Stitching Skins, Filming Lives: Inuit Hunting Families Today

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
Contact

scc.events@abdn.ac.uk