Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode Museum
Museum Anthropology Review This work is an exhibition review considering Beyond Compare: Art from Africa in the Bode Museum, a project of the Bode Museum….
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Shapes of the Ancestors: Bodies, Animals, Art, and Ghanaian Fantasy Coffins
Museum Anthropology Review This project report describes the research and presentation of Shapes of the Ancestors: Bodies, Animals, Art and Ghanain Fantasy Coffins, an exhibition focusing on the workshop of…
Sensefield: An Exhibition of Experimental Ethnography
Museum Anthropology Review This project report describes Sensefield: An Exhibition of Experimental Ethnography, an event showcasing works at the intersection of art and anthropology held in October 2017 in Taipei,…
Exhibiting Moments: Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures
Museum Anthropology Review In 1973, Indiana University’s Mathers Museum of World Cultures purchased a selection of works from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ Qualla Arts and Crafts Mutual, one…
Traditional Arts Indiana’s Bicentennial Exhibition
Museum Anthropology Review This project report describes the planning, creation and touring of a 26-panel traveling exhibition about Indiana folk arts staged for the bicentennial of Indiana’s statehood. The exhibition,…
Histories and Realignments: Museum Anthropology Review in a New Era
Museum Anthropology Review In an editorial, Museum Anthropology Review editor Jason Baird Jackson discusses the history of the journal as a context for explaining plans to reorient it to focus…
The American Folklore Society-China Folklore Society Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, 2013-2016
Museum Anthropology Review Emphasizing its museum-focused sub-project, this report describes the second phase of the China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (2013-2016). Supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, the…
Museum Cooperation Between Africa and Europe: A New Field for Museum Studies (Laely, Meyer, and Schwere, eds.)
Museum Anthropology Review This work is a book review considering the title Museum Cooperation Between Africa and Europe: A New Field for Museum Studies edited by Thomas Laely, Marc Meyer,…
Ramblings in Search of an Exhibition: Beadwork Adorns the World
Museum Anthropology Review In this project report, exhibition curator Marsha Bol discusses the origins and scope of the 2018-2019 Museum of International Folk Art exhibition Beadwork Adorns the World. The…
Laestadius, Laestadianism and contemporary Sami and Tornedalian literature
Approaching Religion Review of Anne Heith’s Laestadius and Laestadianism in the Contested Field of Cultural Heritage: A Study of Contemporary Sámi and Tornedalian Texts (Umeå University, 2018)….
Interesting viewpoints on Laestadianism in Finland
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Doctoral theses on Laestadius and the Laestadian movement 1937–2018
Approaching Religion The scope of the review is all doctoral theses that exist on Laestadius and the Laestadian movement. A total of 31 doctoral theses on Laestadius and the Laestadian…
A research history of Laestadianism in Norway
Approaching Religion This article provides an overview and discusses the history of research on Laestadianism in Norway over the last 60 years. Research history earlier than 1960 and doctoral theses…
Depictions of Laestadianism 1850–1950
Approaching Religion The issue to be discussed here is how society’s views of the Laestadian revival has changed over the course of the revival movement’s first 100 years. The article…
Approaching Laestadianism as an insider researcher
Approaching Religion In this article, I discuss my experiences of being an insider researching Laestadianism. I present my research, noting the advantages and disadvantages, ending with a conclusion in which I…
The Firstborn Laestadians and the sacraments
Approaching Religion Firstborn Laestadians represent one branch of the Laestadian revival movement following the so-called Great Division of around the turn of the twentieth century. This article examines two concepts;…
Care, longing, and control
Approaching Religion This article analyses representations of Conservative Laestadianism in contemporary Finnish and Finnish-American popular culture. Drawing from political studies, religious studies and cultural studies, the article sheds light on…
Approaching Laestadianism
Approaching Religion The aim of this thematic issue on research on the Laestadian movement is to dwell with and look back on how the research on Laestadius and the Laestadian…
Book Review: Inequality, Socio-Cultural Differentiation and Social Structures in Africa
SAGE-Journals: Africa Spectrum: Table of Contents Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print….
Endogenous Obstacles to Development in Global Value Chains: Insights From the Oil and Gas Sector
SAGE-Journals: Africa Spectrum: Table of Contents Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. The World Bank promotes integration into global value chains as the path towards development. By liberalising their respective national…
Exploring the Socio-Economic Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in Marketplaces in Urban Ghana
SAGE-Journals: Africa Spectrum: Table of Contents Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. This article explores Ghana’s preventive measures for stemming the spread of the COVID-19 disease among its population and the…
Book review: Transfers of Belonging: Child Fostering in West Africa in the 20th Century
SAGE-Journals: Africa Spectrum: Table of Contents Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print….
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Anthropology in Action Journal Name: Anthropology in Action Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Pages: 57-58…