Beading as an Embodiment of Life: Understanding Indigenous Beadwork Through Felt Theory and an Indigenous Research Paradigm

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMcLean, Lauren
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-16T13:01:55Z
dc.date.available2023-03-16T13:01:55Z
dc.date.copyright2023en_US
dc.date.issued2023-03-16
dc.description.abstractThis project examines the significance of Métis beadwork as an embodiment of cultural identity and resurgence. My methodology includes autoethnography and storytelling to situate myself in my research and connect findings in the literature to my own experiences. I am beading a pair of moccasin vamps (also known as tops or tongues) as a part of my research, using Tiffany Dione Prete's (2019) theory of beadwork as a research paradigm. Jeff Corntassel's theory of acts of everyday resurgence, Dian Million's (2009) felt theory, and aspects of storywork by Jo-ann Archibald (2008). The findings of my research not only position Métis beadwork as a crucial factor in the resurgence of Métis culture and identity, but also as a way to understand knowledge transmission, resistance and resiliency, governance, and relationality. My initial interest in the topic, motivated by my own curiosity around Métis material culture as a young reconnecting Métis person, quickly developed into something much more significant. What I found were the threads that can help stitch back together symbolic Métis material culture and Métis epistemologies, ontologies, methodologies, and pedagogies, which have been fractured by colonization.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduateen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipJamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/14814
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectResilienceen_US
dc.subjectKnowledge Transmissionen_US
dc.subjectBeadworken_US
dc.subjectResurgenceen_US
dc.subjectMétisen_US
dc.titleBeading as an Embodiment of Life: Understanding Indigenous Beadwork Through Felt Theory and an Indigenous Research Paradigmen_US
dc.typePosteren_US

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Lauren McLean-JCURAposter-2023.pdf
Size:
793.31 KB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Description:
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
2 KB
Format:
Item-specific license agreed upon to submission
Description:
Download

Collections

Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards (JCURA)
 
University of Victoria Libraries

We acknowledge and respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.