On May 5th, Khin and Kwol (two Montagnard women who we also met with earlier in the term via videoconferencing) traveled to UNCSA with Andrew Young to show us some cooking techniques and talk with us about Montagnard food.They brought the ingredients and the knowledge+skills, two of our students --Emily and Nathan-- contributed their labor, and four or five of us documented the event with still images and video.
When people get involved in doing things together --simple things like cooking--wonderful things tend to happen. For example, storytelling and reminiscing seem to emerge naturally. A short video that Andrew Young assembled (in part to experiment with subtitles on videos, in part to get one of Kwol's stories on record) is included in this post. In it, Kwol tells the story of the extended time she spent living in the Cambodian jungle.
After the food event Andrew and I took Khin and Kwol on a tour of the UNCSA campus. This was great fun. From an anthropological perspective it was very interesting to be on the other end of the camera, so to speak, as the two Montagnard women gathered their own narrated footage on the UNCSA campus.
The Global Village Revisited is an intercultural documentary video project involving the Montagnard Dega community in North Carolina and students at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts
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