Last month members of the Inuvialuit Living History Project team called in from Inuvik, Vancouver Island, and the Interior of BC to talk about our collaborative development of the Inuvialuit Living History website and our trip to the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. This was a fun and productive opportunity for our team to have a […]
I was born and raised in the town of Bandung, in the island of Java, Indonesia. I immigrated to the United States in my early twenties and then moved to Vancouver in 2007. As an immigrant I often find myself torn between the two contrasting cultures. This was partly one of the reasons that encouraged […]
Congratulations to Irine Prastio, an MA candidate in the Making Culture Lab. She has been named a 2013 Graduate Fellow for the IPinCH (Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage) Project. IPinCH is described (on their website) as “an international collaboration of archaeologists, Indigenous organizations, lawyers, anthropologists, ethicists, policy makers, and others working to explore and […]
Our article about collaborative work on the Inuvialuit Living History Project was recently published in a special issue of the Society for American Archaeology’s SAA Archaeological Record. The issue features case studies of international collaborations with Aboriginal communities, and we were honored to be a part of this effort. There was a very strong set […]
Our Inuvialuit Living History Project team is happy to announce the official launch of our virtual exhibit Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History – www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca. We see this launch as only the beginning, as the intent of the project is to build an archive of knowledge of the collection and to show how these objects […]
A paper titled “Virtual Repatriation and the Application Programming Interface: From the Smithsonian Institution’s MacFarlane Collection to “Inuvialuit Living History” that I co-authored with Ryan Wallace and Nicholas Jakobsen, Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, and Charles Arnold, from the University of Calgary, Canada, has just been published on the Museums and […]
Next week I will travel with my Inuvialuit Living History Project colleague and collaborator Mervin Joe to Washington D.C. to participate in an exciting workshop called “After the Return: Digital Repatriation and the Circulation of Indigenous Knowledge”. Organized by Kim Christen (Washington State U), Josh Bell (Smithsonian Institution), and Mark Turin (Cambridge and Yale), the […]
In November I presented a paper at the Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Montréal, QC. Our session was entitled “Digital Anthropology: Projects and Projections”, and was organized by Mike Fortun and Kim Fortun of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This was an exciting session to be a part of, and included: Jason Jackson (Indiana), […]
In June 2011 I traveled north to Inuvik, where I spent a week working with my colleagues Mervin Joe (Parks Canada) and Catherine Cockney (Manager, Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre) to conduct consultations with local partners, community members, elders, and school children and teachers about the prototype of our work in progress, the Inuvialuit Living History […]