5-0215 MUSEUMS AND COMMUNITIES

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

08:00

Introduction

08:15

Stylistic and Symbolic Changes In Women’s Beaded Collars Among Lower Colorado Yuman Societies

Katherine Elizabeth Brooks (University of Arizona)

08:30

‘Conflicted Memories’: Negotiating the Colonial Legacy At the Hong Kong Museum of History

Emily W Stokes-Rees (Brown University/Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology)

08:45

Marketing Ethnicity: The Museum-Making of An Urban Ethnic Neighborhood

Jenli Ko (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

09:00

Participation At the University Museum: Older Models and Emerging Trends

W Warner Wood (University of Texas at El Paso)

09:15

Discussion

09:30

Break

09:45

Take It to the Walls: Anthropology, Relational Art, and Community Engagement

Christina Kreps (University of Denver)

10:00

A New Approach to Museum Exhibits of Native American Contemporary Arts

Joanne M Mack (University of Notre Dame)

10:15

Your History, My History, or Our History?: Visitor Identity and Articulations of Connectedness and Belonging At An African American Museum

Olivia A Littles (University of Washington)

10:30

Colonial Commodification and the Performance of Culture: The Legacy of Humans On Display

Rebecca R Mendelsohn (University at Albany, SUNY)

10:45

Advocating for Arts Funding: Values Translated Into the Political Arena of Power and Exchange

Carol Ghiorsi Hart ()

11:00

Discussion

11:15

Discussion

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