Recovering Indigenous Land: Perspectives from North America
Mukpa icing sledge runners, near Arctic Bay, 1973. photo: Alex Williams
https://www.youtube.com/embed/O_F94y_UapI
Speaker: Hugh Brody
Making Maps of Knowledge - Anthropology and the history of Canadian land claims
Canada was the first country in the world to develop “cultural mapping”. This emerged in the course of what were called land claims and they drew in crucial ways on the work of anthropologists, who developed key but problematic intellectual tools in the ongoing recognition and recovery of title and rights to land. The unfolding of this mapping work went through distinct phases, each one raising question of colonial baggage, ethical challenges, remarkable levels of partnership between researchers and First Nation elders and leaders and, perhaps most important of all a vital understanding of indigenous knowledge.
Speaker bio:
Hugh Brody has worked with and for indigenous peoples for more than fifty years as an anthropologist, writer and film-maker. He has led intensive research projects and made films with communities in the Canadian Arctic, Subarctic and North Pacific coast as well as in western India and southern Africa. His books include Living Arctic, Maps And Dreams and The Other Side of Eden. He held a Canada Research Chair at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, is an Associate of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kent in Canterbury.
