• for: cross-cultural dialogue - jawara and modernity,

• commentary

  • the tragedy of such myopic relationships and exploitation is that we miss the opportunity to hold cross-cultural dialogues to explore what happens when two human cultures that have developed in isolation meet for the first time.
  • the marvel of modern lights to the Jawara, and their quick embrace of it and expression of wonder is reminiscent of the chronicles of earlier European explorers/colonizers who exposed modern inventions and cultural artefacts to aboriginals many centuries earlier

"open" is variously used to describe resources (the artefacts themselves as well as access to and usage of them)

e.g. Open artefacts - as OERs and as outcomes of OEPs.