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Online supplement to Museum Anthropology, the journal of the Council for Museum Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association

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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

Call for Contributors

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.

Call for Syllabi

Do you teach a course on museum anthropology?

In an effort to promote discussion and share resources about teaching and pedagogy in our field, we invite you to email us your syllabus so that we can post reading resources and themes for teaching Museum Anthropology to our blog. Please send your syllabi or reading lists to us. Thank you!

CMA Social Media

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CMA Publications

Museum Anthropology, the journal for the Council for Museum Anthropology, published by Wiley-Blackwell. Email related to the journal can be sent here.

Anthropology News Columns, American Anthropological Association. Email related to the CMA Column in Anthropology News can be sent here.

CMA Logo

The colorized CMA logo has been redesigned from the original by Gabriella Smith with NMHU’s Cultural Technology Internship Program, a partnership between New Mexico Highlands University and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs

Museum Anthropology Leaders Interview Series

See the interviews, conducted in 2014 and 2015, here.

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

Images courtesy of Sven Haakanson

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

Images courtesy of Sven Haakanson

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