In this episode, Robin R. R. Gray, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at UMass Amherst, discusses her community-based participatory action project to repatriate a collection of Tsimshian sound recordings back to her community.
She asks, 鈥淲hat are the motivations, possibilities, and obstacles associated with reclaiming tangible and intangible heritage?鈥�
鈥淲hen we talk about cultural heritage we鈥檙e talking about something that is an expression鈥xpressions of ancestral knowledge systems that are the responsibility of the people from that culture.鈥�
Robin鈥檚 research responds to community identified needs and celebrates the resistance and resilience of Indigenous peoples to survive and thrive in the face of direct colonial threat and imposition. Robin is an IPinCH Fellow and the Student Representative on the IPinCH Steering Committee. Check out Robin鈥檚 IPinCH profile for more on her work.
Video produced by Alexa Walker and Aynur Kadir (filmed in Oct 2013). Music courtesy of Mique'l and Mike Dangeli of the .
Related Links
- IPinCH Community Initiatives
- Community-Based Cultural Heritage Research (Research Theme)
- Indigenous Research Ethics (Research Theme)