Blog managed by Museum Anthropology Blog Intern, (Communications Committee)
Lillia McEnaney, New York University (2014-2019)

Museum Anthropology Editorial Team

Lea S. McChesney, Editor

Laura W. Steele, Editorial Assistant

Christine Weeber, Copy Editor

McChesney and Steele, University of New Mexico

Welcome to our revamped blog!

Over this past year, we have been brainstorming new and innovative ways to make our blog as reciprocal, reflexive, and engaged as can be.

We are therefore opening a community-wide call for submissions and contributions. We want to highlight your voices – the people in the field, doing museum anthropology every day.

See our recently opened Call for Contributions here.

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Museum Anthropology, the journal for the Council for Museum Anthropology, published by Wiley-Blackwell. Email related to the journal can be sent here.

Anthropology News Columns, American Anthropological Association. Email related to the CMA Column in Anthropology News can be sent here.

Save the Date: 2019 Council for Museum Anthropology Conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico

Call for Session Ideas:

Dear CMA Friends,

We hope you will be able to join us for the second biennial CMA meeting, which will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico from September 26 – 28, 2019. We are structuring a dynamic three-day conference that will foster dynamic and diverse conversations in our field, while also directly engaging with the particular placement of Santa Fe. The first day of our meetings will be on Museum Hill, home to the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology and the Museum of International Folk Art, and the nearby School of Advanced Research will host an evening program. The second day will be partially hosted by the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the third and final day will be hosted by a Native community.

The theme of our meeting will be Museums Different, and to match our desire for an innovative and creative conference, we are seeking proposals for session structures that will set our conference apart. What do you wish academic conferences looked like? How can we break down the barriers between theory and practice through our collective conversations? Please send session format ideas, comments, or suggestions to cmaconference2019 [@] gmail.com by March 1, 2019.

The call for papers will be issued soon, and the deadline for those submissions will be May 6, 2019, with applicants being notification by June 3, 2019.

CMA Inaugural Conference: Museum Anthropology Futures

In May 2017, CMA held its inaugural conference at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. See the conference program here. Follow social media updates from conference ethnographers with the hashtag #museumfutures2017

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Images courtesy of the conference ethnographers, Emily Cain, Haley Bryant, and Lillia McEnaney

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Do you teach a course on museum anthropology?

In an effort to promote discussion and share resources about teaching and pedagogy in our field, we invite you to email us your syllabus so that we can post reading resources and themes for teaching Museum Anthropology to our blog. Please send your syllabi or reading lists to us. Thank you!

Position Announcement: Senior Collections Manager, Osteology Division, University of New Mexico

February 05, 2019