2-0735 INUIT MEMORIES AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTIONS: CONTEMPORARY REIFICATIONS OF THE INUIT PAST

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-21:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Sarah Merina Hazell (McGill University) and Marie-Pierre Gadoua (McGill University)

Chairs: Sean Paul Alcide Desjardins (McGill University)

Discussants: Pamela Stern (Simon Fraser University)

18:00

What Can the Ethnographic Record Tell Us about the Thule Inuit Migration?

Sarah Merina Hazell (McGill University)

18:15

Exploring Thule Inuit and Animal Relationships Using Archaeofaunas From the Eastern Arctic

Lesley Howse (University of Toronto)

18:30

Inuit Trade At the Ihatik Site: Reconstructing An Active Past Through Archaeology

Matthew Daniel Walls (University of Toronto), Peter C Dawson (University of Calgary), Luke Suluk (Inuit Heritage Trust) and Natasha Lyons (Simon Fraser University)

18:45

Retracing the Past At Richmond Gulf, Nunavik: Ethnohistory and Autobiography with Willie Kumarluk

Pierre Desrosiers (Avataq Cultural Institute)

19:00

Reconstructing Past Woodworking Practices In the Arctic: a Dialogue Between An Archaeologist and Yup'ik Traditional Carvers

Claire Alix (UMR 8096 CNRS / Université de Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)

19:15

Inuit Oral History: Traditional Knowledge and Storytelling As Tools For Cultural Tourism Development

Daniel Gendron (Avataq Cultural Institute)

19:30

Multinatural Perspectivism, Inuit Cosmology, and Human-Animal Relationships In the Canadian Arctic

Sean Paul Alcide Desjardins (McGill University)

19:45

Break

20:00

Arviq! Bowhead Whale Hunting In Hudson Strait, Arctic Canada

Susan Lofthouse (Avataq Cultural Institute)

20:15

Time and Autonomy: Negotiating the Future of the Canadian Inuit Past

Edmund Q Searles PhD (Bucknell University)

20:30

Lighting the Qulliq, Again and Again: Some Thoughts On the Legacy of Stone Oil Lamps In Contemporary Canadian Inuit Society

Beatrice Collignon PhD (University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne)

20:45

Archaeology and the Revitalization of Sugpiaq Culture On Kodiak Island, Alaska

Gordon L. Pullar (University of Alaska), Richard A. Knecht (University of Aberdeen) and Sven Haakanson (Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository)

21:00

Remembering and Recreating the Past with Ethnographic Collections: Inuit Memories and Material Selves In An Urban Museum

Marie-Pierre Gadoua (McGill University)

21:15

Discussant

Pamela Stern (Simon Fraser University)

21:30

Discussion

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