William Curtis Farabee: Ethnographic explorer and museum
... now known as Amazonian Dark Earth12 (ade) (Balée 2010:11; Myers et al. 2003:23; Woods & Denevan 2009:6). His third ethnographic exploration, undertaken between 1921 and 1923, was again to Peru; these data had not been published at the time of his death (gr 1925:675; Rowe 1962:403). In addition to th ...
... now known as Amazonian Dark Earth12 (ade) (Balée 2010:11; Myers et al. 2003:23; Woods & Denevan 2009:6). His third ethnographic exploration, undertaken between 1921 and 1923, was again to Peru; these data had not been published at the time of his death (gr 1925:675; Rowe 1962:403). In addition to th ...
The Reel Living Dead: Tales of Sounds from the Archival Vaults in
... archaic survivals of an earlier comparative musicology, and a number of university programs stopped funding their archives. Most ethnomusicologists were making their own field recordings and confining their analyses to the recordings they had made and the synchronic data they collected in their own ...
... archaic survivals of an earlier comparative musicology, and a number of university programs stopped funding their archives. Most ethnomusicologists were making their own field recordings and confining their analyses to the recordings they had made and the synchronic data they collected in their own ...
Arapaho Women`s Quillwork: Motion, Life, and Creativity. Jeffrey D
... mythological and ritual traditions, than for other Plains groups. Anderson has tackled a subject that is not currently fashionable as an anthropological research topic. Native American material culture collected by anthropologists in the discipline’s early years has faded from vogue. This author, wh ...
... mythological and ritual traditions, than for other Plains groups. Anderson has tackled a subject that is not currently fashionable as an anthropological research topic. Native American material culture collected by anthropologists in the discipline’s early years has faded from vogue. This author, wh ...
minimal marc standards for naa
... Use library-style capitalization, upper case being used only at the beginning and with proper names and titles (e.g., The life of Chief Harry Dickson, a white Indian) A title in a foreign language that appears on a work should be placed here. It will be necessary, however, to romanize titles in non- ...
... Use library-style capitalization, upper case being used only at the beginning and with proper names and titles (e.g., The life of Chief Harry Dickson, a white Indian) A title in a foreign language that appears on a work should be placed here. It will be necessary, however, to romanize titles in non- ...
Dr. HS Gour Central University, Sagar
... importance. Art museum, Science Museum, Public Museum, Private Museum, National Museum. Difference between Museum and laboratory, museum and gallery. ...
... importance. Art museum, Science Museum, Public Museum, Private Museum, National Museum. Difference between Museum and laboratory, museum and gallery. ...
“CAPTURING THE PAsT”: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
... be ‘scientifically’ traced through material culture and the objects as transmitters of the messages that can be simply decoded (cf. Maroević 1995 for the similar account). This epistemology is borrowed from the natural sciences, and it was typical of early museum practice, however it remains relativ ...
... be ‘scientifically’ traced through material culture and the objects as transmitters of the messages that can be simply decoded (cf. Maroević 1995 for the similar account). This epistemology is borrowed from the natural sciences, and it was typical of early museum practice, however it remains relativ ...
Anthropology and Archaeology
... Bentley holdings are a special tribute to the collaboration between non-professional and university anthropological archaeologists. Much remains to be researched and written about the archaeological knowledge of many sites and the research activities and development of professional archaeology in a ...
... Bentley holdings are a special tribute to the collaboration between non-professional and university anthropological archaeologists. Much remains to be researched and written about the archaeological knowledge of many sites and the research activities and development of professional archaeology in a ...
Museums and Ethnological Research.
... many of the special problems of studying art in culture, and anthropological analysis of art has developed very slowly. Some of the problems of primitive art can be successfully investigated by the methods of the art historians, who undoubtedly will pay more and more systematic attention to the subj ...
... many of the special problems of studying art in culture, and anthropological analysis of art has developed very slowly. Some of the problems of primitive art can be successfully investigated by the methods of the art historians, who undoubtedly will pay more and more systematic attention to the subj ...
Out of Heaviness, Enlightenment
... NAGPRA poses a number of difficult challenges for museums tenuous or difficult to establish. This is a particular problem and tribes alike. The most obvious of these is funding. NAGPRA has often been characterized as an unfunded mandate, with human remains that are extremely old, as in the case of s ...
... NAGPRA poses a number of difficult challenges for museums tenuous or difficult to establish. This is a particular problem and tribes alike. The most obvious of these is funding. NAGPRA has often been characterized as an unfunded mandate, with human remains that are extremely old, as in the case of s ...
CV - Penn State Anthropology!
... Improve conservation of collections by reorganizing and reboxing specimens with archival quality materials Ensure Penn State compliance with federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) regulations since 1993 Participate in departmental strategic planning for the Mat ...
... Improve conservation of collections by reorganizing and reboxing specimens with archival quality materials Ensure Penn State compliance with federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) regulations since 1993 Participate in departmental strategic planning for the Mat ...
FROM NATURAL WHOLES TO PARTICULAR UNIVERSALITY
... tell about a culture as such, detached in time and space. The collection documented everyday life somewhere in the world at a given time in history. Therefore, the collection made up a specific time-space which was in contrast to Birket-Smiths’ ideas of documenting “traditional cultures facing their ...
... tell about a culture as such, detached in time and space. The collection documented everyday life somewhere in the world at a given time in history. Therefore, the collection made up a specific time-space which was in contrast to Birket-Smiths’ ideas of documenting “traditional cultures facing their ...
The Role of Museums in Society: Education and
... from looting has had debilitating consequences beyond the loss of precious artifacts. The common perception of museums—the response I get whenever I discuss my interest in museums in a social gathering—is that “museum” refers to a major art gallery or a major national museum. Seldom do people have a ...
... from looting has had debilitating consequences beyond the loss of precious artifacts. The common perception of museums—the response I get whenever I discuss my interest in museums in a social gathering—is that “museum” refers to a major art gallery or a major national museum. Seldom do people have a ...
NEWS * ACTUALITÉ * BERICHTE
... cultural anthropology and museology. Among these are several monographs: Anthropologie der Bronzezeit (Anthropology of the Bronze Age – 1959), Anthropologie der Ungeren Steinzeit (Anthropologie of the Younger Stone Age – 1964), The Great Art of the Early Australians (1989), Société des chasseurs (So ...
... cultural anthropology and museology. Among these are several monographs: Anthropologie der Bronzezeit (Anthropology of the Bronze Age – 1959), Anthropologie der Ungeren Steinzeit (Anthropologie of the Younger Stone Age – 1964), The Great Art of the Early Australians (1989), Société des chasseurs (So ...
The Other on Display: Translation in the Ethnographic Museum
... strategy – the public’s choice in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, though offered only reluctantly by more scientifically minded curators,11 and now quite out of fashion (except, notably, in local and children’s museums12). The ethnological diorama showed a ‘slice of life’ in an exotic se ...
... strategy – the public’s choice in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, though offered only reluctantly by more scientifically minded curators,11 and now quite out of fashion (except, notably, in local and children’s museums12). The ethnological diorama showed a ‘slice of life’ in an exotic se ...
Museum Anthropology
... Provide students with ethnographic research and analytical skills to be practicing anthropologists in museums and related institutions Introduce students to the main areas of museum work (e.g., collections, education, research, exhibitions, etc.) and the diverse array of museum types and museologica ...
... Provide students with ethnographic research and analytical skills to be practicing anthropologists in museums and related institutions Introduce students to the main areas of museum work (e.g., collections, education, research, exhibitions, etc.) and the diverse array of museum types and museologica ...
'Colonial Governmentalities: conference report'
... negotiations were arguably more problematic given their subject matter. Because anthropology emerged in a period of secure colonial rule, its subjects were also colonial subjects; doing anthropology thus "meant dealing (somehow) with colonial authorities"; Kuklick reflected on these relations in can ...
... negotiations were arguably more problematic given their subject matter. Because anthropology emerged in a period of secure colonial rule, its subjects were also colonial subjects; doing anthropology thus "meant dealing (somehow) with colonial authorities"; Kuklick reflected on these relations in can ...
Stranger and Friend: The Way of an Anthropologist. Hortense
... history and biography by Helm and Gruber do resented by Lesu. Of course one lives in the vilnot go far enough. Intellectual history is fre- lage! But where there is no village? Where in quently intertwined with personal history as I fact there is no local community, as in Hollybelieve Parmenter’s ac ...
... history and biography by Helm and Gruber do resented by Lesu. Of course one lives in the vilnot go far enough. Intellectual history is fre- lage! But where there is no village? Where in quently intertwined with personal history as I fact there is no local community, as in Hollybelieve Parmenter’s ac ...
Human Tissue Act and Public Display Advice
... the hope that these do not present a barrier to the acceptance of specimens by any academic establishment or museum that feels they can put them to good use. A licence from the HTA is only required if the specimens are being stored for use for a scheduled purpose, as set out in Schedule 1 of the HT ...
... the hope that these do not present a barrier to the acceptance of specimens by any academic establishment or museum that feels they can put them to good use. A licence from the HTA is only required if the specimens are being stored for use for a scheduled purpose, as set out in Schedule 1 of the HT ...
Online exhibit - Harvard Peabody Museum of Anthropology and
... I'd like to invite you to view a student-created exhibit that highlights the ship model collection at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Undergraduates were assigned a model vessel to research as part of the introduction to maritime archaeology class. Many of the ...
... I'd like to invite you to view a student-created exhibit that highlights the ship model collection at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. Undergraduates were assigned a model vessel to research as part of the introduction to maritime archaeology class. Many of the ...
Field Trip 2 Reaction Paper: National Museum of Natural History On
... gallery, “Bones.” This exhibit focuses on the paleontology of a variety of animals, and displays a large number of complete skeletons. Much of the information focuses on how bone structures determine the classifications of different organisms, which is conveyed once again through writings on the wal ...
... gallery, “Bones.” This exhibit focuses on the paleontology of a variety of animals, and displays a large number of complete skeletons. Much of the information focuses on how bone structures determine the classifications of different organisms, which is conveyed once again through writings on the wal ...
Museum, Collecting, Agency Flyer
... She has been involved in the arts and cultural sectors for three decades as an artist, arts administrator, curator, academic and consultant. Croft is a Senior Research Fellow with the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Nélia Dias is Associa ...
... She has been involved in the arts and cultural sectors for three decades as an artist, arts administrator, curator, academic and consultant. Croft is a Senior Research Fellow with the National Institute for Experimental Arts, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Nélia Dias is Associa ...
Anthropological Types
... At the turn of the last century, W. E. B. Du Bois compiled a series of photographs for the "American Negro" exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition. He organized the 363 images into albums, entitled Types of American Negroes, Georgia, U.S.A. and Negro Life in Georgia, U.S.A.. At the time, Du Bois wa ...
... At the turn of the last century, W. E. B. Du Bois compiled a series of photographs for the "American Negro" exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition. He organized the 363 images into albums, entitled Types of American Negroes, Georgia, U.S.A. and Negro Life in Georgia, U.S.A.. At the time, Du Bois wa ...
129 Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania
... but did you also know that its objects are beautiful? In purposefully detaching selected objects from their anthropological context, senior editor Jennifer Quick takes a refreshingly new and likely controversial look at the extensive Penn Museum collection, charting the visually stunning collection ...
... but did you also know that its objects are beautiful? In purposefully detaching selected objects from their anthropological context, senior editor Jennifer Quick takes a refreshingly new and likely controversial look at the extensive Penn Museum collection, charting the visually stunning collection ...
Field Museum of Natural History
The Field Museum of Natural History is a natural history museum in Chicago and among the largest in the world. The museum maintains its status as a premier natural history museum through the size and quality of its educational and scientific programs, as well as due to its extensive scientific specimen and artifact collections. The diverse, high quality permanent exhibitions, which attract up to 2 million visitors annually, range from the earliest fossils to past and current cultures from around the world to interactive programming demonstrating today's urgent conservation needs.Additionally, the Field Museum maintains a temporary exhibition program of traveling shows as well as in-house produced topical exhibitions. The professional staff maintains collections of over 24 million specimens and objects that provide the basis for the museum’s scientific research programs. These collections include the full range of existing biodiversity, gems, meteorites, fossils, as well as rich anthropological collections and cultural artifacts from around the globe. The Field Museum Library, which contains over 275,000 books, journals, and photo archives focused on biological systematics, evolutionary biology, geology, archaeology, ethnology and material culture, supports the Field Museum’s academic research faculty and exhibit development.The Field Museum academic faculty and scientific staff engage in field expeditions, in biodiversity and cultural research on all continents, in local and foreign student training, in stewardship of the rich specimen and artifact collections, and work in close collaboration with public programming exhibitions and education initiatives.