Rivers Foundation Explorer 2019 - Charlotte Austwick Application Video

Описание: Charlotte Austwick won the Rivers Foundation Explorer Award for Health & Humanities in 2019 for her 'Voices of the Maya' expedition.

Charlotte is an archaeologist and anthropologist from South Wales. She has a BA in Classical Archaeology & Drama and a Masters in Social & Visual Anthropology from the University of Kent. Charlotte has a wide array of expertise and has recently graduated as a Screen Skill’s Film Camera Trainee.

Whilst working for her Master’s Degree she lived and filmed with a Mopan and Qeqchi Maya community in order to research ‘What meaning the archaeological sites of Belize hold for the Maya people of today’. Her results identified key issues relating to a decline of their heritage. Now she is returning, with team-mate Xilona Blanco to share her findings and work with the community in resolving some of these 10issues. Charlotte believes in strong community engagement and this interdisciplinary project will bring together all ages of the community, to record Maya history, life and culture in their native language. Their intention is to leave a lasting legacy for future generations by creating a series of reading books in Maya. Charlotte will also work with the community to learn more about previously ‘undiscovered’ archaeological sites.

Award supported by the Rivers Foundation.