Anthropology Colloquium is the department’s speaker series that invites a mixture of anthropologists from within and outside of UBC to present their research. This speaker series is scheduled throughout the academic year, typically with a lunch reception in the AnSo Lounge.
Reverse Ethnography: Strategies for Recovering from Anthropological Search and Rescue
Thursday November 28, 2019
ANSO 134
5:00-6:30 pm
Event Poster: PDF
Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac
Abstract:
Seemingly routine practices of collection and display have created artificial separations among Indigenous peoples, objects, and stories; restorative decolonizing research is, therefore, crucial in any efforts toward recovery and reconciliation.
About the speaker:
Dr. Margaret M. Bruchac, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Coordinator of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, is the director of “The Wampum Trail” research project and author of “Savage Kin: Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists” (University of Arizona Press 2018).
