“A Swift Death and Steady Resurrection: Salvage Anthropology and U.S. Museums.” March 12 at 6:30 pm UM Museum of Art auditorium This presentation will explore salvage anthropology, a movement spurred by threats of extinction faced by indigenous societies that brought millions of material culture...
Speaker: Timnet Gedar (PhD candidate, History) When: 12:00 pm on Friday, March 1 Where: UM Museum of Art Multi-Purpose Room (125) The presenter weaves together a history of the Eritrean war for independence with the practical work of writing object labels and exhibit...
Are you interested in museums, collections, or heritage sites? If so, consider applying for the graduate certificate in museum studies for Fall 2019! Details about applying can be found here.
“Humanities scholars are interested in how people organized information in the past because this tells us about their habits of mind—their intellectual world. When we put facts or things in order, we give them meaning and priority. We say: We care about this because...
Kudos to… Kristine Ronan (MSP09) published a research article last winter on collections research that she had done at Monticello, “ ‘Kicked About’: Native Culture at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello.” The full article can be read here.
James Munene (PhD Anthropology and MSP student) will discuss his work at the Ethnografiska Museet (Museum of Ethnography) in Stockholm, home to over 900 collections of African objects. This museum’s identity in a changing world and its representation of these objects will be explored.
