Naretha,

I just read your draft paper "My Journey of Awareness" and think it is  
a brilliant and a most superb example of auto-poietic autoethnography.  
  There are small language editing issues that you will have to look  
into do, particularly p.11: for example: belief not believe and you do  
not need the 'This' in 'This Whitehead refers to...'.  You should also  
not use citation marks in inverted citations in the text.  Like you, I  
am not a native English speaker.  You will have to ask a native  
English speaker for help in editing this superb paper.

I think you have gone a lot further than Jack, Jean and LET.  In my  
PhD http://www.actionresearch.net/living/serper.shtml I criticised  
Jack and LET for focusing on epistemology rather than on ontology and  
not giving ontology the focus and respect it deserves.  I called LET a  
traditional positivistic approach because of this.  I think that your  
paper proves that I was right.

I think your paper shows my point very clearly.  It is a superb  
illustration of an autoethnography that is both profoundly ontological  
and epistemological.  I gained new knowledge of the culture in  
question, of gender, socio-cultural and socio-political issues that  
are of interest to me and of you - as a person.  You gave me real  
insight into the ontological meaning of the propositional abstraction  
of a Calvinist, Afrikaner woman.  Superb. JUST SUPERB.

Embodied or tacit/personal knowledge is adapted and cited by Jack from  
Michael Polany's work and In would add Dreifus' work.  Merleu Ponty  
and Shanon discussed the embodied as well.  You should cite Polanyi  
alongside Jack and at the very least read Jack's referal to Polanyi in  
his 1985 chapter. I refer to this in my own PhD thesis. Polanyi is  
also much more known than Jack in Philosophy and Philosophy of Science  
especially.


Well done Naretha for a superb paper.  Well done indeed.

Very highly recommended reading and source for the autoethnography  
method and methodological tool/approach and here it is

http://narethapretorius.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/pretorius_journey-of-awareness_draftoct2010.pdf

Joan Conolly,

Re- the citation to your work by Naretha

Memories are problematic.  There is much research on false memories  
that are wholly unreliable.  You may wish to look into it.

Quoting naretha pretorius <[log in to unmask]>:

> Dear all,
>
> Thank you Jack for sharing my story with everyone.
> I will soon load my catalogue in digital format on my blog for you to read
> (and comment on).
>
> I do have a few hard copies available as well for those that enjoy holding a
> book in their hands instead of looking at it on screen.
>
> Let's remember our past so that we can understand our present and so that we
> will know where we are going...
> Naretha
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Jack Whitehead   
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 18 Jul 2011, at 16:51, Delysia Norelle Timm wrote:
>>
>> Thank you so much jack for your 67 minute contribution which has challenged
>> us as an institution to live the Mandela and NOT THE ANC values out each
>> day?.****
>> Your contribution was very well received by all.****
>> delysia****
>>
>>
>> Dear Delysia, Marie and All (welcome to Rosh Sunder and Wendy Schultz from
>> Durban University of Technology and Tim O'Riordan from the University of
>> Bristol)   -
>>
>> I did enjoy the comment in the workshop on Mandela Day (18th July) that
>> every day should be a Mandela Day. This was said in the spirit that we
>> should seek to live every day the values associated with Nelson Mandela that
>> carry hope for the future of humanity.
>>
>> I've just accessed Naretha Pretorious' art exhibition and narrative at:
>>
>> http://narethapretorius.wordpress.com/
>>
>> Naretha uses her art, images and poetry in her work entitled 'Onthaal
>> Onthul'  which begins with a quote from Marcel Jousse -  'The story of my
>> Work is that of my Life. The Story of my Life is that of my Work'. I do hope
>> that you will access Naretha's work - it is being integrated within her
>> masters dissertation. Naretha says this of her exhibition ".... this
>> exhibition extends beyond my personal, social and domestic experiences into
>> the larger socio-cultural fabric which contextualised my childhood and young
>> adulthood'.
>>
>> Here is one of the beginning stanzas:
>>
>> "In Afrikaans we speak of our forefathers,
>> but our foremothers are
>> equally important.
>> In my  mother tongue,
>> the notion of 'foremother' is not recognised.
>> Instead, we refer to our forefathers and ancestors.
>> The exhibition is done with special gratitude for my foremothers."
>>
>>
>> Love Jack.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>