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Feb 21

Museum Anthropology Review @ IUScholarWorks Journals

I am very pleased to announce the official launch of Museum Anthropology Review as a part of IUScholarWorks Journals. In its new home with its new publisher–the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–MAR will be using Open Journal Systems software, the leading software tool for the complete publication of open access scholarly journals.  Read all about it on the MAR WordPress site and find the press release at IU Media Relations here. See the journal itself here. Please consider registering with the journal. Its free, it brings benefits to you, and it helps us demonstrate that the journal has a large and growing user base.

Feb 14

IU Symposium on Dress and Adornment: Call for Papers

IU Symposium on Dress and Adornment
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Call for Papers

Dress and adornment in 19th-century women’s fashion will be explored in an exhibit at the Wylie House Museum during the months of April and May.  Wylie family letters, fashion publications of the time, photographs, and later scholarship are used to put garments and accessories from the Sage Collection and the Wylie House Museum into context.  Wylie House visitors can explore timeless topics such as gendered roles, body image, trend transmission, and technology’s effects on fashion in this exhibit installed throughout the rooms of this historic house museum.

In conjunction with the exhibit at the Wylie House, The Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology presents the IU Symposium on Dress and Adornment to be held on Friday, April 18 and Saturday, April 19.  On Friday at 3 p.m., participants are invited to the Wylie House for a curator’s discussion of the exhibit to kick off the symposium.  On Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., faculty and students will present papers on the topics of dress and adornment. These presentations will take place at the Indiana University Memorial Union.

We invite paper abstracts on any topic of dress and adornment. Please submit a 250-word abstract that characterizes the twenty-minute oral presentation you propose to give at the symposium on April 19. Abstracts should accompany a short personal statement about you and your interests. Please email abstracts and personal statements as Word or Rich Text attachments to Suzanne Ingalsbe at sgodby@indiana.edu by February 29, 2008.

We hope to see you all at the Wylie House on Friday and at the symposium on Saturday.

Jason Jackson, Suzanne Ingalsbe, and Pravina Shukla, Symposium Organizers

Feb 9

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Major Article Published by Flory Gingging

Congratulations to Flory Gingging on the publication of her paper “”I Lost My Head in Borneo”: Tourism and the Refashioning of the Headhunting Narrative in Sabah, Malaysia.”
as the lead article in the new issue of Cultural Analysis (volume 6, 2007). It is a major paper made even more interesting in publication by the detailed commentaries provided by two very prominent scholars in the field–Beth Conklin and Cristina Bacchilega. Flory’s paper began as an fine essay in the Contesting Culture as Property seminar I taught in 2004. Congratulations to Flory and to the excellent folks who are working to build and sustain a major open access journal for folklore and anthropology.

Feb 8

Reviewed: The Flood Myths of Early China

Congratulations to Xiaohong Chen on the appearance of her review of the book The Flood Myths of Early China by Mark Lewis in JFRR. Find Xiaohong’s review online here.