“High-tech herders” or old traditionalists, or both?“High-tech herders” or old traditionalists, or both? Panel discussion in Helsinki, 17 Nov 2017, indigenous heritage 2017

“High-tech herders” or oldtraditionalists, or both?

Panel discussion in Helsinki, 17 Nov 2017, indigenousheritage 2017 conference

Florian Stammler, research professor, Anthropology

Кольтта-саамы Саамы Кольскогополуострова Европейские ненцы

Ямальские ненцы

БереговыеЯкутяне

Канинские ненцы

ORHELIA

Oral History of Elders in the Arctic

The nomadic memory of the Arctic

Digital technologies must not replace butenable live communication, also cross-culturally

Digital technologies must not erase butpreserve cultural heritage (see entry pic)

This is possible!

Digital technologies CAN make culturalheritage accessible for young generations,but only with competent content-management (e.g. youth yarabtsy movie?)

Oral heritage –transmission challenges

- How to protect the right of indigenous peoples to learn and live their culturalheritages better? It’s not only about the rights. It’s about creating the condition toexercise this right. They have such rights e.g. in Russia. But if you createconditions detrimental to the execution of that right, nobody will deal with it.- How to support indigenous peoples in producing, sharing and disseminatingtheir cultural heritage? E.g. through documenting and supporting. Often people onthe ground don’t have the time and tools to do that. Why shouldn’t we offer help?Or knowledge sharing like Clyde River Nunavut RCN project- How to building educational programmes truly inclusive for indigenouspeoples’ own ways of learning? Nomadic schooling, teleschooling, not takingpeople out of their world, as much as possible- How have digital technologies supported reproduction of cultural heritage andwhat are its negative sides? Digital repository, language database, salvagingmaterial, popularisation. But the huge opportunities need to be filled with content,and there it is hard for culturally relevant content to compete with Hollywood,Bollywood etc. If indigenous lose that battle, we lose intangible cultural heritage.- How do you see the balance between the right to Internet / access to digitaltechnologies and the preservation of the traditional way of life?Not a contradiction: internet, digitech and mobile is not per se good or bad. It’scharacterless, it is what you make of it. See cover pic