 Subjects -> MUSEUMS AND ART GALLERIES (Total: 54 journals)
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- A Different, Different Direction
Authors: Jason Baird Jackson
Pages: 1 - 5
Abstract: In an editorial, Museum Anthropology Review editor Jason Baird Jackson discusses new developments for the journal, highlighting its new status as a publication of the Indiana University Press. The move of the journal’s publishing home from the Mathers Museum of World Cultures to the Indiana University Press necessitates reversing an editorial plan previously announced. As has been true for all but the past year of its history, the journal welcomes scholarly and practitioner contributions from across the full breadth of the fields of museum anthropology, museum-based folklore studies, and material culture studies.
PubDate: 2020-10-28
DOI: 10.14434/mar.v14i1-2.31252
Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 1-2 (2020)
- The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum
Authors: Timothy Lloyd
Pages: 6 - 17
Abstract: Nothing lasts forever. Every organization has a lifespan, and at some point every organization’s lifespan reaches its end. Nevertheless, even extinct organizations can achieve useful afterlives and continue to serve as resources, so long as records of their work are maintained in analog or digital archival collections, and so long as the communities they served are still coherent and culturally vibrant. This essay tells the story of an extinct US public folklore non-profit organization, The Greater Cleveland Ethnographic Museum (GCEM), a small but important organization that was active for just six years—from 1975 to 1981—in the multiethnic midwestern US city of Cleveland, Ohio. During its brief life, the CGEM was typical of US public folklore organizations of the period: small and underfunded, but with an extremely dedicated staff, many strong partnerships with ethnic communities and their leaders throughout the city, and supported by what was at the time a significant investment by government in folklore and traditional culture. Even though the GCEM has been gone for almost 40 years, the archival documentary records of its activities have been preserved through the continued dedication of its leaders and staff and the support of other cultural and educational organizations in the Cleveland area, and are still available as a community and a scholarly resource.
PubDate: 2020-10-28
DOI: 10.14434/mar.v14i1-2.29070
Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 1-2 (2020)
- Mehandi in the Marketplace
Authors: Jessica Evans Jain
Pages: 18 - 107
Abstract: Henna has been an essential part of women’s traditional body art in many North Indian communities. In recent decades, professional henna artists have expanded their businesses to offer “walk-in” service along the sidewalks of urban market areas in addition to private at-home bookings. This study examines the skills acquisition and execution of Jaipur market henna artists in order to understand how they satisfy a large customer base that demands convenience, application speed, motif variety, and overall design excellence. In addition to conducting interviews with artists and customers, the author received training from and worked alongside a closed sample of artists. Collected market designs were compared to surveyed design booklets and magazines in order to identify elements of continuity and change in designs since 1948. The data revealed that customer demands require artist training that promotes constant innovation that in turn increases popular appeal and vitalizes the tradition of henna application.
PubDate: 2020-10-28
DOI: 10.14434/mar.v14i1-2.5180
Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 1-2 (2020)
- Repair Work Ethnographies
Authors: Kristin Otto
Pages: 108 - 111
Abstract: This work is a book review considering the title Repair Work Ethnographies: Revisiting Breakdown, Relocating Materiality edited by Ignaz Strebel, Alain Bovet and Philippe Sormani.
PubDate: 2020-10-28
DOI: 10.14434/mar.v14i1-2.27132
Issue No: Vol. 14, No. 1-2 (2020)
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