Stitching Skins, Filming Lives: Inuit Hunting Families Today
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This is a past event
This talk is based on Dr Wachowich's recent anthropological fieldwork in an Inuit community, Mittimatalik, (Pond Inlet), in Canada's Eastern High Arctic.
During a recent fieldtrip in Canada's Eastern High Arctic, Dr Wachowich worked collaboratively with seamstresses and filmmakers, to explore the ways in which women’s skills are fostered, maintained, and communicated between generations. They focussed on indigenous techniques for seal skin processing and garment making
In this talk, Dr Wachowich will use film-clips and photographs to reflect on the relevance of these creative practices in the lives of Inuit hunting families today.
Free admission but booking advisable.
- Speaker
- Dr Nancy Wachowich
- Hosted by
- Special Collections Centre
- Venue
- The Special Collections Centre Seminar Room, Lower Ground Floor, The Sir Duncan Rice Library
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