3-0685 UNRULY THINGS: MUSEUMS AND THE CO-PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-15:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Alison K Brown (University of Aberdeen) and Gwyneira L Isaac (Smithsonian Institution)

Chairs: Joshua A Bell (Smithsonian)

Discussants: Les Field (University of New Mexico)

13:45

Museum Collections and Archaic Indigenous Terminology: Anishinaabe Language As An Analytic Tool

Alan Corbiere (Ojibwe Cultural Foundation)

14:00

Handling the Sacred: Negotiating Meaning In Early Twentieth Century Onkwehonwe Material Culture

Stacey Anna-Marie Loyer (Carleton University)

14:15

“Our Ancestors Have Come to Visit”: The Blackfoot Shirts Project and the Revitalization of Cultural Knowledge

Alison K Brown (University of Aberdeen) and Laura Peers (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)

14:30

Encoded Knowledge In Material Culture: Lakhóta Ethnobiology and the Ethnological Collections of the National Museum of Natural History

Clark Todd Sage (Indiana University)

14:45

'How Clever of Those Old People': Archives As Ghosts of the Present In Blue Mud Bay

Frances E Morphy (Australian National University) and Howard Morphy (Australia National University)

15:00

Discussant

Les Field (University of New Mexico)

15:15

Discussion

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