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A Call for Respect: Rethinking How Museums Care for Animal Remains

Anthropology.net

.” Ward, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, has spent years working in museums, but this experience reinforced what he and many Indigenous scholars have long known—many institutions need to rethink how they handle animal remains. “We need to reframe the way we think about museums.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value. A government agency digitizing census records might preserve official documents while disregarding handwritten notes. But what about the materials that dont make the cut?

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Application of Archaeological Anthropology and Cultural Resources Management

Anthropology for Beginners

The presentation of the findings of archaeology to the public cannot avoid difficult political issues, and the museum curator and the popularizer today have responsibilities which some can be seen to have failed. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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Learning From Snapshots of Lost Fossils

Sapiens

In museum archives, researchers found photos of remains from Paleolithic children who had belonged to a group of early Homo sapiens in Eurasia. In a museum basement, we huddled over a black-and-white photograph showing pieces of a lower jawbone and its loose teeth. Not all fossil discoveries happen in the field. 998-27-40/14628.1.30

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Cultural Relativism

Anthropology for Beginners

The idea is predicated on the degree to which human behavior is held to be culturally determined, a basic tenet of American cultural anthropology. Boas criticized the use of EVOLUTIONARY STAGES as the basis for organizing museum displays, arguing that exhibits should display artifacts in the context of specific cultures.

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Curating Immigrant Life: A Praxis of Care

Anthropology News

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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Canada treats its adjunct professors better than the U.S. does – and it pays off for students 

The Hechinger Report

The Redpath Museum on the campus of McGill University in Montreal. The research is among the latest to document the woes of what has grown into an army of 792,000 U.S. It breaks my heart.” Part-time faculty at McGill earn more, on average, and have more benefits than their counterparts south of the border in the United States.

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