denial of legitimacy of oral history by colonial forces
print culture underpinning scholarly authority
indigenous methods of knowing, sharing, etc
a fixed, static form
knowledge singularly authored
recognition by institutions dependent on a lot of culturally specific ways of being
access to texts and databases and resources
a scholar as someone who interprets the world for others
in extracting certain information there is already so much removed, and in printing in text it is further decontextualised
narratives are messy in reality, representing complexity in ‘legible’ form requires constant reflection in who it is legible for and what it means to untangle it in this way