Скачать или смотреть Dr Sven Haakanson | SASS 2021 Keynote Speaker

Professor Sven D. Haakanson is a leader in the documentation, preservation, and revival of indigenous culture, including his own native Alaskan Sugpiaq traditions. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2007), the Museums Alaska Award for Excellence (2008), the ATALM Guardians of Culture and Lifeways Leadership Award (2012), and his work on the Angyaaq led it to be inducted into the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame (2020). He was Executive Director of the Alutiiq Museum and Archaeological Repository (2000-2013 Kodiak, AK), and joined the University of Washington as an associate professor of Anthropology and curator of Native American collections at the Burke Museum in 2013. He played a central role in the design of the new Burke "Culture is Living" Gallery (2016-19). Dr. Haakanson engages communities in cultural revitalization using material reconstruction as a form of scholarship and teaching. With a Nordic-American background himself, Dr. Haakanson has long been interested in the intersection of communities, traditions, and material cultures in Alaska and elsewhwere. (Text credit: University of Washington, American Indian Studies Department website: https://ais.washington.edu/people/sve...)