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Episode Description
In today’s episode, we introduce a new type of episode called sipping tea, where we discuss interesting things that we find in our research! Sip some tea with us as we chat about non-traditional research outputs and comics in peer-reviewed journals. We’ll discuss “Stories About Repatriations: Journeys to Complete the Work,” a full comic featured in the journal American Anthropologist, and our own experiences creating and using non-traditional research outputs.
Timestamps
00:00
Intro
00:37
Sipping Tea Episode Introduction
00:55
Exploring Non-Traditional Research Outputs
01:10
Pin Check
02:06
Defining Non-Traditional Research Outputs and Gray Literature
04:12
Traditional vs Non-Traditional Research Outputs
05:37
Examples of Non-Traditional Outputs
07:21
Discovering Comics in an Academic Journal
08:49
Understanding Repatriation and Cultural Patrimony
09:07
Stories About Repatriations: Journeys to Complete the Work
13:29
Undergraduate Research and Non-Traditional Research Outputs
14:51
Sharing Research and Scholarly Communication
15:51
Determining the right research format?
17:13
Evaluating Non-Traditional Research Outputs
18:25
The Role of Peer Review in Creative Formats
21:04
Will this conversation impact our work going forward?
24:07
Navigating Publishing Non-Traditional Research
26:39
Library Favs
27:55
Outro
For a full transcript of this episode, visit our Substack at https://librariansspillthetea.substack.com/.
Mentioned in this Episode
Non-traditional research outputs (University of Melbourne): https://research.unimelb.edu.au/strengths/updates/news/explainer-what-are-non-traditional-research-outputs,-and-why-do-they-matter
Gray literature: https://guides.library.illinois.edu/c.php?g=1310347&p=9630537
Ologies: https://www.alieward.com/ologies
“Two Archaeologists Unscientifically Argue That Ethical Practice Is Anti-Science” by Emma Louise Backe: https://thegeekanthropologist.com/2021/04/27/two-archaeologists-unscientifically-argue-that-ethical-practice-is-anti-science/
Dr. Sonya Atalay: https://anthropology.mit.edu/people/faculty/sonya-atalay
Dr. Jen Shannon: https://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/jen-shannon
National Park Service Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act website: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm
“NAGPRA Comics featured in peer-reviewed journal, American Anthropologist”: https://nagpracomics.weebly.com/project-updates/nagpra-comics-featured-in-peer-reviewed-journal-american-anthropologist
“Stories About Repatriations: Journeys to Complete the Work” by Sonya Atalay, Jen Shannon, and John G. Swogger: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18QQYDDi9bjbpvSA9sNV9tHp_SSsHL--o/view
Abstract: NAGPRA Comics, Vol. 1: Journeys to Complete the Work: Stories about Repatriations and Changing the Way We Bring Native American Ancestors Home (2017) is a coauthored comic book by archaeologist Sonya Atalay (Anishinabe-Ojibwe), museum anthropologist Jen Shannon, and archaeologist and comic artist John Swogger in collaboration with the Ziibiwing Center of Anishinabe Culture & Lifeways. This comic book—the first in the NAGPRA Comics series—is based on our research, scholarly commitments, and practical experience implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA). As an applied comic, Journeys to Complete the Work is both a scholarly resource and a call to action. It aims to empower Native communities by informing them about their rights under NAGPRA and to educate Native and non-Native communities about the law—its benefits and its shortfalls (Swogger 2017).
Graphic narratives are a vernacular and popular form, which allows us to use a direct vocabulary and avoid sanitized legal language for concepts relating to the unsettling history and reality of burials, bones, and digging up graves. In 2012, it was estimated that there were 300,000 to 600,000 Native American bodies in US university, museum, and laboratory collections that were subject to NAGPRA (McKeown 2013, 10). While we may slip into using NAGPRA legal terms like “culturally unidentifiable individuals” and “associated funerary objects,” we are talking about Native ancestors—bodies that were dug up from burials, burials that reflect spiritual care for individuals and the items buried with them that were intended for traveling with the ancestors on their journey. Repatriation is a part of completing this interrupted journey.
Ethno/Graphic Storytelling: Communicating Research and Exploring Pedagogical Approaches through Graphic Narratives, Drawings, and Zines by: Sonya Atalay, Letizia Bonanno, Sally Campbell Galman, Sarah Jacqz, Ryan Rybka, Jen Shannon, Cary Speck, John Swogger, Erica Wolencheck: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aman.13293
“Completing the Journey: A Graphic Narrative about NAGPRA and Repatriation” by Sonya Atalay and Jen Shannon: https://www.americananthropologist.org/ethnographic-storytelling/atalay-shannon-completing-journey
Pictures of our window decorations (only on Substack)
In the Library with the Lead Pipe: https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/
Tristan’s lightning talk slides (only on Substack)
Other Resources Reviewed in the Prep for this Episode
University of Wollongong - Australia Library services for researchers - Strategic Publishing Guide: https://uow.libguides.com/strategic-publishing/NTRO
Pin Check
There is no planet B*: https://shop.amnh.org/there-is-no-planet-b-enamel-pin
* It was later discovered that this pin actually belonged to Tristan’s student worker :)
& JULIET X FOLX Transgender Awareness Pin: https://www.broadwaymerchandiseshop.com/products/juliet-transgender-awareness-pin?srsltid=AfmBOoqP-j6ZdykLAhJEQYmd2x4f4v2xNHTx7AWtx909grZXSI65AbaL
The Lab Coat of Library Science:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1229899968/lab-coat-of-library-science-cardigan
The music in our intro/outro is “Old Friends from Manhattan” by White_Music on Pixabay.
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