Community-Partnered Repatriation of Inupiat Music

社区合作遣返因纽特音乐

• 批准号: 0939905
• 负责人: Aaron Fox
• 金额: $ 13.62万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-07-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0939905&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Community; Partnered; Repatriation; Inupiat; Music

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University holds valuable recordings of traditional Iñupiat (Native Alaskan) music recorded in Barrow, Alaska by collector Laura Boulton in 1946. Co-PIs Fox and Dr. Sakakibara are working with Iñupiat community leaders, elders, and educators in Barrow, Alaska to "repatriate" these recordings (and an associated set of photographs held by Indiana University's Archive of Traditional Music), and to collect oral historical important information about the recordings (and an associated set of recently-discovered photographs taken during Boulton's expedition and currently belonging to Indiana University's Archive of Traditional Music). By conducting systematic oral historical interviews with elders and community leaders concerning the contents, significance, and proper future management of the recordings and photographs, the research team is working to make these materials useful and accessible for contemporary Iñupiat musicians and dancers, for Iñupiat language and culture educators, for descendants of the original performers on the recordings, for the broader community, as well as for scholars of Inuit history and culture, under terms acceptable to all parties.Specifically, through this "community partnered" repatriation work, the research team is working with Iñupiat consultants to develop contemporary applications for these recordings through the creation of a secure and publicly accessible digital resource that will embed the original recordings and photographs in a rich explanatory context reflective of Iñupiat cultural values; they are helping community-based music and dance performance groups to develop repertoires based on these recordings (and to explore other archival collections); they are consulting with leading Iñupiaq educators to develop language-teaching applications for the materials; and they are working with the Iñupiat Heritage, Language, and Culture Commission and colleagues to use this project to model the community's longer-term archiving needs for other valuable heritage materials in other archives and personal collections. Importantly, the research team is documenting the project itself through observation of the effects of our reintroduction of this music into the community. This project is a model for a new, experimental, approach to "repatriation" of Native cultural heritage resources. By explicitly testing what the team proposes are innovative best practices for collaborative repatriation projects that benefit both Native communities and social scientists who work with these communities, they hope to demonstrate ways of handling the thousands of similar scholarly collections of Native cultural resources in archives and museums in the United States, many of which have not been repatriated at all in part due to what often appear to be intractable challenges inherent in the historical status of such archives and the emergent ethical and legal climate in which their repatriation must now occur. In addition to community-developed resources, the research will result in scholarly articles and a book intended to explore the implications of the project for archivists, scholars, and Native communities alike.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。哥伦比亚大学民族音乐学中心拥有收藏家劳拉·博尔顿于1946年在阿拉斯加州巴罗录制的传统伊努皮亚特（阿拉斯加土著）音乐的珍贵录音。福克斯和Sakakibara博士正在与阿拉斯加州巴罗的Iñupiat社区领导人、长老和教育工作者合作，“遣返”这些录音（以及由印第安纳州大学传统音乐档案馆保存的一组相关照片），并收集有关录音的口述历史重要信息（以及一组最近发现的博尔顿探险期间拍摄的相关照片，目前属于印第安纳州大学传统音乐档案馆）。通过与长老和社区领导人就录音和照片的内容、意义和未来的适当管理进行系统的口述历史访谈，研究小组正在努力使这些材料对当代伊努皮亚特音乐家和舞蹈家、伊努皮亚特语言和文化教育工作者、录音中原始表演者的后代、更广泛的社区、以及因纽特人历史和文化的学者，在各方都能接受的条件下。具体来说，通过这种“社区合作”的遣返工作，研究小组正在与Iñupiat的顾问合作，通过创建一个安全的、可公开访问的数字资源，将原始录音和照片嵌入到丰富的解释性文件中，为这些录音开发现代应用程序。894&;他们正在帮助社区音乐和舞蹈表演团体根据这些录音制作剧目（并探索其他档案收藏）;他们正在与伊努皮亚克的主要教育工作者协商，以开发这些材料的语言教学应用程序;他们正在与伊努皮亚特遗产，语言，和文化委员会和同事们利用这个项目来模拟社区的长期-长期存档需要其他档案馆和个人收藏的其他宝贵遗产材料。 重要的是，研究小组正在通过观察我们将这种音乐重新引入社区的影响来记录项目本身。该项目是一个新的、试验性的土著文化遗产资源“归还”办法的典范。通过明确测试该团队提出的合作遣返项目的创新最佳实践，使土著社区和与这些社区合作的社会科学家受益，他们希望展示如何处理美国档案馆和博物馆中数千件类似的土著文化资源学术收藏，其中许多人根本没有被遣返，部分原因是这些档案的历史地位所固有的挑战往往似乎是棘手的，而且现在必须在新出现的道德和法律的环境中遣返这些档案。 除了社区开发的资源外，这项研究还将产生学术文章和一本书，旨在探讨该项目对档案管理员，学者和土著社区的影响。