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Museum Anthropology Blog Manager

Lillia McEnaney, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology (2014-present)

Museum Anthropology Editorial Team


Hannah Turner (Editor), Assistant Professor, School of Information, University of British Columbia

Chase Nelson (Editorial Assistant), Candidate for MASLIS, School of Information, University of British Columbia

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We have an open a community-wide call for submissions and contributions. We want to highlight your voices – the people in the field, doing museum anthropology every day.

See our Call for Contributions here. 

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Do you teach a course on museum anthropology?


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CMA Second Biennial Conference: Museums Different, Santa Fe, NM

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Images courtesy of Sven Haakanson

CMA Museum Methods Workshop, 2019 AAA/CASCA Conference @ Museum of Anthropology, Univeristy of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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CMA Inaugural Conference: Museum Anthropology Futures, Montreal, Canada

In May 2017, CMA held its inaugural conference at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. See the conference program here. Follow social media updates from conference ethnographers with the hashtag #museumfutures2017  

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Images courtesy of the conference ethnographers, Emily Cain, Haley Bryant, and Lillia McEnaney

UBC’s Museum of Anthropology opened 37 years ago

June 06, 2013
The Vancouver Sun celebrates the anniversary of the opening of the Museum of Anthropology with "This Day in History: May 30, 1976" here and a photo essay here. 
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