Regions: Inuvialuit Settlement Region
Tags: museum, social sciences, anthropology, traditional knowledge, elders, artifacts
| Principal Investigator: | Balanoff, Helen (5) |
| Licence Number: | 15102 |
| Organization: | NWT Literacy Council |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2012
2007
2007
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| Issued: | Jun 22, 2012 |
| Project Team: | Helen Balanoff, Jeremy Flatt, Dr. Cynthia Chambers, Emily Kudlak, Alice Kaodloak, Emily Angulalik, Darren Keith, Joanne Bird, Dr. Jonathan King |
Objective(s): To repatriate traditional knowledge (language, literacies, narratives, values and beliefs) through viewing and visiting “things that talk” (historical photographs and objects) currently in the British Museum in London, England.
Project Description: Through a partnership of Inuinnait communities and the British Museum, this project aims to repatriate traditional knowledge (language, literacies, narratives, values and beliefs) through viewing and visiting “things that talk” (historical photographs and objects) currently in the British Museum in London, England. This project involves visual repatriation of traditional knowledge through historical photographs and photographs of cultural materials. Elders will be interviewed and results translated and transcribed. A database will be developed that will enable people in all communities to share knowledge. Biographies of cultural materials will be constructed. Selected cultural material will be reproduced through an elder/apprenticeship process. Community gatherings will be used to share and add to he knowledge. A shared database will enable people in all Inuinnait (and Inuvialuit) communities to share knowledge. In Ulukhaktok, after initial interviews with elders have been conducted, photographs will be displayed in the community and people invited to add to the knowledge. Photographs and stories will be the property of the community and will be displayed in the community. Materials reproduced in the community will be the property of the community and displayed in the community. Community based researchers will attend community meetings on a regular basis to report on progress. They will also deliver presentations on the project. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from January 25, 2012 to December 31, 2012.
