Mediating Knowledges: Zuni Negotiations for a Culturally Relevant Museum

Isaac, Gwyneira

doi:10.1525/mua.2005.28.1.3

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“…The fundamental premise for understanding conceptual frameworks like TEK is that cultural diversity around the world has resulted in a plurality of knowledge systems, each with their own distinct environmental and cultural contexts, as well as specific social mechanisms for the production and transmission of this knowledge. While the idea of different knowledge systems largely emerged out of the discipline of anthropology (Barnhardt 2005; Barth 2002; Geertz 1983; Hansen 1982; Hardesty 1977; Isaac 2005, 2007; Morphy 1991; Sillitoe 1998; Yarrow 2008) and cognitive science (Abelson 1979), it has found traction and proliferation in interdisciplinary environmental studies (Maldonado et al. 2015).…”

Section: Background: Cultural Plurality and Environmental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Native American Perspectives on Health and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Isaac

Finn

Joe

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Environ Health Perspect

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Background: Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is a conceptual framework that highlights Indigenous knowledge (IK) systems. Although scientific literature has noted the relevance of TEK for environmental research since the 1980s, little attention has been given to how Native American (NA) scholars engage with it to shape tribal-based research on health, nor how non-Native scholars can coordinate their approaches with TEK. This coordination is of particular importance for environmental health sciences (EHS) research exploring interdisciplinary approaches and the integration of environmental and human health. Objective: Our perspective on TEK arose from a series of Health and Culture Research Group (HCRG) workshops that identified gaps in existing EHS methodologies that are based on a reliance on Euro-American concepts for assessing environmental exposures in tribal communities. These prior methods neither take into account cultural behavior nor community responses to these. Our objective is to consider NA perspectives on TEK when analyzing relationships between health and the environment and to look at how these may be applied to address this gap. Discussion: The authors—the majority of whom are NA scholars—highlight two research areas that consider health from a TEK perspective: food systems and knowledge of medicinal plants. This research has yielded data, methods, and knowledge that have helped Indigenous communities better define and reduce health risks and protect local natural food resources, and this TEK approach may prove of value to EHS research. Conclusion: NA perspectives on TEK resulting from the HCRG workshops provide an opportunity for developing more accurate Indigenous health indicators (IHI) reflecting the conceptualizations of health maintained in these communities. This approach has the potential to bridge the scientific study of exposure with methods addressing a tribal perspective on the sociocultural determinants of health, identifying potential new areas of inquiry in EHS that afford nuanced evaluations of exposures and outcomes in tribal communities. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1944

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Section: Background: Cultural Plurality and Environmental Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

Native American Perspectives on Health and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

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Joe

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Environ Health Perspect

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“…Although aptly illustrating the ambiguity of presentations of the past, Swain (2007) notes that the figure "comes across as a rather badly dressed 1980s shop dummy" (p. 214). Interpreting people of the past also raises complex issues regarding representation and the role of living communities in controlling, framing, and interpreting their own pasts (e.g., Ames 1991Ames , 1992ColwellChanthaphonh & Ferguson 2006;Hendry 2005;Isaac 2005;Karp et al 1992;Kuklick 1991;Lawlor 2006;Levy 2006;Simpson 2007;Sleeper-Smith 2009; see also Peers 2007).…”

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Exhibiting Archaeology: Archaeology and Museums

Barker¹

2010

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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From their beginnings, archaeology museums have reflected a complex and dynamic balance between the demands of developing, documenting, and preserving objects on the one hand and sharing knowledge, access, and control on the other. This balance has informed and inflected the ways that museums present the past, including both practical aspects of pedagogy and exhibition design as well as more critical and contested issues of authority, authenticity, and reflexivity in interpretation. Meeting the complex requirements of curation, deliberate collections growth, management, and conservation, as well as the need to respond to continuing challenges to the museum's right and title to hold various forms of cultural property, archaeological museums play an active role in both preserving and shaping the public's view of the past and reflect the prospects and perils of being at once a temple to the muses and a forum for sometimes contentious public discourse. 293 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2010.39:293-308. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org by Stanford University -Main Campus -Lane Medical Library on 09/28/12. For personal use only.

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“…As one way to do this, he proposes that archaeologists better integrate oral traditions into such management programs (Dowdall and Parrish, 2002). Isaac (2005) addresses this issue in the creation of culturally relevant museum exhibits on the Pueblo of Zuni that balance public and private knowledge using oral traditions and pertinent photographs. As discussed above, historic photographs of culturally meaningful places allow connections between landscapes and people to be rebuilt, sometimes literally, and strengthened by engaging the emotive aspects and storied histories of places, as recalled through the memories and oral traditions of the people closely tied to the place.…”

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The role of archived photographs in Native California archaeology

Schneider

2007

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Archived photographs are discussed as a proven and principal means to understand cultural landscapes and the archaeological sites within. Photographs offer one means to include the voices and oral traditions of Native American descendent communities in an archaeological project by emphasizing the visceral ties between places and the people who created them. As artifacts, archived photographs act as touchstones to generate stories about people and places. They are capable of solidifying ties between people and ancestral territories, and their ability to engage Native Americans and other audiences in interpretive settings suggests their role as teaching devices. These three roles of archived photographs complement an indigenous archaeology by involving and empowering Native American communities, integrating oral traditions, and fostering a sense of site stewardship.

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Mediating Knowledges: Zuni Negotiations for a Culturally Relevant Museum

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Native American Perspectives on Health and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Native American Perspectives on Health and Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Exhibiting Archaeology: Archaeology and Museums

The role of archived photographs in Native California archaeology

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