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The Case of Hostile Terrain ’94 at the University of Oregon 

Anthropology News

At the University of Oregon, we built a collaborative team of faculty and museum staff to bring students, campus, and community stakeholders together in planning and implementing an exhibition of an installation of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) Hostile Terrain 94 exhibition.

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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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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

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Despite my training and my experience with adjacent fields, such as anthropology and philosophy, I became increasingly disdainful of the sprint toward objectivityan oasis mirage, especially as a historian of Africa. In Survival Notes , I recognize the tradition that so many women before me started. The archive was a burial site.

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Gathering Firewood—and Redefining Land Stewardship—at Bears Ears

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Since European contact, Indigenous people have struggled to protect the lands —which outsiders often describe as a vast “ outdoor museum ”—from vandalism and desecration, organizing through formal and informal channels for the protection of the Bears Ears landscape. It’s too early to tell the overall impacts of this plan’s implementation.

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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.

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Large-scale digitization projects, such as those undertaken by museums or archives, often prioritize materials based on perceived cultural or historical value. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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Sally McLendon

Anthropology News

She was part of a pioneering generation of women academics who helped open the fields of anthropology, linguistics, and Native American Studies to women and Indigenous scholars. Sally spent her career in New York City, as Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center.

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