Handle with Care: Ownership and Control of Ethnographic Materials

Fine-Dare, Kathleen S.

doi:10.1525/aa.2005.107.3.531

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“…The design of Brabec de Mori's ethnographic research on Amazonian songs is completely enmeshed with a number of returns. Restitution during ethnographic research is an ongoing practice in anthropology (Jaarsma, 2002), but due to the unequal distribution of sound technology, especially in remote regions such as large parts of Amazonia, previously only transcribed interviews, fieldnotes, written chapters, and collected material items could be shared. Because at the time Brabec de Mori could not find a public institution dedicated to safeguarding recorded music, he devised an alternative form of returning and distributing his recordings to their authors.…”

Section: Designing Return and The Nature Of Archivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Editors’ introduction to Sound “Repatriation” in South America: The Politics of Collaborative Archive Reactivations

Kummels

Koch

2023

J Latin Amer Carib Anth

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The introduction first gives insights into the state of the art of sound “repatriation” concerning the way historical and current recordings of verbal arts, music, and dance are brought back into circulation in originating communities. Sound restitution also seeks to level the epistemological divide resulting from conventional archiving. The groundbreaking, collaborative reactivations taking place in South America explored within the three articles in this journal issue are presented. External researchers and local co‐researchers join forces to create shared soundscapes on an equitable basis; they develop innovative research designs for restitution and participate in webs of collaboration that take into account the recuperation of sound traditions that expert vocalists and instrumentalists, grassroots researchers, Indigenous leaders, and cultural entrepreneurs have independently initiated. Finally, the inclusion of co‐researchers in the curatorship of museum exhibitions and the need to identify anyone who may claim rights to oratory, music, and dance is addressed.

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Section: Designing Return and The Nature Of Archivesmentioning

confidence: 99%