- gwyneira_isaac_april_10_2013.mp3
In this talk, IPinCH Associate Gwyneira Isaac speaks about the Smithsonian initiative, Recovering Voices, designed to foster collaborations with communities around endangered languages and knowledge.
Gwyneira discusses the use of collaborative methodologies in the context of both museum work and fieldwork, the increasing incorporation of different knowledge systems in research design, as well as the critical examination of the co-production of knowledge.
Gwyneira Isaac is Curator of North American Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. Her research investigates the dynamics of and intersections between culturally specific knowledge systems. Central to this study is her fieldwork and ethnography of a tribal museum in the Pueblo of Zuni, New Mexico, where she examined challenges faced by Zunis operating between Zuni and Euro-American approaches to knowledge.
Total time: 47:24
