominantly Black, riverside neighborhood of Black Bottom in Detroit in the 1950s in the name of urban renewal, the UN’s 2014 appeal, on the grounds of basic human rights, for the city of Detroit to restore access to water sourced from their own Detroit River to residents who can’t afford monthly water bills, and consumption restrictions on Detroit River fish important to local populations owing to long histories of environmental degradation., and Considered together, these cases would seem to point to an undertheorized dimension of racialized systems of hierarchy and exclusion in the Great Lakes region and possibly the US more generally. The origins and long-term effects of zones of racial exclusion in the economically decisive domains of work, education, and housing are by now well known. The role of waterways as similarly delineated spaces of privilege and oppression is less commonly noted; in a state whose history has been so thoroughly defined by its lakes and rivers and so regularly scarred by racial conflict, the phenomenon of aquatic racialization calls out for integrative examination and public reckoning. More information about Aquatic Spaces can be found at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/detroit-river-story-lab/.
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
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- Creator:
- Rida, Salam and Smith, Torri
- Description:
- Michigan-Mellon’s renewed Egalitarian Metropolis cycle of funding focuses on the city of Detroit and ways that creative practice and the urban humanities can equitably address urban recovery. In tangible ways, The University of Michigan Architecture Preparatory Program (ArcPrep) is already doing just that: creating a sense of optimism and agency for Detroit public high school juniors interested in design and its affiliated fields. , Through an intensive, semester-long studio taught by our Mellon Fellows in Architecture, young designers learn to critically discern Detroit’s complex spatial histories as they explore ways to shape the city’s possible futures. The program takes the students’ talents, creativity, and expertise very seriously, nurturing an inclusionary pedagogical model based broadly on egalitarian educational ideals. In the process, we bring together a network of Taubman College faculty and students, Detroit institutions, community and government organizations, and professional enterprises into conversation and collaboration with students. In the past, ArcPrep has partnered with the Detroit Public Library, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Detroit Cultivator Community Land Trust, and the Sidewalk Festival, to name a few. With each partnership, we situated culturally contingent, place-based design exercises for students to directly engage with the city and its leaders., and More information about the Michigan Architecture Preparatory Program (ArcPrep) can be found at https://taubmancollege.umich.edu/academics/pre-college-programs/michigan-architecture-prep/
- Discipline:
- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Carducci, Vincent and Mascorella, Anna
- Description:
- What does/can/should an egalitarian metropolis look like? And how does a focus on Detroit allow us to ask and answer these conceptual—and practical—questions in ways that draw on a variety of disciplines including architecture, history, urban planning, and the urban humanities?, This course offers an interdisciplinary perspective on urban studies, urban design, and the ways that concerns around social justice and equity can influence how we think about cities in the past, present, and future. Drawing on a range of faculty expertise in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, this team-taught course also incorporates the voices of practitioners and community members involved in current attempts to revitalize Detroit and “Detroit-like” cities in the United States and elsewhere. By “Detroit-like cities” we mean urban areas that have experienced negative population growth, deindustrialization, economic disinvestment, racial stratification, environmental injustices, and concomitant crises in housing, health care, policing, criminalization, and education. At the same time, Detroit and Detroit-like cities offer opportunities to conjoin critical humanistic inquiry, urban design, and policy solutions for building more equitable and sustainable cities., and This course is co-designed and co-taught as part of the Egalitarian Metropolis Project, which is a partnership between the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It combines traditional course materials with a team-based orientation to teaching and learning. More information about the EM Classroom can be found at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/egalitarianmetropolis/em-classroom/.
- Discipline:
- Social Sciences and Humanities
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- Creator:
- Porter, David
- Description:
- Launched in response to the growing crisis of narrative infrastructure, the Detroit River Story Lab is a collaborative, public-facing initiative that leverages the sociocultural, economic, and ecological centrality of the Detroit River corridor to reimagine it as an urban case study in narrative placemaking and civic renewal. Beginning with the premise that place-based storymaking is vital to sustaining democratic values and community capacity for self-determination, the Lab partners on projects designed to support the narrative capacities of local urban communities through the story-telling channels of community journalism, place-based education, and public history., The Story Lab co-designs scalable interventions to strengthen community-based forms of narrative infrastructure. Participants draw upon archives and oral histories to document previously marginalized narratives centering the river. Drawing on this research, we prototype new approaches to place-based learning, within the university and beyond, to expand the publics involved in the production and circulation of local narratives of identity and urban memory., and More information about the Detroit River Story Lab (DRSL) can be found at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/detroit-river-story-lab/.
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning and University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Description:
- The Michigan–Mellon Project on the Egalitarian Metropolis supported several impactful programs and initiatives. These collaborative projects developed through several mediums, primarily: faculty and student-led research, public-engaged scholarship, and community-led place-based projects. Explore each project below! Original website at https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/egalitarianmetropolis/.
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Black, Marcia and Draper Garcia, Lex
- Description:
- Black Bottom Archives (BBA) is a community-driven media platform dedicated to centering and amplifying the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Black Detroiters through digital storytelling, journalism, art, and community organizing with a focus on preserving local Black history & archiving our present., Black Bottom Archives Presents: Sankofa Community Research (SCR) is a Black Detroiter led, year-long community research project in partnership with Detroit Peoples Platform and academic partners at the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, and Wayne State University to collect oral histories and conduct historical research to document the multi-generational impact of the destruction of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley on Black Detroiters; and to explore Black Detroiters collective vision for reparations as part of the 'I-375 Reconnecting Communities Project.', and Bringing together oral histories, census records, business records, historic maps, and other sources, we will examine how displacement impacted people, businesses, cultural centers, environment, public space, and infrastructure and produce a community report that presents evidence of impact and proposes reparative actions. More information about Black Bottom Archives can be found at https://www.blackbottomarchives.com/.
- Discipline:
- Humanities and Social Sciences
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- images of plants, in nature or specimens, of family Malvaceae, genera A to G. Malvaceae (sensu lato) now includes former Bombacaceae (Adansonia, Ceiba, Bombax), Tiliaceae (Grewia, Corchorus, Triumfetta), and Sterculiaceae (Cola, Sterculia, Waltheria).
- Keyword:
- Malvaceae
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- The spreadsheets (in csv and xlsx formats) have columns for botanical family, genus-species binomials, synonymy (outdated binomials) on the left, folllowed by columns with native terms in several Dogon languages and in Bangime. Dogon languages included are Toro Tegu, Ben Tey, Bankan Tey, Nanga, Jamsay (main dialect), Perge Tegu (Jamsay of Pergé village), Gourou (aberrant variety of Jamsay), Togo Kan, Yorno So and Ibi So (in Toro So dialect complex), Donno So, Tomo Kan (of Segué and of Diangassagou), Tomo Kan, Dogul Dom, Tebul Ure, Yanda Dom, Najamba, Tiranige, Mombo, Ampari, Bunoge, and Penange. JH in column headings indicates that the material is from Dr. Heath's fieldwork. and For images of many of these plants, see the collection "Mali flora images" in Deep Blue Data ( https://doi.org/10.7302/aef4-fk26). For a practical guide to these plants, click on the link below in "related items in Deep Blue Documents".
- Keyword:
- Dogon, Bangime, and flora
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Documentary-style videos about villages and social relations in Dogon country. Documentaries are given in two or three video formats each.
- Keyword:
- Mali, Dogon, and villages
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Tebul Ure is a Dogon language spoken on the heights in a horseshoe valley between Bamba and Yanda on the eastern edge of the Dogon (Bandiagara) plateau in central Mali. A grammar is drafted but incomplete as of May 2018. Texts were transcribed from dictation in 2012 in the Tebul area, and others were recorded digitally in 2015 at a nearby town on the plateau. Six of the 2015 texts have been transcribed. The texts are included at the end of the grammar. I grant permission to other linguists to transcribe, translate, or analyse any texts that remain untranscribed beginning 2022.
- Keyword:
- Tebul Ure, Dogon, Mali, Audio, and Recording
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Images of villages in Mali in which Tengou-Togo (Dogon family) is the primary language. Each file name contains important information about the photos, and are structured thus: LanguageFamily_Language_IdentificationNumber_GeographicCoordinate_Description_Date_InitialsOfThePhotographer
- Keyword:
- villages, Dogon, Tengou-Togo, and Mali
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Columns from left to right (omitting blanks) are: Tiranige (transcription) finder (English finder list, i.e. usually one-word glosses) recherche (finder list in French) English (full English gloss) français (full French gloss) code (for certain lexical categories: fauna, flora, body, kinship) order/family (for flora-fauna terms) species (for flora-fauna terms) synonymy (alternative or former species binomials)
- Keyword:
- Dogon and Tiranige
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Yorno So is the variety of the Toro So subgroup of the Dogon language family. It is spoken in the Yendouma village cluster along the base of cliffs on the eastern side of the Dogon (Bandiagara) plateau in east-central Mali. It is not yet completely clear whether it is best described as a dialect of Toro So (which also includes Sangha So, Ibi So, and other varieties), or as a separate language. As of May 2018 my opinion is that it is a dialect. A grammar of Yorno So was published electronically at Language Description Heritage Library in 2017. http://ldh.clld.org/2017/09/01/escidoc2326768-2/ This is backed up at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139021. An excerpt of this document that includes a transcription and an English translation of audio files texts 1-6 is included in this dataset. Texts 07, 08, and 09 have not yet been transcribed. I give permission to other linguists to transcribe, translate, and/or analyze those texts.
- Keyword:
- Toro So, Yorno So, Dogon, Audio, and Recording
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
- Discipline:
- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Bankan Tey is a Dogon language spoken in the village complex Walo (also spelled Oualo) near Douentza in central Mali. It is closely related to Ben Tey within Dogon. As of May 2018, Bankan Tey remains on my “to do” list in terms of grammatical description and texts. These recordings were made in Walo in 2011 and have not yet been transcribed although there is a fair chance I will be able to work on them in the next few years. If nothing materializes before 2022, I authorize other linguists to transcribe, translate, and/or analyse the texts. 2011 side A 2011 side B
- Keyword:
- Bankan Tey , Dogon, Recording, Audio, and Walo
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org
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- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Bunoge is a Dogon language spoken in Boudou and two neighboring villages in central Mali. These texts were recorded in the original Boudou village (perched on a peak) in 2015. The content of the texts is: 2015-01 greetings and initial conversations; 2015-02 history of Boudou, part 1; 2015-03 history of Boudou, part 2; 2015-04 farming methods; 2015-05 carts and gardening; 2015-06 farming; 2015-07 wells, road, and school; 2015-08 tale; 2015-09 tale. Heath, A grammar of Bunoge, is electronically published (2017) at Language Description Heritage Library http://ldh.clld.org/2017/03/01/escidoc2417511/ with backup copy at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/139023 DOI is 10.17617/2.2417511 At the end of the grammar are formatted transcriptions/translations of 2015-02, 2015-03, 2015-05, 2015-08, and 2015-09. The remaining texts (2015-01, 2015-04, 2015-06, and 2015-07) have not been transcribed as of May 2018. I grant permission to other scholars to transcribe, translate, and/or analyse these texts.
- Keyword:
- Bunoge Boudou, Dogon, Mali, Audio, and Recording
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org and Heath, Jeffrey. 2017. A grammar of Bunoge (Dogon, Mali). [Ann Arbor]: Univ. of Michigan. Available at https://doi.org/10.17617/2.2417511 and https://ldh.clld.org/sources/item_2417511
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- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Donno So is a Dogon language spoken over a wide area on the Dogon (Bandiagara) plateau, mainly between Bandiagara and the eastern edge of the plateau. It is also called Kamma So. A grammar was published electronically at Language Description Heritage Library in 2016: and https://ldh.clld.org/sources/item_2491630 This is backed up at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/123062 Thirteen texts were recorded digitally in Wendekele village south of Bandiagara in approximately 2015. Because of equipment problems the texts are rather faint and difficult to transcribe. Five texts were transcribed and translated, and presented at the end of the grammar volume. The correspondences are these: Published volume: text 1, Recording: DS 02, title: hare and other animals (tale); text 2, DS 09, report on trip to Burkina; text 3, DS 10, blacksmith; text 4, DS 03, squirrel and hare (tale); text 5, DS 11, Fulbe herders. Recordings DS 01(tale of stepmother), 04 (farming), 05 (construction),06 (animals), 07 (hunting), 08 (herding), 12 (marriage), and 13 (korobasinging) are not transcribed as of May 2018. I grant permission to other linguists to transcribe, translate, and/or analyse them.
- Keyword:
- Donno So, Dogon, Audio, and Recording
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org and Heath, Jeffrey. 2016. A grammar of Donno So or Kamma So. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan. Available at https://doi.org/10.17617/2.2491630 and https://ldh.clld.org/sources/item_2491630
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- Humanities
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- Creator:
- Heath, Jeffrey
- Description:
- Dogul Dom is a Dogon language spoken over a broad area on the Dogon (Bandiagara) plateau, mainly north(-west) of Bandiagara. A grammar was published electronically at Language Description Heritage Library in 2016. https://ldh.clld.org/sources/item_2326691 It is backed up at Deep Blue documents. http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/123061 Dogul Dom texts were recorded digitally at Nantanga village in 2015. Portions were transcribed and presented in the grammar as Text T01 and Text T02 Dogul Dom Nantanga 2015-01 (about 9:30 minutes), Text T01 in grammar Dogul Dom Nantanga 2015-02 (about 4:30 minutes), Text T02 in grammar
- Keyword:
- Dogul Dom, Dogon, Audio, and Recording
- Citation to related publication:
- Moran, Steven & Forkel, Robert & Heath, Jeffrey (eds.) 2016. Dogon and Bangime Linguistics. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://dogonlanguages.org and Heath, Jeffrey. 2016. A grammar of Dogul Dom (Dogon language family, Mali). Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan. Available at https://doi.org/10.17617/2.2326691 and https://ldh.clld.org/sources/item_2326691
- Discipline:
- Humanities