@article {9692,
	title = {Memory, Practice, Telling Community},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {496-518},
	abstract = {<p>Indigenous and ethnocultural communities commonly invoke a sense of community and heritage through the memory and practice of specific culturally-valued, land- and sea-based activities. Two ways in which these vital connections between people and activities are manifested is through the sharing of stories and the making and use of objects. We view both narratives and objects as storehouses of cultural memory: they enable individuals to generate and share remembered experiences; and to create and hold onto the connections, relations, and belonging that constitute community. We explore the idea of community through four \&ldquo;tellings\&rdquo; drawn from narratives and objects. The first two tellings are a sequence of memories about trapping and hunting shared by two Inuvialuit Elders of the Canadian Western Arctic. The second two tellings are stories from a series of whaling amulets made by and for Maori of New Zealand/Aotearoa. Our approach works to problematize how we define archaeological \&ldquo;objects\&rdquo; and moves towards an understanding of how memory evokes cultural practices that create and sustain communities of the past and present.</p>},
	author = {Natasha Lyons and Yvonne Marshall}
}
