MUSEUM METHODS

Welcome to blog central for ANTH 177 (Spring 2014). Students in this course maintain individual blogs in order to record their weekly lab hours and summaries, journal their brilliant thoughts about our readings, discuss our exhibit and inventory project, and generate discussion about museum-related issues, events or opportunities. This is a nuts and bolts course that complements ANTH 176: Museums, Culture & Society (an introduction to the scholarly field of museum anthropology).

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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Your Accessions Numbers

Some of you haven't posted the numbers you drew. This was supposed to be done by Tuesday so don't delay in getting those up. Remember, as well, to finish out your blogroll. All the course blogs are now linked (on the right), so you can easily scoop up the URL for all your classmates' blogs.

Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Your Blog

Once you have created your blog, I will add it to the Student Blogroll at right. Please use my university email address and include the title of your blog, as well as the URL. Be sure to add this blog to your own blogroll.

The Social Biography of Things

Do you collect souvenirs or ephemera from your everyday life and travels? Or, if you've been lucky enough, from some sojourn abroad? Where will these things end up a century from now? In an estate sale, antique store, or the home of your heirs? Perhaps in the hands of a student researcher like yourself? What kind of stories will they tell? One that reflects your own life history, means and sensibilities? The aesthetic and technological roots of their manufacture? Their own peripatetic lives as bits of material culture? The nascent years of the locale and institution in which they have momentarily come to rest? These are questions that matter in museum anthropology. And they are central to this collection and course.