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You've landed on the page of Dr. David Delgado Shorter, professor at UCLA.
Dr. Shorter's first book, We Will Dance Our Truth, evolves from decades of learning about indigenous lifeways, primarily among the Yoeme communities in northwest Mexico.
His research website, Vachiam Eecha/Planting the Seeds, was the first ethnographic website built in collaboration with Yoeme people from various pueblos. Originally designed and "published" in 2003, this site was edited and updated into a second edition in 2012. With support from the National Science Foundation, he has filmed tribal rituals pertaining to both collective and individual healing.
Dr. Shorter's work explores other-than-human relations and the myths and rituals of native people around the globe. At UCLA, his course on Tribal Worldviews introduces students to these life ways particularly within the lens of globalization and development projects.
In 2011, he received three grants enabling him to start his most recent research, learning from a powerful healer from the tribe in Mexico where he has worked since the early 90's.
Among his favorite classes to teach at UCLA are "Tribal Worldviews," “Ethnographies of/as Colonialism,” "The Art of Being Human: Living the Philosophy of Martin Buber," and "Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts."
Dr. Shorter is currently completing two new digital publications based on his continuing fieldwork with the Yoeme tribal members in Mexico and the United States. Please see the "News!" page to read about his language revitalization work. Shorter also co-edits (with Dr. Randolph Lewis) a book series on Indigenous film and film-making. In the summer of 2013, he will release his documentary film, "Cutting the Cord." And over the next year, he will be compiling his personal experiences with paranormal studies into a book-length memoir, which should be available in 2014.
Dr. Shorter's first book, We Will Dance Our Truth, evolves from decades of learning about indigenous lifeways, primarily among the Yoeme communities in northwest Mexico.
His research website, Vachiam Eecha/Planting the Seeds, was the first ethnographic website built in collaboration with Yoeme people from various pueblos. Originally designed and "published" in 2003, this site was edited and updated into a second edition in 2012. With support from the National Science Foundation, he has filmed tribal rituals pertaining to both collective and individual healing.
Dr. Shorter's work explores other-than-human relations and the myths and rituals of native people around the globe. At UCLA, his course on Tribal Worldviews introduces students to these life ways particularly within the lens of globalization and development projects.
In 2011, he received three grants enabling him to start his most recent research, learning from a powerful healer from the tribe in Mexico where he has worked since the early 90's.
Among his favorite classes to teach at UCLA are "Tribal Worldviews," “Ethnographies of/as Colonialism,” "The Art of Being Human: Living the Philosophy of Martin Buber," and "Aliens, Psychics, and Ghosts."
Dr. Shorter is currently completing two new digital publications based on his continuing fieldwork with the Yoeme tribal members in Mexico and the United States. Please see the "News!" page to read about his language revitalization work. Shorter also co-edits (with Dr. Randolph Lewis) a book series on Indigenous film and film-making. In the summer of 2013, he will release his documentary film, "Cutting the Cord." And over the next year, he will be compiling his personal experiences with paranormal studies into a book-length memoir, which should be available in 2014.
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