Seeds for the Future: The Materialities of Traditional Ecological Knowledge

Kasper, Kimberly

doi:10.1007/s11759-012-9217-9

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“…Survivance Stories, Co-Creation, and a Participatory Model at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum (cont. ) Recently, that extensive dataset was systematically organized and reanalyzed over several years as part of a dissertation project completed in 2013 (Kasper 2012(Kasper , 2013. The goal of that work was to investigate how the archaeobotanical record can be used to deepen our understandings of Mashantucket Pequot reservation life.…”

Section: The Potential Of a Co-creation Process: Modeling Another Kinmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 2008, that kind of work started when necessarily intertwined projects in research and exhibition began to explore Pequot survivance, seeking to illuminate its complexly layered histories of resistant accommodations, persistent traditions, and creative adaptations. Represented today by published studies (Handsman 2012a, 2013a; Kasper 2012;Mancini 2012), the survivance initiative critically challenges and deconstructs a "change-andcontinuity" paradigm (Silliman 2009) by connecting the tribal community to an ongoing history of modernity. In that history, Mashantucket Pequot families constantly engaged with larger economic, political, and ideological worlds.…”

Section: Emerging Contact Zones At the Mashantucket Pequot Museummentioning

confidence: 99%

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Survivance Stories, Co-Creation, and a Participatory Model at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center

Kasper

Handsman

2015

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Since opening its doors in 1998, the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (MPMRC) has had an identity as both a tribal center and a museum committed to challenging the public’s conventional understandings of Native history in New England. Over a 15-year period, museum staff and the tribal community learned to work more collaboratively in an effort to document and illuminate Pequot survivance—the histories of Mashantucket families living and working in and against the modern world. A review of recent museum projects clarifies the benefits of collaboration while revealing how new exhibits and programs are impacting visitor experiences and understandings. Another kind of museum space is envisioned in which visitors, staff, and tribal members actively co-create exhibits and programs centered on Pequot survivance, using content informed by ongoing archaeological studies. In that space, co-creation practices would encourage social interaction—a collaborative pushing-and-pulling of ideas and stories in a shared search for new understandings of survivance at Mashantucket and beyond.

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Section: The Potential Of a Co-creation Process: Modeling Another Kinmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Emerging Contact Zones At the Mashantucket Pequot Museummentioning

confidence: 99%