Pasefika Identities: How Museums Can Start Conversations Around Identity through Collections and Education
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
16-5-2021
End Date
22-5-2021
Abstract
Inspired by previous internships and community work within the PNW, this presentation analyzes the way in which museums serve as a point to facilitate conversations around identity, indigenous knowledge and transformational learning. Centered on Pacific Islander identities, this presentation aims to create dialogue on Pacific identities within museums, higher education and their relation to larger pedagogical themes of decolonial education, research and identity exploration. Using indigenous ways of knowing and sharing knowledge i.e. storytelling, this presentation aims at how we can reconsider using museum collections to work with communities and decolonize how public institutions discuss museum objects, community affiliation, and etc. In this presentation, I will be drawing on my time interning at the UW Burke Museum using their Oceanic collections as a focus as well as incorporating how research and community work call for intentional educational opportunities that respond to community interest, i.e. how this research becomes a basis for classes in UW's Anthropology Dept. By using museum collections and collaborative community work, we can introduce new ways of understanding identity, using museum collections, and highlighting marginalized groups in academia.
Recommended Citation
Salu, Leilani, "Pasefika Identities: How Museums Can Start Conversations Around Identity through Collections and Education" (2021). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 9.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2021/COTS/9
Department/Program
Anthropology and Museum Studies
Pasefika Identities: How Museums Can Start Conversations Around Identity through Collections and Education
Ellensburg
Inspired by previous internships and community work within the PNW, this presentation analyzes the way in which museums serve as a point to facilitate conversations around identity, indigenous knowledge and transformational learning. Centered on Pacific Islander identities, this presentation aims to create dialogue on Pacific identities within museums, higher education and their relation to larger pedagogical themes of decolonial education, research and identity exploration. Using indigenous ways of knowing and sharing knowledge i.e. storytelling, this presentation aims at how we can reconsider using museum collections to work with communities and decolonize how public institutions discuss museum objects, community affiliation, and etc. In this presentation, I will be drawing on my time interning at the UW Burke Museum using their Oceanic collections as a focus as well as incorporating how research and community work call for intentional educational opportunities that respond to community interest, i.e. how this research becomes a basis for classes in UW's Anthropology Dept. By using museum collections and collaborative community work, we can introduce new ways of understanding identity, using museum collections, and highlighting marginalized groups in academia.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2021/COTS/9
Faculty Mentor(s)
Hope Amason