{"id":1647,"date":"2019-08-09T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2019-08-09T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T18:40:34","slug":"archnet-marks-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-august-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2019\/08\/09\/archnet-marks-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-peoples-august-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Archnet marks International Day of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples, August 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1649 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/Indigenous-Peoples-Day-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/Indigenous-Peoples-Day-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/Indigenous-Peoples-Day-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/Indigenous-Peoples-Day-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/Indigenous-Peoples-Day-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/Indigenous-Peoples-Day-624x624.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/Indigenous-Peoples-Day.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>To mark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/indigenousday\/\">International Day of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples<\/a> on August 9, Archnet is highlighting the architecture of indigenous people.\u00a0 The background images on the site are photographs of the <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/sites\/4978\">Amin Mosque<\/a>, a Uyghur mosque built in the 18th century in northwest China; and a street in the Old Town of <a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/3669\">Ghadames<\/a>, an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Libya. Click the images and text on the homepage tiles to learn about more resources devoted to the theme.<\/p>\n<p>There is also <a href=\"http:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1706\">an Archnet collection<\/a> that gathers select resources focusing on manifestations of indigenous culture and vernacular building techniques, as well a broader issues of cultural diversity, particularly as they relate to Muslim communities.\u00a0 Just click &#8220;View the Collection&#8221; to explore.<\/p>\n<p>International Day of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples has been marked annually since 1982. According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unesco.org\/new\/en\/indigenous-peoples\/single-view-indigenous-peoples\/news\/unesco_message_for_the_international_day_of_the_worlds_in-3\/\">message from UNESCO<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Indigenous persons&#8230;face a number of considerable challenges, including growing migration, educational disadvantage, pressure to culturally assimilate, enforced relocation, gender-based violence and other forms of discrimination, poverty, as well as limited access to health services, employment, information services and broadband connectivity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dome.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.3\/45936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1653\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/My-Post-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/My-Post-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/My-Post-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/My-Post-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/My-Post-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2019\/08\/My-Post.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark International Day of the World&#8217;s Indigenous Peoples on August 9, Archnet is highlighting the architecture of indigenous people.\u00a0 The background images on the site are photographs of the Amin Mosque, a Uyghur mosque built in the 18th century in northwest China; and a street in the Old Town of Ghadames, an oasis town on the edge of the Sahara Desert in Libya. Click the images and text on the homepage tiles to learn about more resources devoted to the theme. There is also an Archnet collection that gathers select resources focusing on manifestations of indigenous culture and vernacular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268,269],"tags":[320,326,356,358,406,513,522],"class_list":["post-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-archnet-news","tag-archnet","tag-archnet-updates","tag-cultural-diversity","tag-cultural-heritage","tag-indigenous-people","tag-un-events","tag-vernacular-architecture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1655,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}