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After The Return
V for Vendetta and the rise of Anonymous
Pasold news
CFP: "Rags and Riches"
Post-Doc: Networks of Exchange: Mobilities of Knowledge in a Globalized World
Two Positions - UCL Digital Anthropology
Making History: Antiquaries in Britain
Lights, Tinsel, Presence
Anthropologist helps protect lunar artifacts
Call for submissions: Course syllabus collection
CFP: Games+Learning+Society Conference 8.0
CfP, Objects of Affection: Towards a Materiology of Emotions
Sensate - a journal for experiments in critical media practice
CFA: CCI Winter School (21-27 June 2012)
CFP: "Objects in Motion"
Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums
STRIKE!!!
Dream Objects
Occasional Paper No. 2: A Citizen's Guide to Plastic Pollution
Two summer museum training programs for grad students
CFP: MATERIAL CULTURE CAUCUS, ASA 2012
CFP: Internet Research 13.0: Technologies
Everything Must Go
Exhibition: Reanimating Cultural Heritage in Sierra Leone
Vibrant Matter (collective reviews)
Jane Bennett lecture: "Powers of the Hoard: Artistry and Agency in a World of Vibrant Matter"
Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, After-Lives
STICKY SITUATIONS
A mini lecture on creating the Museum of History of Polish Jews
Economies of Favour after Socialism: A Comparative Perspective
CFP: Cultures of Decolonisation, c.1945-1970
Artifacts, Openness and Digital Practice in Design Collaboration
Ghost bikes: memorials to road victims blamed for putting people off cycling
MOMA accessions the @ sign...
Call for Research Proposals: Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion
The Material Culture Area of PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association)
Call for Manuscript Submissions--Cultural Histories of the Material World
CFP: Digital Crossroads: Media, Migration and Diaspora in a Transnational Perspective
Secret communication systems in Facebook
Call for Papers: Home Unmaking
CFP: Knowledge in a Box
HIGH-TECH HERITAGE: How Are Digital Technologies Changing Our Views of the Past?
CFP: Indigenous Interfaces
Commodities and Migration: Things out of Place
Sustainable Fashion
‘Ethnic by design: creative agency, aesthetics, and community in the global marketplace’
CFP: Special Issue of Human-Computer Interaction "Transnational HCI: Humans, Computers and Interactions Considered Globally"
CfP for Publication: Objects in Motion. Globalizing Technology (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013)
"Are we to hang our hearts on such little things?"
CFP: Mobile Communication, Community and Locative Media Practices: From the Everyday to the Revolutionary
CFP: Public Ethnography: Connecting New Genres, New Media, New Audiences
Persistence Resistance: Documentary Practices in India
Occupy Wall Street - The People's Library/Call for contributions
ETHNOGRAPHIC TERMINALIA 2011: MONTRÉAL – FIELD, STUDIO, LAB
CFP: Material Culture National Conference
Blast from the Past
EASA 2012 PARIS
Benches, stairs, sidewalks and the politics of urban comfort
Supersonix Conference
CFP: Political Ecology Conference
Art History and Material Culture Studies
Tenure-track job in Visual Anthropology and Materiality
CFP: Technology and Emerging Media
Notes from the Romanian Peasant Museum...
CfP - Cooking: Food and eating at home
Two post-docs in material culture at the Bard Graduate Center
Association of Critical Heritage Studies
CfP: Local and Mobile: Linking Mobilities, Mobile Communication and Locative Media
Everyday, Pre-Modern Material Culture
Museums, Photographs and the Colonial Past
When the object and the cultural meet to shape the SMS. Incorporating and ex-corporating a media of communication
Calls for papers - Accommodating Strangers? Home, Belonging and the Politics of (In)Hospitality'
Native American Art Studies Association conference
Bard Graduate Center Seminar Series 2011-12
CFP: Weird Tools and Strange Investigations
The newness of new media - call for papers
Call for Participation
Stocks, Screens, and Servers: The Materiality of Media
STS archaeology
Creating a Home from Home: Russian Communities in the UK
Museums and Maori
Call for Applications: Asst Professor of Digital and Social Media
The Magic of Other in Tourism and Travel
Visualization
CFP: Association of Social Anthropologists, Arts and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World
Digital Religion Symposium
Sensory Worlds: Environment, Value and the Multi-Sensory
Thingness @ the New School
Whatever is to become of books?: London Design Festival 2011
The Urban Portal
Council on Museum Anthropology Student Travel Award
Assembling archaeology
Call for papers: KIOSK
The anthropology of garbage...
Call for papers of International Journal of Intangible Heritage
The Lives of Chinese Objects - Buddhism, Imperialism and Display
Islam at the Metropolitan
Doctoral Fellowship/Student Assistantship: "Objects in the Contact Zone"
AT THE BOTTOM OF HANDBAGS AND THE BACK OF DRAWERS
Post-Graduation Programme in Digital Visual Culture
When does the digital make a difference? Digital media practices and identity negotiations at a New York City middle school
CFP: Staging Illusion: Digital and Cultural Fantasy
The Material History of Blindness
CFP: iConference 2012 (Culture/Design/Society)
Bunjilaka's Two Laws & Koorie Voices: Museums, Indigenous Communities and Institutional Critique.
Eco-chic: connecting ethical, sustainable and elite consumption
Call for Papers
Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology
Preston Singletary: Echoes, Fire, and Shadows
CFP: Commodifying Urban Poverty, Social Exclusion and Marginalization
LEGAL TA MOKO-OVER: MĀORI TATTOOING, COPYRIGHT, AND "THE HANGOVER 2"
Object Stories
AHRC collaborative doctoral studentship
ART/E/FACT
What are we to do with our new affluence?
Fully funded AHRC 3-year Studentship in visual anthropology at Oxford
The Sensuous Object
Music, Media and Adolescent Sexuality
Caroline Palla: 127 – Imagine a golden piggy bank with no one to spare a dime (2009/11)
CFP: Trans/national Clothing: Production and Consumption
field, studio, lab
The Material Culture of a Revolution
Moving Images
Eco-Chic: Connecting Ethical, Sustainable and Elite Consumption
Accumulation: the material ecologies and economies of plastic
MobilityShifts: An International Future of Learning Summit
CFP: Reconfiguring Radio PhD Summer School
Assistant Editor: RES Anthropology and Aesthetics
Mimesis, Transmission, Power
CFP: ‘Youth in Motion: Spatializing Youth Movement(s) in the Social Sciences’
Mangrove Music
CFP: Digital Culture: Innovative practices and critical theories
Two Full PhD Studentships at University of East London
Seeing through Rocks
Everybody Goes: Designing Age-Friendly Public Toilet Solutions
Call for Papers: Museums, Heritage and International Development
CFP: The Culture of Remix
Unearthing Small Things
LECTURESHIP (UNIVERSITAIR DOCENT) IN MUSEUM STUDIES
CfP Things in Culture, Culture in Things
Looting Matters
Exhibition Review: "Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen"
CFP: The Challenge of The Object (CIHA)
Matter and Material Culture, EJES
Photographic Traditions in South African Popular Modernities
Trash Track
Center for Network Culture Symposium Series
CFP: Transforming Audiences 3
Eric Whitacre talking about his amazing virtual choir
Museum Anthropology post on 9/11 Museum Controversy
THE CULTURAL ROLE OF STIGMATIZED YOUTH GROUPS: The Case of the Partille Johnnys of Sweden
Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Objects of Exchange: A New Approach to Exhibiting Material Culture from the Northwest Coast
Charting Material Memories: an ethnography of material and visual responses to woollen trade blankets in Canada, the USA, and Aotearoa/New Zealand
Overview of my research - for comment
Call for Workshop Participants: Critical Perspectives on Media and Social Change (Deadline: 3/28/11)
The DIY Museum: Re-Purposing the Past at the City Reliquary
Research Associate - Artefacts of Encounter
Over at Discard Studies, Defunct Models of Pollution starring Oceanic Plastics and Body Burdens
‘On the Face of it?’ Cosmopolitanism and Consumption
Art Memory Place - commemorating the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
First Monday
Tangible Things at Harvard University
Feminist Technologies Are Assistive Technologies: What the Feminist Technology Movement Can Learn from the Disability Rights Movement
Material Culture Seminars at the University of Queensland.
CFP: Museum Collaboration and Object Reproduction
Do kula canoes of the Massim region of Papua New Guinea have a bow, a stern, and prowboards?
PhotoCLEC – Colonial photography and contemporary Europe - announcing a new project
Post-Graduate Funding in Aberdeen
Call for Papers: the Materiality of Fat
Digital Kinship
"Curioser and Curioser": Conference Registration
NEW JOURNAL: First Issue of West 86th Now Available
Call for Papers
Conversations Across Time
Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA)
The crisis in Egypt and Tunisia
Call for Papers: New Uses of Music in Media
Home, Hospitality and the City
Rare Yup’ik masks (and their Surrealist pedigree) on view (and sale) this week in New York City
Session Call For Papers: (Re)Imagining Materiality
Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2011)
CFP: Iftā' on Screens: Satellite Television, the Internet and Religious Authority in the Arab World
Rock as a Self-Evolving Commodity
Aesthetics of Abandonment
Making Sense of Visual Culture
Haiti Stories / Istwa Ayiti
The material ecologies of culture
Urban Visualities: Sites and Sights of Street Art in India
Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections: The Contribution of a Crisis of Cultural Authority
Detroit in Ruins
The material culture of sport
Practising Display: Window Shopping and Window Dressing
Call for Papers and Prize for Outstanding Toy Research
Josep Llobera
The Mexican Suitcase
Book review link: The Craft Reader
A Material History of Bits
Digital Kvelling
In Kentucky, Noah’s Ark Theme Park Is Planned
Playing @ Being Social: A Case Study of Social Media and Online Games in Shanghai, China
The Twist-Ties that Bind: Garbage, New York City and You
Digital Diasporas Conference (Univ. of Cambridge)
AMNH Assistant Curator Position (Tenure Track)
Announcing Our Inaugural Occasional Paper and our new Occasional Paper Series
CFP: Material Networks/Networked Materials
Job Announcement: Museum of Ethnography, Geneva
Discard Studies
Dirt
Of Toilets and Taboos
London Global Bitters
Call for Submissions: RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film
Indigenous Craft, Call for Submissions
Call for Papers/Appel à contributions: The Paradoxes of Value
In Memoriam - Peter Gathercole
A Reluctant Locality: Place Politics in a Santo Domingo Barrio
CFP: GOLD! (The 27th Annual Boston University Graduate Symposium on the History of Art and Architecture)
Anthropology of Sport Photo Contest
An exhibition no-one will ever see....
Annual Conference of the Museum Ethnographers Group
Behind the Scenes of… Lines that Connect : Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific
The Wittelsbach-Graf diamond comes to NYC
Digitized mourning
Culture, Materials and Design - a new programme
PROTOTYPING CULTURES: SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION, DO-IT-YOURSELF SCIENCE AND BETA KNOWLEDGE
The Totem Pole: Material Transformation of a Cultural Icon
CFP: Curiouser and Curiouser PhD Symposium
Digital Anthropology: An EASA Workshop
Open Folklore Portal
Public symposium this week: Rethinking Material Culture from the Americas
Museum training short courses offered
Infrastructure
Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage Conference
Manifesto for the unmanifest
Just for fun
Journal of Material Culture - Annual Special Issue
Dialogues between suburbs: the globalization of the hip-hop movement
Call for participants/papers
Appropriating the Exotic: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives
ALUMINIUM AND MATERIALISM
Conference Call - Material Culture, Craft & Community
Three PhD Studentships in ‘Adaptable Suburbs’
Good material culture lecture series at Bard Graduate Center, NYC
Post-Doctoral Researchers (4 posts)
Council for Museum Anthropology Student Travel Award
POLYMEDIA
Museum Engagement and Applied Anthropology - Call for Papers
Call for Participation
Beginning with Breaking Up
The Social Science of Garbage - Call for Papers
VISIBLY MUSLIM
The Multispecies Salon 3
Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Queensland
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture
Bhopal: Blueprint:Endplan
Book Review: "An Infinity of Things"
The Pink and Blue Project - JeongMee Yoon
New book series: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
The Art of Theft: Creativity and Property on deviantART
Picturing the Pacific Islands: Images from UCSD's Melanesian Archive Now Online
Summer Fun 1: Exclusive Claude Lévi-Strauss cartoon
Report on "Materiality and Cultural Translation"
Land Architecture People
Review - One Day Sculpture
After Photography
New Journal--Call for Submissions
Raymond Allchin 1923-2010
Boston Stories
Postdoctoral Position in Heritage and Archaeology, Stanford University
MP3 Players, Music, and Children's Material Culture
Tasveer Ghar
PhD Studentship - Digital and Social Media Practices and Domestic Energy Consumption
Matis Indians and the economy of culture media, tourism and anthropology in the Upper Amazon
Latest update on the De Young...
Clockpunk Scenes
Position Announcement
Death Bear Wants your Unhappy Things
Belong through the Lens: A Summary of NYU’s Visual Citizenship Conference.
Material Culture and the Culture of Materials
Post-Doctoral Research Associate
Great way to share fieldnotes, photos, thoughts on paper and in pixels...
An Anthropologist looks at Engineering
From U-Matic to YouTube: A national symposium celebrating three decades of Australian Indigenous community film and video, June 8-9, 2010
Object-Image-Memory
The Artist is Present
New Photocopy rules enforced in Tibet
Museums and Restitution conference
Krabattophily
Marked for Deselection Material traces of a book culling attempt at Victoria University
Feasting with 100 Objects
TRACES…: Thinking Objects Through Remains
Augmented Retail
Sensory Studies
Researching Home
The unanticipated city: shifting urban landscapes and the politics of spectacle in Chennai.
‘Denim’ and the Dongs
Antiques Roadshow for the YouTube Generation
Update on the Jolika Collection at the De Young Museum
Call for Papers
Gay Robot Fieldwork
Symposium: Secondhand Culture: Waste, Value, and Materiality
Research Fellow - Digital World Research Centre
Sonya Kelliher-Combs in "Hide: Skin as Material and Metaphor"
Coney Island's CONGRESS OF CURIOUS PEOPLES
Cultural Heritage Now!
JSTOR wants your feedback
The Dark Side of the Gift
Peter Goodenough Scholarship in Anthropology - Extended deadline!
UNESCO position
Visual Citizenship: Belonging through the Lens of Human Rights and Humanitarian Action
Wrapping and Unwrapping the Body - Archaeological and Anthropological Perspectives
A MUSEUM WITHOUT A MUSEUM: RAMM'S REFURBISHMENT AND REBRANDING PROCESS
MEANING OF WATER
The Collector's Choice?
Call for Papers: The Circulation of Museum Objects
Genealogies Of Garbage: Historical Meanings and Practices of Garbage and their Impacts on Trash Activism Today
Call for Submissions
Do Museums Still Need Objects?
On premature aging
CALL FOR PAPERS:
British Library warns UK's web heritage 'could be lost'
Polaroid Moments
Peter Goodenough Scholarship in Anthropology
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Review 'Stone Worlds'
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: "The Material Life of Things" Project Seminar Group
EASA 2010: Crisis and imagination
museum + film
Islands of Escorts
`Fas’ book (Facebook) in Trinidad
Call for papers:
Asian/Pacific American Documentary Heritage Archives Survey
Smithsonian Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology
The return of the Wittelsbach Diamond—or is it?
Contemporary medical science and technology as a challenge for museums
Gadgets at school
Gaea Girls
A History of the World in 100 Objects
Lecturer in Anthropology, University College London
Collecting Things, Collecting People
“Everyday Practices and Representations of Domestic Space” Santiago - Chile 1930-1960”
Twitter and Facebook users respond to Haiti Crisis
Spaces of Drink
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Highlands
Making Sense of Visual Culture
Visualizing the New Utopians: The Transition Network as a Visual Community
Anthropology of Digital Media Workshop: French Association of Anthropologists
Bound by Law
The Object Reader
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM 2010
CFP: Savage Thoughts--Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude Lévi-Strauss
Head of the Gallery Laboratory Project
Truth is often stranger than fiction in the art world
Matter in Place
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Looking Flash
Information as visual culture
Contested Futures: Research into the Material Culture of Cemeteries
Ethnographic Terminalia
Soundwalk Blog
The Autopsies Project
PUBLIC EVENT: Curatorial Conversation
How Does it Matter?
Deconstructing Cinema
Quelle distinction?
Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology
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
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Highlands
Colin Turnbull's MC legacies
Amateur Passions / Professional Practice: ethnography collectors and collections
Editorship Museum Anthropology
Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Highlands
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
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Cultures of Consumption
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New Ireland: Arts of the South Pacific
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Saving Antiquities for Everyone
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Touch, Textile, Technology: Collaboration across Europe
CFP: Ethnographies of Everyday Technologies as Material Culture
Night at the Museum
CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
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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
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