Call for papers: Social inequality at the crossroads

We invite articles, research notes, essays and book reviews that discuss how the phenomenon of social inequality is created and recreated in the context of accelerated social changes and critical junctures. We welcome texts from multiple disciplines and genres. Deadline for manuscript submissions: November 30th, 2022 Send manuscripts at compaso@compaso.eu. We live in a time […]

Zychowicz, Jessica. Superfluous Women: Art, Feminism, and Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Ukraine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020. Illustrations. 424 pp. $85.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-4875-0168-6.

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A Life in Central Europe

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Death of Mary Douglas, an Obituary

I have had the privilege of collaborating with Mary Douglas in the framework of the International Commission for the Anthropology of Food (ICAF) since 1978, but our paths first crossed much earlier, in 1962 when she was a member of the Internati…

A la Mémoire d’Igor de Garine

De Ricardo Avila
C’est avec une profonde tristesse, que nous venons vous informer du décès, survenu ce 27 juin 2018, de notre cher ami et collègue, Igor de Garine.
Igor était amplement reconnu dans le domaine de l’anthropologie de l’…

This is Not a Costume

This reflective essay describes the research design for Dressing with Purpose: Belonging and Resistance in Scandinavia, an exhibition and publication for the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This essay outlines the theoretical,…

Sitting Bull, Four Horns, and Fort Buford

New research on a set of drawings known as “Four Horns copies of Sitting Bull’s drawings” reveals that both the name and ethnic identity of the artist are unsupported. Those identifications derive from research and records of an earlier era built upon …

Introduction

This brief editorial introduces the special double issue of Museum Anthropology Review titled Studies in Museum Ethnography in Honor of Daniel C. Swan.

Exhibiting Heritage

This project report discusses the 2018 Centennial Commemoration of the Native American Church State of Oklahoma (NAC-OK). Chartered in 1918 the NAC-OK is an intertribal organization dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of its membe…

“On behalf of the family”

This article examines themes of collaboration and stewardship, the importance of cultural protocols, and the intergenerational transmission of knowledge in the context of a Haida totem pole raising ceremony held at the Denver Art Museum in November 201…