[EVENT] Strengthening Threads, Opening Paths for Museum-Community Healing? A Wapichana Residency
26 June – 2:30 pm–4:30 pm
The British Museum, Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Free
What are European museums with ethnographic collections doing to weave and strengthen threads with communities in Latin America and the Caribbean? Thinking with histories and practices of the Wapichana – Indigenous peoples from northern Brazil and southern Guyana – and their objects held at the British Museum, this event will reflect on the conditions that have created dislocation and disconnection between museums and communities.
Artist Gustavo Caboco Wapichana and historian Roseane Cadete Wapichana – currently in residence at the Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum – will meet with Jamille Pinheiro Dias (Director, Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of London), Francesca Laura Cavallo (Founder, Brazil Footprint, University of Kent), and curators Diego Atehortúa and Magdalena Araus Sieber (SDCELAR), to discuss how colonialism and coloniality have created and perpetuated these dynamics, and consider how this current residency at the British Museum may open paths for healing relations between ethnographic museums and Indigenous communities.
* Please RSVP to sdcelar@britishmuseum.org
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Shame as a barrier to health seeking among indigenous Huichol migrant labourers: An interpretive approach of the “violence continuum” and “authoritative knowledge”
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Wixárika Practices of Medical Syncretism: An Ontological Proposal for Health in the Anthropocene
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Preventable infant deaths, lone births and lack of registration in Mexican indigenous communities: health care services and the afterlife of colonialism
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Preventable perinatal deaths in indigenous Wixárika communities: an ethnographic study of pregnancy, childbirth and structural violence BMC
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Gamlin, Jennie B. and Sarah J Hawkes (2015)
Pregnancy and birth in an Indigenous Huichol community: from structural violence to structural policy responses
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