In this talk, Anna Mossolova will discuss what this can mean in practice and how Indigenous and non-Indigenous research partners can create space and conditions for such engagements that make archaeological heritage part of a living community while respecting multiple truths about the past.
This discussion is supported by a series of art workshops conducted with Indigenous artists and community members in Quinhagak, Alaska in 2023-2024. Mossolova will share how these workshops have been helping Quinhagak residents of all ages to unfold the pedagogical, spiritual, and cathartic potential of archaeological heritage.
Biography
Anna Mossolova is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo. She has been trained as cultural anthropologist and has been working on community-based projects in Alaska for ten years. Her current research focuses on the reclamation and reinstallation of cultural heritage returned to descendant communities. Advocating for multivocality and decolonising research practices, her postdoctoral project has been exploring collaborative and arts-based methods of knowledge co-production and dissemination informed by Indigenous knowledge systems and traditions.
Mossolova’s project ‘Collab4Multi’ has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project nr. 101063760.