Blogs

Now Accepting Exhibition Announcement Submissions

The Museum Anthropology Editors, Tony Chavarria and Dr. Maxine McBrinn, and Blog Intern Lillia McEnaney are now accepting submissions for exhibition announcements. 

 If you would like your exhibition covered on the Council for Museum Anthropology's blog, please send an email to mua4web@gmail.com or directly to Lillia.

 Please feel free to include press releases, images, and curatorial remarks in addition to the basic exhibition announcement. 

 Although we cannot guarantee the posting of all shows, we will do our best to publish information about exhibits that we feel are most relevant to the readers of Museum Anthropology. 

Inside the President's Studio

A new feature on the AAA blog, worth mentioning, is a series of interviews between AAA President Virginia Dominguez and leading anthropologists. So far, the interview list includes:

+ T.J. Ferguson, archaeologist and AAA Executive Board member
+ João Biehl, award-winning Princeton anthropologist
+ Carolyn Sargent, medical anthropologist and former president of the Society for Medical Anthropology
+ Monica Heller, AAA Executive Program Chair for the 2010 annual meeting in New Orleans

100 Best Blogs

Yeah for the Museum Anthropology Blog! We were recently named among the 100 best blogs for anthropology students. Check out the list! Congratulations to our fellow anthropology bloggers for the honor and good work, too!

Dawn at the Museum

A well argued blog entry by Olivia Judson about the ongoing scientific value of museum collections, especially biological objects--a series of reflections offered after wandering the Oxford University Museum of Natural History's storied halls. One wonders, though, how this argument could articulate with anthropological collections, particularly as we contemplate how things made by particular cultural communities to be valued in specific cultural contexts are used for more expansive questions that answer to the history of all humanity.

To Bits of News to Note

Two bits of news to note. CMA members and other subscribers to Museum Anthropology should see print copies of the fall 2008 issue in mailboxes soon. The issue has been available for several weeks online in AnthroSource and via Wiley InterScience. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this issue.

Those interested in the AAA publishing program should be aware of the recent announcement from the association regarding a move to provide free access to the American Anthropologist and Anthropology News with a 35 year moving wall. This is a complex and interesting matter. Find the press release on the AAA website and find lively discussions on the move on Savage Minds, Long Road, Open Access Anthropology, Open Anthropology, and other anthropology and library-related blogs. See also a full length story in Inside Higher Education.