- Manila, Tel Aviv and back
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908-2009
- Will Matrimonial Websites Transform the Traditional Norms of Indian Marriage?
- Al-Hima, A Way of Being
- Heritage 2010
- A Roof with a View
- The ‘Power and Taboo’ of ‘Pasifika Styles’
- Call for Papers: Wrapping and Unwrapping the Body – Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
- Hackers, liberalism and pleasure
- Coming of Age in Digital Anthropology
- A Virtual Home for Poland's Vanished Jews
- Exquisite Bodies
- Bard Graduate Center upcoming seminars and exhibitions
- Motorways & Wherefores
- “Carrot-Cut Jeans” in Berlin
- The Science Exhibition: Curation, Design, Communication
- New Program in Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies
- Symbols and signs
- Bard Graduate Center - seminar series in material culture
- Bloggers and the blogosphere in Lebanon and Syria: “Meanings” & “Activities
- Icons of the Desert
- To Dispose or Not to Dispose...
- A little bit of end of summer frippery...
- Call for papers: “Wrapping objects”
- Journal of Modern Craft - Online
- What is Virtual Heritage?
- Digital archiving of records of anthropology
- Looking Good
- Significant Objects
- The domestication and indigenization of global forces through consumption
- 2010-2011 Clark-Oakley Fellowship
- Material Markets
- Materiality and digitization in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
- Handmade Nation
- Seeing Things
- Objects - What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change
- PERSONAL COLLECTING AND THE INTERNET: A growing collective resource?
- On Multiple Ontologies and the Temporality of Things
- A call for a bridge between ‘ontography’ and material culture studies
- Visuality / Materiality: Reviewing Theory, Method and Practice
- Homeless World Cup
- Joywar
- Reflections in the Glass: your Opinion about Antiquities
- Sign Language
- Gandhi's Children: an exhibition and film by David MacDougall
- Assembling Bodies: Art, Science and Imagination
- Screening student films - UCL
- 48 Gordon Square
- Legitimizing a People: The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center
- Junior-Scientist-Position (European Ethnology or Social/Cultural Anth)
- Protected: Open access materials for teaching research ethics
- Anthropology and photography at the American Museum of Natural History
- Body & Soul
- Out of the Box: Anthropology Collections Unpacked
- Ice Cream and ‘CCCP’: Evoking nostalgia in post-soviet packaging
- Call for Papers: New Directions in Museum Ethics
- Pictures Worth at least a Thousand Words
- Digital forum on indigenous media
- Beliefs, Concepts and Things: Materiality & the Immaterial
- New student-led journal - Imponderabilia
- And the Pursuit of Happiness
- Worshiping Women in Greece
- The (dis)empowerment of things in Amazonian cosmopolitics - An anthropological workshop
- Call for Papers - Exploding Objects Goldsmiths
- Second Skins: Cloth and Difference
- Zapatista Tchotchkes
- How Does Photography Change Our Lives? How Has Photography Changed Your Life?
- What’s the ‘Matter’ in Anthropology
- Material Culture of Homelessness
- A Father’s Past Unknown: Illuminating, Retelling and Recreating Memory
- Whose father was he?
- New VMC Journal for Graduate Students
- Visual Culture, Digitalization, and Cultural Heritage in Oceania
- Mapping New York Communities Workshop: An Introduction to GIS & Community Analysis
- Playing dangerously: Transformational moments in children’s play within a global television culture
- The Objects of Creativity
- The Body as Object: the Human as Material Culture
- Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection
- Thinking about 'Things'
- Doctoral Research Fellowship (Museology)
- KAUAGE: ARTIST OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- Limited Edition: The Consumption of Music Box Sets and the Politics of Distinction
- Call for Papers
- India 'helped win Gandhi auction'
- Up the river – Ifugao extras and the making of Apocalypse Now
- People, Plants, Food
- NEW MA IN DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY
- Lecturer in Digital Anthropology
- Performance, Art & Anthropology
- Open source object management
- PARENTING BY PHONE AND INTERNET – THE CASE OF THE FILIPINO DIASPORA
- Joint Appointment in Medieval Archaeology
- Pasifika Styles: Artists inside the museum
- Guest Lecture, Nick Merriman
- Every object has a story...
- Failed Design: What were they thinking?
- Post-Doctoral Researcher in World Archaeology
- Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya
- Summer Institute - Smithsonian Institute
- EXHILIRATING ENERGIES FROM THE EAST: THE IMPACT OF ARTIST-EMIGRES FROM EASTERN EUROPE ON BRITISH CULTURE, 1900-1950s
- Research Associate - Bard Graduate Center
- Syllabus watch - teaching material culture
- Auschwitz in decay
- The Carver and the Artist
- Marxist interpretations of consumption and materiality - strengths and weaknesses
- Position Available: Curator of Musical Instruments – Africa
- The Relational Museum
- Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars - Call for Papers
- 'Green Economics' Book Launch
- Job search - Anthropologist (North American Indigenous Cultures) Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
- Colin Turnbull's MC legacies
- Amateur Passions / Professional Practice: ethnography collectors and collections
- Editorship Museum Anthropology
- Materialising the Subject: phenomenological and post-ANT objects in the social sciences
- NEW FASHION JOURNAL
- Semantic Webs
- Made in Brazil: Jeans and Identity Export to the Global Fantasy Market
- 11th RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film
- War, Memory, Material Culture
- UEA Lectureship in the Arts of the Pacific
- 2010 RSH Visiting Fellowships Program: Imaging Identity
- Call for Films/Visual Projects/Papers: Visual Anthropology and Materiality
- Subject: Feeling bored? Communication technologies among Romanian teenagers
- Within the Trajectory of Things
- E-curator project at University College London
- AHRC ‘Beyond Text’ PhD Studentship at UCL
- A CENTURY OF LEVI-STRAUSS
- A CARD FOR LÉVI STRAUSS
- Migrant Worlds, Material Cultures
- The Fate of the Jolika Collection hangs in the balance.
- Colonialism, history and the making of heritage
- Studies in Material Thinking
- The Challenges of “Recuperating” Historical Memory: The Archive as Personal and Academic Source
- Roving reporter - the Mead Film Festival at the AMNH
- Museum Ethics
- Dominant Wave Theory, 2006
- The East Devon Pebblebeds Project
- Balkanizing Taxonomy
- Antiquities Wars
- Heritage Chat 2008: 14-16 November 2008
- OBJECTS, PERFUMES, LANGUAGE
- The Multispecies Salon
- New Materials, New Technologies
- Burial Poles
- "Picturing the Museum: Education and Exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History"
- Lectureships (x 2) Media & Critical Studies
- Board Culture & Urban Art
- Cultural property and museum ethics - a class response
- Experimenting with the Visual in Art and Anthropology
- ART AND AGENCY: TEN YEARS ON
- OURS: Democracy in the age of Branding
- 'Trawlermen' screening, RAI
- Material World community in the news
- Materialising the economic crisis
- The Rat
- 'Captain Cook' boomerang row rebounds on Christies
- Is the Cellphone kosher?
- Visual Culture in Britain
- UCL Material Culture Seminar Series, Autumn 2008
- Centre for Museums, Heritage & Material Culture Studies Occasional Seminar Series 2008
- Call for Papers
- Twelve Canoes
- Jeans in Socialist Hungary
- MEMORY AND TRAUMA: THE STAKES OF A MEMORIAL MUSEUM
- Irish-Romanian Homes and the Anthropology of Uncertainty
- On collectors, collections and financial obligations....
- Open thread: Some links to thinking about objects using open source technologies...
- Positions in Material Culture Studies at ANU
- Silences in the Museum - Reflections on the European Exotic
- An island of Collectors: Circulation of Heirlooms and Handicrafts on the Aegean island of Skyros, Greece
- Bye bye Barn
- GENDER AND THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT - new database resource
- Postdoctoral job opportunities in museums & heritage
- Assistant Curator - Musical Instrument Collections
- Local worlds: spaces visibilities and transcultural flows
- Sous la pave, la plage?
- Water on Water: Kiribati in Crisis
- Artifact Piece, Revisited: Erica Lord at the National Museum of the American Indian, April 3-5, 2008
- Reader's query
- Job Vacancy: Assistant Curator - Odontological Collection
- The Creation Museum - visited
- Heartlands, Pool - Play Jumping, Cornwall
- Energy boom in West threatens Indian Artifacts
- Archive Fever 2
- From Anatomic collections to objects of Worship
- Photography and materiality
- Material Histories
- Lace and licentiousness
- New Views of Society: Robert Owen for the 21st Century
- Aikido and Ideational Flow
- The everyday life of objects
- China’s Legacy: Let a Million Museums Bloom
- CTCC MA Studentships
- Red Cloud’s Manikin
- Who are you?
- The Comfort of Things (Polity)
- A Life for sale - on ebay...
- Living with mobile phones in Brazil
- The 'real' crystal skull
- What is treasure hunting? What is archaeology?
- Art Booty in London's East End
- Making an Exhibition with Images and Objects from Fieldwork in Anthropological Research
- After 100 Years, Tribe’s Ancestors Head Home
- Critical Fetishism and Coke®
- New York trash revisited...
- Material Matters: New Research from Brighton’s Postgraduate Design History Society
- National Treasures stolen from MOA
- Crests on Cotton: “Souvenir” T-shirts and the materiality of remembrance among the Kwakwaka’wakw of British Columbia
- New Exhibition: Peabody Museum Harvard
- RGS Honours Denis Cosgrove (1948-2008)
- Things Magazine
- The Yoruba Body
- BENJAMIN'S OBJECTS
- Gaucho Clothing: An Ethnographical Analysis of the Traditionalist Pedagogy of the 'pilchas'
- EDWARD CURTIS MEETS THE KWAKWAKA'WAKW "IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS":
- Tourist Objects and Objectives: Transformations in Material Culture of Tourism
- Job Announcement
- Packaging Paradise: Sonic Branding of the South Pacific
- Call for Papers
- Materiality of School and Memory
- Understanding Material Culture, Ian Woodward, 2007, Sage
- Call for Papers: The Role of Visual Culture in War
- Objects of Affection: The Wedding in Jewish Life: A Colloquium
- The Body Beautiful
- Jeans in Kannur, Kerala: A Photo Essay
- Material Worlds
- Clothing Childhood, Fashioning Society: Children’s Clothes in Britain in the Twentieth Century
- Material Mansfield
- Commodity Branding Far Predates Modern Capitalism
- A city that sat on its treasure's but didn't see them...
- Giving the Extreme a Sporting Chance
- Marienne Gullestad (1946-2008)
- The Body Displayed: Etiquette in early Siamese Manuscripts
- Urban Exploration: a Subculture at a Glance
- RAI Film at the ESRC Festival of Science 08
- Ethnographic Documentation Project
- Job Annoucement: Keeper of Anthropology
- Call for Papers: 2008 Conference of the Design History Society
- Debating Extreme Collecting
- Manager, Photographic Collections
- Call for Papers - Unpacking the Collection: Museums, Identity and Agency
- Forum - the reopening of the Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Visibility and disability
- Adoption, Captivity & Slavery
- Ontology is just another word for culture
- Call for Artefacts
- World Heritage & Sustainable Development
- Objects That Look
- Where statues go to die?
- ANZCA 2008 Power and Place
- Putting Together Memories and Fantasies: The Phenomenon of Dolls’ Houses and Women in their Second Childhood
- History in Practice
- New Materials, New Technologies: Innovation, Future and Society
- Transforming Museums Conference: Call for Submissions
- Loaded out - teaching through museums and material culture
- The city reliquary
- Museums Get the Best Gifts
- Call for Papers: Toys and Culture
- ‘Making’ and ‘doing’ the Material World: Anthropology of Techniques revisited
- Market Mythology and the Cult of El Diego
- Clothing Childhood, Fashioning Society
- Managing Material Change Symposium
- Reclaiming the Sacred
- THE GLOBAL DENIM PROJECT
- Envisioning Normality
- Toward a New Organology: Material Culture and the Study of Musical Instruments
- Textile Conservation Centre (TCC) Under Threat
- THIS IS…. WARCRAFT! Or: How to Stop Worrying and Abandon Abstruse Notions of ‘Cyberspace’
- The William Fagg Anthropology Lecture 2007
- Material Culture and Surveillance in British Society
- Love Objects: Engaging Material Culture
- Kids and Home-Work in Silicon Valley
- Setting an Ethnography of Material Culture in Madrid in its Historical Context
- MATTER IN PLACE - Aotearoa/South Pacific forum for social matters
- ART / ANTHROPOLOGY: PRACTICES OF DIFFERENCE AND TRANSLATION
- London Global Eyes
- Plan B for a Nuclear Reactor: After Production Comes Preservation
- THE INAUGURAL CONFERENCE ON THE INCLUSIVE MUSEUM
- They called me Mayer July
- Extreme Collecting - AHRC Research Workshop Series
- The Serbian Gift
- Outing the water closet...
- Unclaimed baggage
- Clark/Oakley Fellowship
- Reviewing Exhibiting Māori
- Golden Fleece
- US man seeks change for $1m bill
- White African Masks: Representing Africa in a Johannesburg Hotel
- The Anne Frank Tree
- The Materiality of Sound
- The Materiality of Visitor Books: Observations from an Israeli Military Commemoration Site
- “Consumer Culture” by Roberta Sassatelli
- The ‘place’ of objects: Chinese porcelain in the museum of Spinola Palace, Genoa
- Super Sized Souvenirs
- Image as Embodiment: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
- NaMu III: National museums in a global world
- Memory and Remembrance
- Anthropology Jobs in Visual/Material Culture
- Seminar Annoucement: British Museum Centre for Anthropology
- What makes a Piece of Clothing 'Fashion'
- Emotional Design: A Review
- Culture and Property
- Television and Its Discontents
- The Wellcome collection
- The Media in Long Distance Relationships
- Biographical Subjects
- Research Assistant, Ethnographic Documentation Project
- Research fellowship in Museum Anthropology
- Muslim Fashions: A Review of Fashion Theory Special Issue
- Cultures of Consumption
- Race Online...
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Do You Remember, When"
- New Ireland: Arts of the South Pacific
- The Importance of Physical Place in the Vlogosphere
- Saving Antiquities for Everyone
- Funded PhD studentship: E –Curator: 3D colour scans for remote object identification and assessment
- Touch, Textile, Technology: Collaboration across Europe
- CFP: Ethnographies of Everyday Technologies as Material Culture
- Night at the Museum
- CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
- The Case Collection
- Job Annoucement: Research Project Assistant, UCL
- Design/Body/Sense: Physical and Psychical Embodiment in Design
- Socialism could be fun…?
- Ten Canoes
- Peter Ucko (1938-2007)
- A Consolidated Materiality for the New Harlem Renaissance?
- Bones of Contention
- The Death of Taste - the future of fashion
- Quai Branly - some images
- Hidden Histories
- Ramadan Festivals in Turkey
- State of the Art
- Cultures of commodity branding: archaeological and anthropological perspectives
- Centre for Anthropology Seminars, British Museum
- Using Film to Move a Totem Pole
- 19 Princelet Street
- Consuming Routines: Rhythms, Ruptures, and the Temporalities of Consumption
- Mary Douglas (1921 - 2007)
- Grande-Bretagne: Anthropology at Home
- An Anthropology of the Road
- Global Photographies: Histories, Theories, Practices
- Maori MARKet
- Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage
- Indigo: A Blue to Dye For
- materialworldblog - in the (NYU) news
- Musée du Quai Branly: the future or folly?
- Native leaders vent anger at opening
- ‘Indian Speak’ through an ‘Indigenous Dialogue’
- Rumors of cell phone deaths greatly exaggerated
- Who Owns Native Culture - The eSupplement
- Rethinking Prototypes: UCL Seminar Series
- Darwin, Creationism and Museums
- Indigenous Motivations
- Even more disturbing auctions....
- Touch and the Value of Object Handling
- Looking Jewish: Photography, Memory and the Sacred
- Job Announcement: Lecturer in Visual & Material Culture
- Call for Papers and Projects: Invisible Culture
- Two-Dimensional Dancing
- Reflectoporn
- Pierre Bourdieu in Algeria: Testimonies of Uprooting
- The Pleasures of the Used Text: Revealing Traces of Consumption
- The Future of Books, Open Source, and Indigenous Knowledge
- The Material Vehicles of the Circulation of Natural Knowledge in the Low Countries
- Reconciling Anthropology with Graphic Design: Postcards from Bilbao, London and Oslo
- Job Posting: Research Officer, Melanesia Art Project
- The National Museum of the American Indian
- Living with Things
- Internship
- Announcement: Oslo Summer School in Comparative Social Science Studies
- Richard Wilk's homepage
- Call for Papers
- Skilful Craftswomen of the Rich Cradle: Kazakh domestic crafts production in western Mongolia
- JEAN BAUDRILLARD
- Special Issue Forum for Anthropology: and Culture about ethnographic collections in modern museums
- Objects and Memory : Engendering Private and Public Archives
- Tinkering Through Material Culture
- Tasveer Ghar: A Digital Network of South Asian Popular Visual Culture
- Speaking of the Oscars...
- Becoming HIV: disease as agency
- Re-Materialising Colour
- Disturbing auctions
- Materiality and Immateriality: Is the concept of ‘Intangible Heritage’ useful for Material Culture Studies?
- African Memories
- Call for Papers
- Blobgects: an Experiment in the Discursive Museum.
- Material globes on material worlds – Google Earth and social change
- Footpaths
- Brazilian Jeans
- A Future for the Past: Petrie’s Palestinian Collection
- Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel
- Navajo silversmithing stamps
- Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser
- Spring Cleaning: Rediscovering and Revitalizing the Artifact
- Material Visualization of Sustainability
- ‘Anthropography’: Identity and the Material Mapping of Movement
- Photo-Objects
- Materializing Oceania: Why Things Still Matter
- Call for design and anthropology interns
- Tourist Art and Authenticity
- The Atrocity Exhibition
- Material Connexion
- The Materiality of the Funeral of King Tupou IV of Tonga
- Vik Muniz
- International Symposium of Arts in Society
- Touch and Object Handling in the Context of Museums
- Judy Attfield
- Hoarding and Disposal in Tokyo
- Mary Stevens Weblog
- Thinking Through Things
- Material Religion
- Bruce Trigger (1937-2006)
- The Cold War Expo: 1945-1975
- From East to West: The Museum of Chinese in the Americas (New York City, NY)
- A Brief History of Globalization
- The Anthropology of Money - an undergraduate project
- Oval Wall Hanging Commemorating the Coronation of King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV and Queen Halavalu Mata’aho
- Snapshots: Portrait of the Mobile
- Material Culture studies at the American Anthropological Association
- Light and Luminosity
- "Brain of the Earth’s Body"
- Hornsleth: identity cards, ethics, and 'art'
- The Lost Museum
- Museum + Anthropology = Blog, and Other Online Phenomena
- Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflicts.
- Fake Branded Clothing
- The Death of Taste
- Two Drinking Cups, Egypt 1550 BC
- Freud's Therapeutic Boxsprings
- Materialising Democracy
- Traumwerk Website
- Clifford Geertz (1926-2006)
- Where Stuff Comes From
- Review: Prelude to Totems to Turquoise - Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest
- Primitivism, eroticism, exoticism, fetishism...
- On the Circulation of Ethnographic Knowledge:
- Three objects exemplify for me the capacity of things to trigger or make thinkable otherwise elusive ideas.
- Material World - a new webspace