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TitleVanishing pasts, ethnographic presents and digital futuresOther Titles (e.g. Variant)Case of the Maasai audiovisual archivesAmerican Folklife Center lecture, 2010-04-07TypeMixed MaterialCollectionMoving ImageSummaryVideorecording of a lecture given by Guha Shankar cosponsored by the American Folklife Center and the Library of Congress African and Middle Eastern Division about the field school for cultural documentation training for members of the Maasai community from Laikipia District, Kenya, which took place in Washington, D.C. at the Library of Congress, in North Carolina at the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies, and in Laikipia, Kenya in 2009. The idea for this program originated with a request for training and technical support by Maasai people at meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore in Geneva, Switzerland. The project aims to provide indigenous communities with the technical and methodological skills needed to record, maintain, and preserve aspects of their traditional cultural heritage and to control their own public representations. Shankar discussed conflicts between ecotourism and traditional economies of Masaai people, impacts of the training on the community, and Maasai efforts to both document and archive documentation of their cultural expressions.CaptureRecorded in the African and Middle Eastern Reading Room, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress on April 7, 2010.Origin Date(s)2010 April 7 Authorized Access PointShankar, Guha Vanishing pasts, ethnographic presents and digital futures