Antoinette Jackson (University of South Florida) gave a talk titled “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Living Communities – Curating ethnographic resources and engaging people” at the online UH Friday Anthropology seminar on 23rd October, 2020.
Abstract:
A cultural heritage perspective places priority on values and meanings that people ascribe to places, things, and ways of remembering. This talk focuses on tensions, challenges, and rewards of engaging communities in curating ethnographic resources or resources that are defined as important to a people’s sense of purpose or way of life such as museums and other structures, personal artifacts, gravesites, and cultural and natural landscapes.