Terms of engagement: The collaborative representation of Alutiiq identity

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The book and exhibition Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People present both Alutiiq and anthropological perspectives on a complex Alaska Native ethnicity. This community-based project, produced by the Smithsonian Institution and Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak, is considered within several frames: cultural identity and revitalization in the Alutiiq region, the new paradigm of collaborative anthropology, and contrasting essentialist and constructivist models of cultural change. An Alutiiq “cultural logic” of connection to ancestors, kin, place and a provident natural environment is proposed as the basis for continuity of identity through two centuries of cultural transformation. Collaborative engagement in Indigenous heritage projects is discussed as a complex but indispensable commitment for contemporary anthropology. Le livre et l’exposition Looking Both Ways: Heritage and Identity of the Alutiiq People (Regards croisés: patrimoine et identité du peuple alutiiq) présentent une perspective à la fois alutiiq et anthropologique d’une société autochtone d’Alaska. Ce projet, fondé sur un partenariat communautaire et mené par la Smithsonian Institution et le Musée alutiiq de Kodiak, est considéré sous plusieurs angles: identité culturelle et revitalisation de la région alutiiq, nouveau paradigme de l’anthropologie en collaboration et opposition des modèles essentialistes et constructivistes du changement culturel. On propose l’existence d’une «logique culturelle» alutiiq de liens ancestraux, de parenté, de lieu et d’un milieu riche qui agissent comme fondements de la permanence de l’identité à travers deux siècles de transformations culturelles. L’entente de collaboration dans le cadre de projets sur le patrimoine autochtone est présentée comme un engagement complexe mais indispensable à l’anthropologie contemporaine.

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Crowell, A. L. (2006). Terms of engagement: The collaborative representation of Alutiiq identity. Études/Inuit/Studies, 28(1), 9–35. https://doi.org/10.7202/012637ar

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