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In 2014, the National Museum of Denmark (NMD), in conjunction with the Greenland National Museum and Archives (Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaateqarfialu [NKA]), as well as the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, launched the website Skin Clothing Online. The site presents the NMD's total collection of 2,170 historic skin clothing items, dating from circa 1830 to 1950, from the circumpolar area. The clothing can be studied in minute detail due to high-resolution photos; 100 complete suits were photographed from all sides. Furthermore, 107 items of clothing were measured by means of 3D technology, which can be used to draw precise two-dimensional patterns. The documentation is made accessible to the public through a website, in compliance with creative commons licenses: CC-BY-SA for the photos and CC-BY-SA-NC for the patterns. The website uses content from the database SkinBase. Since 2017 parts of the NKA's collection of archeological skin clothing from Qilakitsoq (circa 1475 AD), as well as historical garments and contemporary fashions, have also been made accessible, in keeping with the same copyright rules for photos. The NKA staff entered the items into the database without difficulty using a Virtual Private Connection (VPN). The Danish and Greenlandic national museums encourage international partners to contribute items to the website. The aim is to create a collaborative open forum for information and research with easy access for everybody to unique, fragile pieces of circumpolar cultural heritage. With clothing from Arctic peoples and clothing used on expeditions to Antarctica, the Polar Museum in Cambridge will be the next museum to contribute to the website.
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Starting in the 1990s, Morocco intiated a process of recognition of the different identities, whether of Berber or of Jewish origin, that contributed to the formation of Moroccan identity throughout time. In fact, up until the 1990s, and according to the pan-Arabist atmosphere of the time, state policies in Morocco sought to hide and marginalize all non-Arab historical and cultural heritages. The change in policies tha occurred in the 1990s gave rise to a whole new set of issues in terms of memory and heritage politics. The interest shown by King Mohammed VI, who wanted all Jewish cemeteries in Morocco to be restored with funds coming directly from the Royal Palace, helped to recover 167 Jewish cemeteries in Morocco only in 2015. Against this background, the case of Meknes is unique and interesting to analyse. As one of the most important cities for the history of Jews in Morocco, Meknes up until today has no place of Jewish memory restored and preserved as such, except for a partial restoration of the old cemetery made in 2017. The cemetery of the ancient mellah in Meknes, in particular, presents a unique urban typology that sees the tombs nestling along its walls, the holiest among them being placed at the foot of the walls themselves, as if to protect, from this position, the entire mellah. It is then the specific case of Meknes and the forgetting of its Jewish heritage that will be the object of my analysis.
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In this article, we share our experience conducting research with Métis women as Métis women researchers. We engaged in promising research practices through visiting, ceremony, and creative methods of art and writing embedded in what we identify as a learning-by-doing practice. Through collaborative and Indigenous relational methodology, we sought to support a culturally safe, nurturing space where Métis women could learn from one another and express Métis knowledge about the specific roles and responsibilities of Métis Aunties within our respective kinship system. This inquiry into the roles of Métis Aunties included a creative art and writing dialogue event in the Métis river community of St. Louis in Saskatchewan, attended by women who were Métis Aunties or nieces. The purpose of the event was to learn more about our Métis Aunties, building on Dr. Kim Anderson's (2016) extensive research on women's roles in the governance, care, and wellness of our healthy/balanced kinship systems. We chose this specific region because of its historical significance to Métis people as a river place, and our own personal connections to Métis families in this area. We share our processes in learning with and from other Métis women in order to contribute to the growing literature on relational approaches to research.
Keywords: Métis women, Métis Aunties, Indigenous relational methodology, kinship systems
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The Grim Reaper, one of the thanatic images of western iconography, has often been used in artistic and cinematographic creation. It has also been the subject of a humorous reinterpretation, which will be explored in this paper using contemporary examples (movie, cartoons and drawings available on the Internet). The analysis highlights scenographic and discursive strategies to create humorous effects (incongruity, aggressiveness, quid pro quo, etc.) that aim to humanize death by exploring the stakes and dilemmas that the Grim Reaper encounters in its existence and role.
Keywords: Grande Faucheuse, humour, film, bande dessinée, dessins humoristiques, Grim Reaper, humor, film, cartoons, humoristic drawings
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Like many libraries across Canada, Manitoba public libraries have grappled with the challenges that COVID-19 has presented. Libraries have struggled to remain operational and offer a high level of service to patrons within the constraint of public health orders, all the while ensuring the safety and employment of their staff. Within the ever-changing environment of COVID-19, the Manitoba Library Association recognized the need to gather information from the library community in order to better position themselves to lend support and in an attempt to bridge information gaps. This article describes a study conducted by the Manitoba Library Association whereby fifty-five Manitoba public libraries were surveyed to identify how they were responding to COVID-19 and what their needs might be. The survey questions were divided into 6 sections (facilities, services, communications, staffing, connecting, wrap-up) and the results provide information and insight into how the Manitoba library community has dealt with the pandemic. More importantly, the results can serve to guide other libraries in decision-making and preparation for a pandemic.
Keywords: COVID-19, pandemic, pandemic response, libraries, public libraries, Manitoba, COVID-19, Pandémie, Réponse à la pandémie, Bibliothèques, Bibliothèques publiques, Manitoba
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Since 1980, several Quebec rural municipalities have turned to the local development approach to offer better living conditions to their residents. Rural communities face complex economic, social and environmental challenges requiring that the people involved have certain knowledge and skills. This research aims to discover the phenomena that contribute to the development of the ability to act for those involved in a local development process in rural areas. A case study was conducted from the local development approach in community organization and from two components of the concept of individual empowerment: participation and skills. The results reveal that the participation and the acquisition of knowledge depend on various factors such as the characteristics of the people's profile, the factors that foster the presence of people within the collective project, the readiness to learn and the learning methods.
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I was born in South Africa, as were my parents and grandparents. We have descended from people who had been brought to South Africa through indenture, a colonial labour system that introduced alien agricultural methods and an alien workforce from India, to optimise monocultures like sugarcane. My very presence here is, therefore, entangled with colonialism’s domestication and mastery over land, plant, and people (Indigenous and indentured). I have never felt alien here. Why was that? What about the indenture stories of people, land and plant, beyond empire’s mastery and control—my ancestral wild places? And was there room within these wild places to heal colonial wounds across our ethnic and racial barriers? What was lost? Could my PhD2 research transcripts address some of those losses? This paper contains poems that emerged from PhD research interviews, my fieldnotes, my father's memoirs, and letters from my ancestral archives. A poetic lens gave me a decolonial language to inspect the archives and transcripts with some of these questions in mind.
Keywords: erasure, indenture, soil, women, joy, poetry
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Organizational backends and logistics are often complex and many institutions set-up their workflows based on manual and tedious processes that negatively shape their interactions with stakeholders. Incorporating new technologies can be intimidating, however there exists a plethora of financially and technically accessible resources, that don’t require any coding knowledge, that institutions can utilize to enhance their organizational workflow and stakeholder experience. Guided by our own learning experiences in optimal logistical set-up and user design, we wish to highlight five effective and easily implementable tricks to aid higher institutions and student groups in healthcare accomplish their administrative duties.