Common Culture · Shoutouts
Name the person. Leave the credit there.
A shoutout is not a list we invent. It is someone already in the work, named the way the field note names them.
Irula elder
Mariyappan
He learned a building technique from the generations before him. For decades it stayed in his memory. He was asked to use it again. The technique is his lineage’s. The organisation’s part was to ask, to make room, and to write that down.
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