This is a past event
Anthropology Research Seminar - 5 November 2015 in Edward Wright F61, 3-5pm given by Dr Alex King.
Dr King will present an initial analysis of a documentation project that is 20 years in the making. Funded by a large project grant from the Endangered Language Documentation Programme in 2012, he worked together with Valentina Dedyk to record the last generation of fully fluent speakers of Koryak during an intensive expedition in February and March of 2013.
The project combines elements of Russian anthropology, with its heritage of broad surveys covering large areas in a short time with elements of Anglo-American anthropology and its emphasis on long-term participant observation.
Many of the speakers recorded were well known to either Dedyk or King or both of them.
Many others were completely new acquaintances, but their familiarity with the communities provided them with strategies for quickly connecting to them on empathetic terms.
After introducing Dedyk’s and King’s separate experiences that formed the backdrop to this project, he discusses several elders recorded as illustrative case studies.
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- Dr Alex King