TY - CHAP
T1 - Googling Indigenous Kamchatka
T2 - Mapping New Collaborations
AU - Colombi, Benedict J.
AU - Thom, Brian
AU - Degai, Tatiana
N1 - Funding Information: That partnership led, in 2013, to the first ever Indigenous mapping workshop at the University of Arizona, with two trainers from Google, one of whom was Brian Thom, a co-author on this chapter and an anthropologist at the University of Victoria, who is an expert in the Indigenous mapping methodology. Colombi also received funding from the National Science Foundation, Arctic Social Science Program to bring a delegation of Itelmen elders as well as the anthropologist David Koester to the workshop. The attendees spent several days planning how to proceed. As part of that planning, they learned the basics of how to use the software for the purposes of mapping Indigenous language as well as history and places of cultural significance, and they also discussed any traps or concerns of doing mapping with Indigenous communities, with a particular concern of doing mapping with Indigenous communities in Russia. The final topic on the agenda was a discussion of intellectual property issues, including confidentiality of historic places, sacred sites, and hunting and fishing areas. By the end of the workshop, most of the preparations had been completed for field-based work in Kamchatka in 2014. Funding Information: 1. The project described in this chapter is part of the Innovations in Ethnographic Mapping and Indigenous Cartographies project, funded by a Google Research Grant, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Insight Development Grant, with additional funding from the National Science Foundation, the Arctic Social Sciences Program, and the US Fulbright Scholar Program. Funding Information: During Colombi’s Fulbright travels, the elders commented on the importance of seeing the collections of Itelmen items housed in the museums of Saint Petersburg. Thus, Colombi sought and received funding from the University of Arizona and the National Science Foundation, Arctic Social Sciences Program to bring four f ent Itelmen speakers to Saint Petersburg to visit archived collections at two world renowned ethnographic museums: The Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology (also known as the Kunstkamera) and the National Museum of Ethnography. The Itelmen collections housed at both museums include material items of great cultural and historic significance, including Indigenous Kamchatkan items collected during the Bering I and II expeditions to Kamchatka and the Russian Far East during the rst half of the eighteenth century. The museums also house extensive field notes and photographs from earlier ethnographies, such as those of the 1920s Russian Itelmen scholar Elizaveta Orlova and the late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Russian ethnographers, Vladimr Jochelson and Vladimer Bogoraz, who worked in the Russian Far East and in Kamchatka under the direction of the anthropologist, Franz Boas. Publisher Copyright: © 2018, The Author(s).
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In 2013, the University of Arizona hosted an innovative workshop. Unlike many academic workshops, this was not a forum for academics to pontificate on their latest theory. Instead, it was a collaboration between academics and members of the Itelmen community of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The workshop was a direct result of actions by members of the Itelmen community, who were seeking ways to preserve their critically endangered language and related cultural information. This is the story of how that workshop came to be and of what happened after the workshop. It is our hope that this story will provide a model for future collaborations between academics and Indigenous communities.
AB - In 2013, the University of Arizona hosted an innovative workshop. Unlike many academic workshops, this was not a forum for academics to pontificate on their latest theory. Instead, it was a collaboration between academics and members of the Itelmen community of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. The workshop was a direct result of actions by members of the Itelmen community, who were seeking ways to preserve their critically endangered language and related cultural information. This is the story of how that workshop came to be and of what happened after the workshop. It is our hope that this story will provide a model for future collaborations between academics and Indigenous communities.
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U2 - 10.1057/978-1-137-60645-7_13
DO - 10.1057/978-1-137-60645-7_13
M3 - Chapter
T3 - Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
SP - 195
EP - 203
BT - Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -