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Council for Museum Anthropology members, welcome to San José, CA! CMA is looking forward to this year’s AAA Annual Meeting, taking place November 14–18.
All members are encouraged to attend our general Business Meeting (4-0650 in the AAA program) on Friday, November 16, 12:15–1:30 PM to learn more about CMA initiatives, the journal, board membership, and upcoming events.
That evening, we invite you to a members-only reception!
San José Museum of Quilts & Textiles
520 S 1st St San Jose, CA 95113
Friday, November 16, 7:45–10:30 p.m
2018 Annual Meeting Events
There are workshops and tours at this year’s meeting that may be of interest to CMA members, including the following:
(2-0260) Archival Research 101
Wednesday, November 14, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Organizers
Diana E. Marsh
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian NMNH
Presenters
Gina Rappaport
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian NMNH
Alex Pezzati
Penn Museum Archives
Guha Shankar
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Laura Cutter
National Museum of Health and Medicine Archives
Learning Objectives
- understand the general principles that govern archival organization and descriptive practices, as well as decrypt archival jargon
- Understand the types of records that are found in archival repositories and how they may be used
- Determine strategies for locating materials of interest in archival repositories and gain skills in searching online catalogs and finding aids
Thursday, November 15, 2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
A guided tour of the Computer History Museum will highlight past and ongoing contributions of anthropologists to the development of Silicon Valley.
2018 Museum Anthropology Panels
We are anticipating a fantastic AAA meeting this November with intriguing panels sponsored by the Council of Museum Anthropology. Notable relevant and CMA-sponsored panels include the following:
Wednesday, November 14
(2-0620) Materiality, Movement, and Meaning: Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation in the Indigenous ‘Deep Local’
4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m.
Organizer and Presenter
W. Warner Wood
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Hearst Ginda Verde: Following a Textile Pattern, Unraveling a Global Mimetic Meshwork
Chair and Presenter
Hadley Jensen
Bard Graduate Center / American Museum of Natural History
The Art of Making and the Making of an Art Form: The Production and Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge in Navajo Dye Charts
Presenters
Alanna Cant
University of Kent, Canterbury
13 Grains of Maize: Material Religion and History in the ‘Deep Local’ of Witchcraft in Oaxaca, Mexico
Ira Jacknis
UC Berkeley
Interlacing Traditions: Weaving as Ethnography
David Odo
Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University
The “Deep Local” Comes to Campus: the global flow of contemporary indigenous art from Australia at the Harvard Art Museums
Discussant
Joshua A. Bell
Smithsonian NMNH
Thursday, November 15
10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Organizer and Presenter
Diana E. Marsh
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian NMNH
Chair and Presenter
Adrianna Link
American Philosophical Society
Presenters
David Zeitlyn
University of Oxford
Sarah Buchanan
University of Missouri
Ricardo Punzalan
University of Maryland, College Park
Emily Leischner
University of British Columbia
(3-0870) Institutional Reflections and Research Directions in Museum Anthropology
2:00 p.m.–3:45 p.m.
Chair and Presenter
Elizabeth Oakley
University of Pennsylvania
Our Museums, Our Selves: Reproducing Intellectual Subjectivities and Anthropological Subjects
Presenters
Christopher Green
University of Pennsylvania
Re-Collecting Race: Imaginaries of Difference at the Musée du quai Branly
Maia Behrendt
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
The Museum and the Representation of Indigenous Cultures: From Static Dioramas to Fluid and Evolving Spaces for Collaboration
Diana Marks
Independent Researcher
Missionaries, Zonians, Traders: Adaptations of Guna Indigenous Dress in 20th Century Panama
Nicole Ursin
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Understanding Museum Demographics: Historic Arkansas Museum
(3-1038) Out of the Ashes:International Solidarity and the Challenges for Rebuilding Anthropology at Brazil’s National Museum in Rio de Janeiro (Late-Breaking Session)
4:15 p.m.–6:00 p.m.
Organizers
Beth Conklin
Vanderbilt University
Chair
Carlos Londoño Sulkin
University of Regina
Presenters
Carlos Fausto
Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Aparecida Vilaça
Museu Nacional/UFRJ
Danilyn Rutherford
Wenner-Gren Foundation
Ed Liebow
American Anthropological Association
Friday, November 16
10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Organizer, Chair, and Presenter
Christina Hodge
Stanford University Archaeology Collections
Pragmatic Virtuality: A Strategic Partnership in 3D Scanning
Presenters
Margaret Bruchac
University of Pennsylvania
Approaching Reconciliation: Thoughts on Transforming Repatriation Practice
Esteban Gomez
University of Denver
Artistic Explorations of Place: Creative Pragmatism in University Anthropology Museums
Amanda Guzman
University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Museum Anthropology and Cultural Equity by Design
Louise Hamby
Australian National University
The Potential of the Berndt Flour Bin
Emily Rogers
Indiana University
Exhibiting Moments: Cherokee Craft at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Discussant
Christina Kreps
University of Denver
Saturday, November 17
(5-0235) Voices out of the dark? Contemporary museum-like practices and culturalized politics
8:00 a.m.–9:45 a.m.
Chair and Presenter
Mary Mostafanezhad
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Organizers and Presenters
Paula Mota Santos
Fernando Pessoa University & CAPP/ISCSP-Lisbon University
Bringing Slavery into light in Post-colonial Portugal
Hugo DeBlock
Ghent University, Belgium
Objects as Archives of a Disrupted Past: Art In and Out of Vanuatu
Presenters
Rachel Giraudo
California State University, Northridge
Stemming the Stoner Stereotype: Post-Prohibition Representations of Cannabis Cultures in California
Cristiana Bastos
University of Lisbon
Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage: the Portuguese in Hawaii
Kathleen Adams
Loyola University Chicago
Authoritative Aspirations, Emotional Considerations: From Toraja Grave Displays to Locally-Configured Museums
Discussant
Christina Kreps
University of Denver
(5-0415) How Experimental Are You? Museum anthropology as a catalyst for shaping the discipline
10:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Organizer and Presenter
Jennifer Kramer
University of British Columbia
Exhibiting Nuxalk Radio at the University of British Columbia – An Experimental Crucible for Healing and Well-being
Chair and Presenter
Gwyneira Isaac
Smithsonian NMNH
Have You Socialized Your Humans Yet? A graduate course in anthropology, museums and the body
Presenters
Jen Shannon
University of Colorado – Boulder
NAGPRA Comics: Risking the media for the message
Cara Krmpotich
University of Toronto
“An Anonymous Stitch in the Quilt”: An experiment in collaborative making and listening
Lea McChesney
University of New Mexico, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology
“Keeping Our Connections to Up Home”: Museum-Community Collaborations, Gendered Knowledge, and Community Building in the Hopi Pottery Oral History Project
Mark Auslander
Michigan State University Museum
This is our Home: Museums and Rights to the City in an Era of Crisis
Jennifer Kirker
The Pick Museum, Northern Illinois University
Experiments in activism: a life history approach to academic museums
(5-0800) Fostering the Anthropological Imagination: The work of Frances and Howard Morphy
2:00 p.m.– 3:45 p.m.
Organizer and Presenter
Joshua A. Bell
Smithsonian NMNH
Clever People: The Collaborative Scholarship and Transformative work of Frances and Howard Morphy
Presenters
Veronica Strang
Durham University
Looking Out From Ethnography: celebrating cultural diversity and cross-cultural comparison
Fred Myers
New York University
Engaging the Other: Aesthetics, Ritual and the Category of Art in the Work of Howard Morphy
Annick Thomassin
Australian National University
Politics, Sea rights and Fisheries Co-management in Torres Strait, Australia
Corinne Kratz
Emory University
Morphy + Morphy = Imagination²
Chair and Discussant
Francoise Dussart
University of Connecticut
Discussant
Marcus Banks
University of Oxford
Diana E. Marsh is Secretary for the CMA. Contact her at [email protected]
Cite as: Marsh, Diana. 2018. “The Council for Museum Anthropology Program in San José.” Anthropology News website, November 8, 2018. DOI: 10.1111/AN.1028