Engaged anthropology, collaborative research and the Atikamekw First Nation - The University of Sydney

Engaged anthropology, collaborative research and the Atikamekw First Nation - The University of Sydney



Engaged anthropology, collaborative research and the Atikamekw First Nation
Understanding why anthropology matters
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Join Professor Sylvie Poirier as she reflects on her trajectory of engagement and collaborative research with the Atikamekw First Nation (north-central Quebec, Canada).




Professor Poirier will share how the Atikamekw made her understand that anthropology matters, as long as our engagement with Indigenous peoples is anchored in respectful, reciprocal and equitable relationships.

She will discuss collaborative research as an ongoing process of learning, exchange, and decolonization for the anthropologist and the Indigenous people.

In 1990, when the Council of the Atikamekw Nation first approached Professor Poirier to conduct research work on land rights issues, they agreed that her anthropological expertise would serve their life projects.

Since then, Professor Poirier’s engagement with them has been manifold. Early on, as an “expert” anthropologist within the arduous process of land claims negotiations, she documented the “anthropological proof” of their ancestral relationships to the land claimed.

In the early 2000s, her anthropological expertise and research funds were further utilised for exploring contemporary ways to document, valorise and transmit their knowledge systems to younger generations.

This event was held at the University of Sydney on Wednesday 14 February 2018.
Professor Sylvie Poirier

Sylvie Poirier is Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Université Laval (Quebec). She has been conducting research with Aboriginal people in the Australian Western Desert since 1980, and with the Atikamekw, a First Nation in north-central Quebec, since 1990.

She is the author of 

• A world of relationships. Itineraries, Dreams and Events in the Australian Western Desert (2005); 

co-editor (with John Clammer and Eric Schwimmer) of 

• Figured Worlds. Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations (2004);

 and 

co-editor (with Françoise Dussart) of 

• Entangled Territorialities. Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada (2017).

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Entangled Territorialities: Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada

by
Francoise Dussart (Editor),
Sylvie Poirier (Editor)

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Entangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society. Most of the entangled lands to which Indigenous peoples are connected have been physically transformed and their ecological balance destroyed. Each chapter in this volume refers to specific circumstances in which Indigenous peoples have become intertwined with non-Aboriginal institutions and projects including the construction of hydroelectric dams and open mining pits. Long after the agents of resource extraction have abandoned these lands to their fate, Indigenous peoples will continue to claim ancestral ties and responsibilities that cannot be understood by agents of capitalism. The editors and contributors to this volume develop an anthropology of entanglement to further examine the larger debates about the vexed relationships between settlers and indigenous peoples over the meaning, knowledge, and management of traditionally-owned lands. (less)





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A World of Relationships: Itineraries, Dreams, and Events in the Australian Western Desert (Paperback)

Sylvie Poirier


Published by University of Toronto Press, Canada (2005)

ISBN 10: 0802084141ISBN 13: 9780802084149
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About this Item: University of Toronto Press, Canada, 2005. Paperback. Condition: New. 2nd ed. Language: English. Brand new Book. 

A World of Relationships is an ethnographical account and anthropological study of the cultural use and social potential of dreams among Aboriginal groups of the Australian Western Desert. The outcome of fieldwork conducted in the area in the 1980s and 90s, it was originally published in French as Les jardins du nomade: Cosmologie, territoire et personne dans le d sert occidental australien. In her study, Sylvie Poirier explores the contemporary Aboriginal system of knowledge and law through an analysis of the relationships between the ancestral order, the 'sentient' land, and human agencies. At the ethnographical and analytical levels, particular attention is given to a range of local narratives and stories, and to the cultural construction of individual experiences. Poirier also investigates the cultural system of dreams and dreaming, and the process of their socialization, analysing their ideological, semantic, pragmatic, and experiential dimensions.Through the synthesis of a complex and diverse range of theoretical and empirical materials, A World of Relationships offers new insights into Australian Aboriginal sociality, historicity, and dynamics of cultural change and ritual innovation. 

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