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Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) host a lecture on a talk about traditional foods.
Arnauld Chandivert is an anthropologist at the Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier, France. During his visits to Southeast Alaska from his village in the Pyrenees mountains, he developed an interest in traditional food issues in Hoonah and Juneau.
Chandivert believes food is a living heritage connecting the past to the present; the spiritual to the everyday; people to the places they live; and islands to the mainland. His lecture “An ‘Archipelago of Connections’ and a Living Heritage,” will draw on a concept first proposed by the French philosopher Edouard Glissant. Born in the Caribbean islands, Glissant’s theory of archipelagos favors asymmetrical networks and exchanges between isolated parts of a whole. His school of thought works in direct opposition to continental thinking, which favors order and coherence.
“Continents weigh us down. They are thick and sumptuous. Archipelagos are able to diffract, they create diversity and expansiveness,” Glissant once told a Swiss historian. “Being in harmony with the world through archipelagos means inhabiting this diffraction.”
Chandivert’s talk is scheduled from noon-1 pm, Wednesday, July 1 in the Clan House on the first level of Sealaska Heritage Institute, which is located at 105 Heritage Way in downtown Juneau. Both lectures will be live streamed and available to watch on SHI’s YouTube channel.
Sealaska Heritage Institute is a tribal nonprofit founded in 1980 to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska. Its goal is to promote cross-cultural understanding through public services and events. SHI also conducts social scientific and public policy research that promotes Alaska Native arts, cultures, history and education statewide. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars, a Native Artist Committee, a Southeast Regional Language Committee and an Education Committee.
CONTACT: Kathy Dye, SHI Communications and Publications Deputy Director, 907.321.4636, kathy.dye@sealaskaheritage.com.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
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Sealaska Heritage Institute (SHI) host a lecture on a talk about traditional foods.
Arnauld Chandivert is an anthropologist at the Paul-Valéry University in Montpellier, France. During his visits to Southeast Alaska from his village in the Pyrenees mountains, he developed an interest in traditional food issues in Hoonah and Juneau.
Chandivert believes food is a living heritage connecting the past to the present; the spiritual to the everyday; people to the places they live; and islands to the mainland. His lecture “An ‘Archipelago of Connections’ and a Living Heritage,” will draw on a concept first proposed by the French philosopher Edouard Glissant. Born in the Caribbean islands, Glissant’s theory of archipelagos favors asymmetrical networks and exchanges between isolated parts of a whole. His school of thought works in direct opposition to continental thinking, which favors order and coherence.
“Continents weigh us down. They are thick and sumptuous. Archipelagos are able to diffract, they create diversity and expansiveness,” Glissant once told a Swiss historian. “Being in harmony with the world through archipelagos means inhabiting this diffraction.”
Chandivert’s talk is scheduled from noon-1 pm, Wednesday, July 1 in the Clan House on the first level of Sealaska Heritage Institute, which is located at 105 Heritage Way in downtown Juneau. Both lectures will be live streamed and available to watch on SHI’s YouTube channel.
Sealaska Heritage Institute is a tribal nonprofit founded in 1980 to perpetuate and enhance Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian cultures of Southeast Alaska. Its goal is to promote cross-cultural understanding through public services and events. SHI also conducts social scientific and public policy research that promotes Alaska Native arts, cultures, history and education statewide. The institute is governed by a Board of Trustees and guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars, a Native Artist Committee, a Southeast Regional Language Committee and an Education Committee.
CONTACT: Kathy Dye, SHI Communications and Publications Deputy Director, 907.321.4636, kathy.dye@sealaskaheritage.com.
Learn more about Sealaska Heritage here: sealaskaheritage.org
facebook.com/SHInstitute
instagram.com/shinstitute
twitter.com/SHInstitute
