Mittwoch, 13. November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal
Wednesday Seminar
"Mission Almost Impossible": Doing Collaborative Anthropology with Indigenous Peoples in Russia under an Autoritarian Regime at War (Stephan Dudeck, University of Lapland)
Übungsraum IKSA (NIG, 4. Stock) - hybrid event
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Vortrag
This presentation will draw on my own experience of research collaboration with Indigenous partners in Western Siberia over several decades to reflect on the ethics and methods of collaborative anthropological research, illustrated by examples of collaboration in the field of cultural heritage conservation. In the first case, I analyse a specific bear ceremony on the territory of the Eastern Khanty in 2016. The bear festival of the Ob-Ugrians, Khanty and Mansi is considered a key representation of local indigenous ontologies, but it has also become a symbol of heritage preservation by state actors and a cultural commodity for local tourism and media. The project demonstrated how research principles can be derived from the ethics of the ceremony itself, and under what conditions and by what means knowledge should be transmitted. The Khanty Bear Festival also demonstrates how new and hybrid forms of knowledge transfer can be created through collaboration between activists, researchers, and media artists. In the second example I would like to talk about the co-creation of the relevance of cultural artefacts and techniques through a current project on the digital exchange of artefacts from the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Bordeaux and Khanty traditional knowledge. The latter project, however, also raises difficult questions about collaboration under conditions of war propaganda and persecution of dissent. In particular, it remains a challenge to find ways of jointly managing risk and opportunities for communication and reciprocity. Both projects reflect on research relationships and how they transcend the relationships between individual research partners. They also highlight the role of time as a factor in solidary and collaborative research.
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Veranstalter
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Kontakt
Hanna Vietze
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
+431427749565
hanna.vietze@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2024, 11:05
Letzte Änderung am Donnerstag, 31. Oktober 2024, 11:56