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Selected AbstractsThink Globally, Publish Virtually, Act Locally: A U.S.-Saudi International Museum PartnershipCURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 1 2005Paul Michael Taylor ABSTRACT This paper examines an on-going cooperative project between the National Museum of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, undertaken within the framework of the International Partnership Among Museums (IPAM) program of the American Association of Museums. The project,Written in Stone: Epigraphy from the National Museum of Saudi Arabia,is a virtual Web exhibition of inscriptions dating from the late second millennium B.C. to the nineteenth century AD. It is undoubtedly representative of many special-purpose cooperative projects (for exhibitions, research, or other purposes) that are taking place across international boundaries between pairs or groups of museums in various countries. Such collaborations provide examples of how partner institutions can take advantage of the opportunities that globalization and standardization of museum practices offer. [source] The Making of "America on the Move" at the National Museum of American HistoryCURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 1 2004Steven Lubar This case study examines the curatorial challenges of producing a very large exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History from 1999 to 2003. This is an insider's look at how a cross-functional exhibition team worked to produce a compelling new exhibition. Among the issues addressed are: development of a theme; choice and use of artifacts; presentation organization and techniques; issues of truth, authenticity and accuracy in history exhibitions; and practical issues of exhibition team organization and contract management. [source] Best of the Sámi Film Festival 2008AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 1 2009ALISON COOL ABSTRACT, In June of 2008, the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the National Museum of the American Indian presented a screening of selections originally shown at the 12th annual Sámi Film Festival held in Norway. This marked the first time that a version of the festival, which features works by and about the indigenous peoples of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, was presented in New York. Three of the films shown,Last Yoik in Saami Forests?, Herdswoman, and Calmmis Calbmái (From an Eye to an Eye),examined how Sámi communities draw on shared traditions as a productive resource for reimagining Sámi identity in a contemporary context. [Keywords: Sámi, Scandinavia, indigenous media, ethnographic film] [source] Indigenous Media Gone Global: Strengthening Indigenous Identity On- and Offscreen at the First Nations/First Features Film ShowcaseAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2006KRISTIN DOWELL For 12 days in May 2005, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York and the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), as well as several other screening venues in Washington, D.C., hosted a group of renowned indigenous filmmakers from around the globe for the groundbreaking film showcase, "First Nations/First Features: A Showcase of World Indigenous Film and Media." This film showcase highlighted the innovative ways in which indigenous filmmakers draw on indigenous storytelling practices to create cinematic visions that honor their long-standing indigenous cultural worlds while reaching local and world audiences. In this essay, I highlight the onscreen impact through an analysis of several films featured in First Nations/First Features, as well as the offscreen impact emphasizing how the indigenous directors used this opportunity to strengthen social networks and share experience in this industry, which may develop into future collaborative film projects. [source] Colonial Legacy in African Museology: The Case of the Ghana National MuseumMUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2008Arianna Fogelman Abstract African museums were largely founded during the colonial era to house artifacts amassed by imperial agents whose contemporaneous understandings of race, evolution and culture led them to believe local populations were "backward" or otherwise "primitive." Today in the hands of independent governments, scholars frequently cite "colonial legacy" to explain these institutions' continued irrelevance to the local communities they purport to serve. Recent efforts to "localize" African museums have proceeded without a critical analysis of the "colonial legacy" concept, which both denies local agency and cultural malleability in the museum concept, as demonstrated with the case of the Ghana National Museum. [source] Museums and Mexican Indigenous TerritorialityMUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2007Paul M. Liffman Huichol Indians from western Mexico have contributed on various levels to exhibits about their culture, history and territoriality in Mexico's Museo Nacional de Antropología and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. The article compares these projects and their precursors since the 1930s in terms of changing modalities of institutional power, clientelism and indigenous agency. It also links this history to revalorizations of ethnic art and changing representations of culture and territory in legal claims. As Huichols engage new regional and global publics in these diverse contexts, they rework received images of sovereignty and the national space. [source] For Hearth and Home: African Ceramics from the Keith Achepohl CollectionMUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 1 2007Mary S. Thieme Mary S. Thieme is a museum anthropologist and ethnographer with extensive experience studying the pottery traditions of Mexico. In the 1960s she spent two years in Western Nigeria. In addition to assisting her ethnomusicologist husband in his Yoruba music research, collecting and documenting musical instruments for the Smithsonian Institution and the Nigerian National Museum, she studied drum making and researched and collected pottery and textiles for the Smithsonian. After a 30-year career working in museums, including the Smithsonian and the Museum of African Art, she is now retired and lives in Panama City, Florida. [source] Concourse and Periphery: Planning the National Museum of the American IndianMUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2002Assistant Professor Judith Ostrowitz [source] Angola's National Museum During the Civil WarMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3-4 2003Fernando Vuvu Manzambi [source] The Destruction of the Iraq National MuseumMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3-4 2003Selma Al Radi [source] Talar morphology, phylogenetic affinities, and locomotor adaptation of a large-bodied amphipithecid primate from the late middle eocene of MyanmarAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2010Laurent Marivaux Abstract A well-preserved fossil talus [National Museum of Myanmar Primates (NMMP) 82] of a large-bodied primate is described from the late middle Eocene Pondaung Formation of central Myanmar. The specimen was collected at Thandaung Kyitchaung, a well-known amphipithecid primate,bearing locality near the village of Mogaung. NMMP 82 adds to a meager but growing sample of postcranial remains documenting the large-bodied primates of the Pondaung Formation. This new talus exhibits a suite of features that resemble conditions found in living and fossil haplorhine primates, notably anthropoids. As such, the phylogenetic signal deriving from the morphology of NMMP 82 conflicts with that provided by NMMP 20, a partial skeleton (including a fragmentary calcaneus) of a second large-bodied Pondaung primate showing undoubted adapiform affinities. Analysis subtalar joint compatibility in a hypothetical NMMP 82/NMMP 20 combination (talus/calcaneus) reveals a substantial degree of functional mismatch between these two tarsal bones. The functional incongruence in subtalar joint morphology between NMMP 20 and NMMP 82 is consistent with the seemingly divergent phylogenetic affinities of these specimens, indicating that two higher level taxa of relatively large-bodied primates are documented in the Pondaung Formation. On the basis of its size and morphology, we refer the NMMP 82 talus to the large-bodied amphipithecid Pondaungia. The occurrence of anthropoid-like tali in the Pondaung Formation obviates the need to invoke homoplasy to explain the shared, derived dental characters that are common to amphipithecids and undoubted anthropoids. Functionally, the NMMP 82 talus appears to have pertained to a primate that is engaged in active quadrupedalism in an arboreal environment along broad and subhorizontal branches. The primate taxon represented by NMMP 82 was capable of climbing and leaping, although it was not particularly specialized for either of these activities. Am J Phys Anthropol 143:208,222, 2010. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Federal Repatriation Legislation and the Role of Physical Anthropology in RepatriationAMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue S41 2005Stephen D. Ousley Abstract Two laws governing the disposition of Native American human remains in museums and institutions have had a profound impact on anthropology, and especially physical anthropology. In contrast to the perception of constant conflict between Native Americans and physical anthropologists, the repatriation process based on these laws has been in large part harmonious between institutions and Native peoples in the US. Despite misconceptions, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAPGRA; 25 United States Code (U.S.C.) 3001-3013) was not intended to halt further research on Native American remains in museums. In fact, court decisions have affirmed that the documentation of human remains produces information no other methods can provide, and provides necessary evidence to be incorporated and weighed, along with other evidence, in evaluating "cultural affiliation," the legal term for the required connection from federally recognized Native American groups to their ancestors. The wide variety of osteological data collected at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, have proven indispensable when evaluating cultural affiliation, especially when other information sources are unhelpful or ambiguous, and provide an empirical basis for determining the ancestry of individuals whose remains will be discovered in the future. To date, the claim-driven process at the NMNH has resulted in the affiliation and repatriation of more Native American remains than any other institution in the country. Repatriation experiences at the NMNH demonstrate the changing relationships between museums and Native peoples, the continuing important contributions that physical anthropology makes to the repatriation process, and the importance of physical anthropology in understanding the recent and ancient history of North America. Yrbk Phys Anthropol 48:2,32, 2005. © 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source] Perspectivism: ,Type' or ,bomb'?ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 2 2009Bruno Latour In this editorial Bruno Latour reviews a debate on ,Perspectivism and animism' between Philippe Descola (College of France) and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (National Museum of Rio de Janeiro), that took place at Maison Suger, Institute of Advanced Studies, Paris on 30 January 2009. [source] Quelques nouvelles inscriptions du JawfARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 1 2010François Bron Six inscriptions recently acquired by the National Museum in (Yemen) are published. Several of these come from the temple of at as- . [source] TOWARDS A QUANTITATIVE PETROGRAPHIC DATABASE OF KHMER STONE MATERIALS,KOH KER STYLE SCULPTUREARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 2 2010F. CARÒ A comprehensive quantitative petrographic database of sandstones used by the Khmers for sculptural purposes would be a helpful tool for archaeologists, museum curators and others interested in pursuing research on early stone usage, geological source and provenance. Towards that end, this paper presents quantitative petrographic analysis of stone materials used in the production of some free-standing sculptures and architectural elements in the Koh Ker style of the 10th century from the collections of the National Museum of Cambodia and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. These materials are compared to samples from the quarry of Thmâ Anlong near the foothills of the Phnom Kulen, Sieam Reap province. Primary and secondary detrital modes and key grain-size parameters are used to identify three sandstone types. The free-standing sculptures are carved from feldspathic arenite and feldspato-lithic to litho-feldspathic arenite. Finely carved lintels are worked from a quartz arenite, which is significantly richer in quartz grains and of a finer grain size. The geological source of the two other lithotypes will have to await detailed geological survey of the Koh Ker area accompanied by petrographic study of selected samples from documented quarries. The significance and potentiality of quantitative petrographic study of Khmer stone materials are shown in supporting and integrating archaeological investigations in South-East Asia. [source] COLD NEUTRON PROMPT GAMMA ACTIVATION ANALYSIS,A NON-DESTRUCTIVE METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH SILICA CONTENT CHIPPED STONE TOOLS AND RAW MATERIALS,ARCHAEOMETRY, Issue 1 2008ZS. KASZTOVSZKY Recently, several archaeometrical projects have been started on the prehistoric collection of the Hungarian National Museum. Among the analytical methods applied, non-destructive prompt gamma activation analysis has a special importance. We have also tested the potential of this method on chipped stone tools, with the aim of determining their exact provenance. On the basis of major and trace element components, characterizations of stone tools and their raw materials,silicites (flint, chert, radiolarite and hornstone) as well as volcanites (felsitic porphyry and obsidian),were performed. We discuss some important results concerning each group, as case studies. Compiling the data set of different PGAA analysis series, compositions of 110 samples are reported, including 76 archaeological pieces. In the future, we plan to extend the number of investigated objects in each class. [source] Museum Outreach Programs to Promote Community Engagement in Local Environmental IssuesAUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, Issue 2 2007Ruth Lane Ideas of ,community' and ,community voice' have been mobilised in collaborative programs developed between the National Museum of Australia and the Murray-Darling Basin Commission since 1992. This collaboration is set within a broader context of changing ideas and practice around governance, community and environmental issues. The recent Murray-Darling Outreach Project (MDOP), a series of museum outreach projects with regional communities aiming to increase community engagement in local environmental issues in the Murray-Darling Basin, is specifically examined. Evaluation research on the MDOP found that the approach to program development significantly shaped the types of voices, range of issues presented and the nature of the communicative forums established. The potential impacts on online audiences are discussed along with broader implications for government agencies involved in community partnerships. [source] Working hard at giving it away: Lord Duveen, the British Museum and the Elgin marblesHISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 198 2004Elisabeth Kehoe In September 1928, just after the publication of the report of the royal commission on National Museums and Galleries, the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen wrote to his good friend Edgar Vincent, Viscount D'Abernon, who had chaired the commission, offering to pay for a new gallery at the British Museum to house the Parthenon, or Elgin, marbles. The new gallery cost over £100,000 and took ten years to complete, during which time Duveen worked hard to impose his vision of a new gallery , a vision often at odds with that of the Museum establishment, and one that generated controversy, including the unauthorized cleaning of the marbles. [source] The Legacies of 2007: Remapping the Black Presence in BritainGEOGRAPHY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2009Caroline Bressey The 1807/2007 commemorations of the bicentenary of the Parliamentary Act to abolish the British slave trade stimulated a large number of academic and community based projects, from small scale research to the renovation of national museums. This article reviews the academic and other literatures that informed and have emerged from these projects. It explores how contradictions, fractures and openings highlighted by the 1807/2007 bicentenary and these literatures might be taken forward and developed by geographers interested in the making of Britishness, and the relationship between public geographies and public histories. [source] The New Dynamic of Blockbuster Exhibitions: The Case of Brazilian MuseumsBULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 1 2001Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos Many European and North American museums have increasingly adapted to the new communication era. They have opened up a new cultural flux and attract millions of visitors each year. In Brazil, we have observed in recent years the acceptance of new temporary and international exhibits. What is the meaning of the new exhibiting strategies, since the most important and traditional national museums still face stagnation? Can they be considered as part of a process of democratisation and reflexivity or accused of capitulating to the consumer society? This article proposes to analyse the production, diffusion and reception of recent Brazilian exhibitions. This analysis will be carried out in relation to the hierarchy of norms, values and practices present in Brazilian society. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||