Welcome to Seattle, clean, rainy, cosmopolitan, beautiful.
I arrived in Seattle to attend the annual conference for the Society for Applied Anthropology. If anyone doesn't know, "applied" means anyone doing anthropology in contemporary situations, like myself working for the Yavapai-Apache Nation. More than that, the first two days were a Traditional Food Summit, focusing on native foods of the Northwest and other places. Right up my alley.
Yet, it wasn't all just fun and entertainment. I went with some members of the leadership Council for our Indigenous storytelling project. They were presenting on the previous years' work with the Humanities grant. We were also to meet and discuss the current and future project. I traveled with the Project Director, George (Wolf) Gumerman; E.J. Satalla, a Hopi elder; Ruby, a Hopi Elder; and Jessica Lum, Project Coordinator. There we discussed ramification of the overall project and next steps, outlined on the project blog (project for this course, link at right).
Other than the traditional food summit, which was great, the highlight of the week was a session on Digital Storytelling. Marty Otanez, an anthropologists I have known since he was a doctoral candidate, showed several digital stories from his theory class. He had each student create a digital story employing the principle elements of an anthropological theory. Here is a link to Marty's blog with several stories and some of his own work. http://www.sidewalkradio.net/ The story I would like you to view is "A Medical Gaze," but I am sending the full link because the others are of value as well.
Medical Gaze serves as a model for what we will be doing with both Centennial stories and the Indigenous stories project... In both situations we will be pairing elders with youth to tell their stories. I think this is a great example of this. Sorry if if doesn't play so good. I am trying to get a full copy.
Home again, home again. Back to work and finishing up this class.
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