Museum of Anthropology at UBC
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Reciprocal Research Network

Goal

The RRN aims to support and enable interdisciplinary research in four related areas:

Material and Visual Culture
Language and Oral History
Museology and Repatriation
Museums, New Technology and Intellectual Property

The RRN restores, widens, and creates new knowledge surrounding indigenous cultural heritage by developing a new community-based approach to research. This model of research and community access will utilize technology to facilitate two-way, or reciprocal, exchange of knowledge among communities and institutions around the globe.

Stó:lō Nation / UBC Collaborative excavation

Originating Communities will be able to view globally dispersed cultural items from their own perspectives, add their own knowledge, documents and photographs, and study previously accumulated research.

Working together, Museum Staff, Researchers and Communities will be able to develop and enhance relationships. The goal of the RRN is to promote inclusive research through fostering collaboration and discussion.