The Contact Zone: Hybridity Simulator

Examines Native American ethnographic texts and the literature of early European exploration. The Contact Zone: Hybridity Simulator turns that idea into something you can manipulate directly and watch respond.

Examines Native American ethnographic texts and the literature of early European exploration. It focuses on Native American Texts, Contact Literature, The Requerimiento, Ethnographic Texts from the “Pre-contact and Colonial Encounters” section.

The “Indigenous Orality”, “Colonial Framing” sliders change the key inputs. Every change updates the visualization in real time, so you can see exactly how each variable affects the outcome.

This course provides a comprehensive exploration of literature as an art form and an intellectual discipline, emphasizing the development of literacy and critical thinking skills. Students will survey global literary tr… This demo is the interactive piece for the “Pre-contact and Colonial Encounters” section. Open the full Literature and Literacy course wiki at https://www.getlykke.com/explore/public/literature-and-literacy-a0828b3b-a6ea-4412-ba89-06697f45047c for notes, flashcards, quizzes and the other demos.

You'll build intuition for Native American Texts, Contact Literature, The Requerimiento, Ethnographic Texts — and, crucially, see how they behave when you change the inputs, which is hard to get from a textbook or lecture on Literature and Literacy alone.