Molly Johannson and Sarah McFalls, UCL Anthropology This posting is one part of a wider project called Properties and Social Imagination – a collaboration between UCL Anthropology and Artists working at the School for Material and Visual Culture at Massey University, New Zealand. The project took several objects from theContinue Reading
This year’s Huxley Medal recipient Professor Howard Morphy takes up his award before delivering his lecture based on the past forty years of his research amongst the Yolngu people of Northeast Arnhem Land in Australia. @ the IUAES World Congress, University of Manchester 08.08.2013 Continue Reading
A funded PhD offer in the field of Visual Culture at the Dept. of Communication Studies (University of Antwerp) within a project entitled ‘Cultural Displays and Encounters in Globalizing Urban Areas’. The Visual Studies and Media Culture Research Group (ViSMeC) of the University of Antwerp seeks a Full-time Researcher/PhD studentContinue Reading
The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) , as part of their Arts Council-funded Engaging Curators project is looking for examples of the innovative, ethical, participatory use of ethnographic collections in community projects in museums. We want to discover if any case study materials already exist or policy documents about working with local andContinue Reading
From tea to gingerbread, this series of talks is inspired by the wonderful food, drink and feasting objects in our world collections. Respected food historians and leading anthropologists will provide fascinating insights into objects we’ve uncovered as part ofCollections People Stories: Anthropology Reconsidered – an exciting three year project focused onContinue Reading
It probably has happened to you. One day, you find by chance in a random box one of those treasured possessions of your childhood: a broken die-cast car, a puppet, a book…Magical stuff that once was so powerful that it could suspend any distinction between dreams and reality. What isContinue Reading
Rebecca Martinezs Photos of Lifelike Baby Dolls at NYTimes.com. Continue Reading
School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Australia Application deadline: 31 October 2012 This three-year scholarship is for a PhD candidate will contribute to the fieldwork for an ethnographic study of mobile and social media in 1-2 Pacific countries. S/he will spend at least 12 months over the three yearsContinue Reading
The University of Brighton and the University of Chichester Consortium are inviting applications for one doctoral award in Museum Studies to commence in January 2013. This studentship is part of the Consortium’s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Block Grant Partnership (Capacity Building) secured in 2011. Award: Museum Studies PhDContinue Reading
From Prof. Cory Kratz, Emory University: Emory University recently launched an online archive of Ivan Karp’s (1943–2011) published papers in order to keep his work widely available. Karp was a social anthropologist and a leading scholar of social theory, museum and heritage studies, and African studies. He began hisContinue Reading
Haidy Geismar, NYU We have recently migrated Material World to a wordpress template which has given us a lot more functionality and flexibility with the kinds of things we can do. We are hoping to experiment a lot more with images, sound, and video so please be experimental and expansiveContinue Reading