Cultural Appropriation - Academic Roundtable

What is Cultural Appropriation and what not? Come along to a roundtable
discussion with four academics to discuss all the complexities and
nuances around this debated topic.

Dr Angela Puca will chair a roundtable discussion with three brilliant
guests. We all look forward to your questions, so make sure the set the
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*** our guests ***

HELEN BERGER

Helen A Berger, PhD is an affiliated scholar at the Women’s Studies
Research Center of Brandeis University.

PUBLICATIONS

A Community of Witches https://amzn.to/40mwo2p

Voices from the Pagan Census https://amzn.to/3YVC1DC

Witchcraft and Magic in North America https://amzn.to/3TsXJO4

Teenage Witches https://amzn.to/3mUMEZZ

Solitary Pagans https://amzn.to/40dTVmk

Conversation article
https://theconversation.com/sage-sacred-to-native-americans-is-being-used-in-purification-rituals-raising-issues-of-cultural-appropriation-198470

SABINA MAGLIOCCO

Sabina Magliocco, Ph.D. is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the
interdisciplinary Program in the Study of Religion at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver. A recipient of Guggenheim, National
Endowment for the Humanities, SSHRC, Fulbright and Hewlett fellowships,
and an honorary Fellow of the American Folklore Society, she has
published on religion, folklore, foodways, festival and witchcraft in
Europe and North America, and is a leading authority on the modern Pagan
movement.

Her current research is on nature and animals in the spiritual imagination.

Sabina also trained in the Gardnerian and Reclaiming traditions, and is the priestess of an eclectic coven in Vancouver, B.C.

Contact: [email protected]

Web: https://anth.ubc.ca/faculty/sabina-magliocco/

SUZANNE OWEN

Dr Suzanne Owen is an Associate Professor at Leeds Trinity University
and researches indigeneity in Newfoundland and British Druidry.

Relevant publications:

Owen, S (2008) The Appropriation of Native American Spirituality
(London; New York: Continuum [Bloomsbury 2011]). https://amzn.to/42t14AM

Owen, S. (2020) ‘Is Druidry Indigenous? The Politics of Pagan
Indigeneity Discourse.' In G. Harvey (ed.) Indigenising Movements in
Europe (Sheffield: Equinox), pp. 71-83. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/indigenising/

Owen, S. (2022) What is a Sweat Lodge? In M. Molly and N. Avalos (eds)
Indigenous Religions in Five Minutes. Sheffield: Equinox, pp. 190-192. https://amzn.to/3Ju6HpO

social media handle: @DrSuzanneOwen

00:00:00 Introduction: Meet the panel
00:03:07 The four main elements of Cultural Appropriation
00:05:11 White sage
00:11:19 Who is upset?
00:16:24 Context is important
00:24:35 When is it appreciation?
00:31:32 Yoga
00:37:43 Commodification
00:46:36 Pineapple on pizza example
00:48:35 Acquiring rights to a practice
00:55:34 Distinguishing between hybridity, syncretism and CA
00:59:22 Ancient cultures
01:08:26 The Sedona Sweat lodge
01:14:22 Patreon questions
01:18:59 Mixed approval and disapproval
01:27:13 Buying indigenous art
01:31:34 A personal calling by a spirit
01:36:21 The role of indigenous scholars
01:46:10 Wrap-up and support Angela’s Symposium