New Issue Now Available In AnthroSource!

I am pleased to report that the latest issue of Museum Anthropology [31.1 Spring 2008] is now accessible in AnthroSource. Readers can find it online here. Check it our to learn about Kwakwaka'wakw t-shirts (Aaron Glass), the Ghana National Museum (Arianna Fogelman), and Lev Shternberg's museum work (Sergei Kan). [Thank you authors!] Or reflect first upon Henry Glassie's reflections on the exhibition and study of Japanese ceramics or meditate on James Clifford's meditation on Jennifer Kramer's book Switchbacks. [Thank you review essay authors!] Or read the issue backward, starting with fine reviews by Nancy Steinhardt (on Chinese silk and ceramics), Laurel Kendall (on Pacific Voices), Mu Peng (on Taiwanese paper sculpture) or Alex De Voogt (on Asian games). [Thank you reviewers!]

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Museum Anthropology 31(1)

I am pleased to report two sightings of the much anticipated Spring 2008 issue of Museum Anthropology [=31(1)]. Yesterday I noticed its digital presence inside Blackwell Synergy, (one of) the digital publishing platform(s) of the journal's new publishing partner Wiley-Blackwell. I do not know how many people have access to the journal via this route, but the at least the Table of Contents and Abstracts (and various typographic irregularities) are accessible via this route. From the printer today I recieved advance paper copies, which suggests that CMA members and other print edition subscribers should see copies in the mailboxes (or on library shelves) soon. Unfortunately, as of a moment ago, it was not yet present inside AnthroSource. Thanks go to all of the authors and peer-reviewers who make the journal possible.

Spring Issues--Museum Anthropology and Museum Anthropology Review

I regret that the Spring 2008 issue of Museum Anthropology is still in production and not yet in mailboxes or posted online. It remains in the works with the publisher. For Museum Anthropology readers who are longing for new work in our field, I can announce that the the next issue of Museum Anthropology Review (volume 2, number 1, Spring 2008) has just appeared online. It features several reviews and two fine peer-reviewed articles. The first of these is by Jin Feng and it describes and interprets a village temple in northern Shaanxi province, China. The article includes a large number of beautiful color images. The second article is by C. Kurt Dewhurst, Narissa Ramdhani, and Marsha MacDowell. It documents and reflects upon a major heritage sector development project pursued jointly between a group of South African and United States museum professionals.

Find the entire issue online in free, open access format here. While visiting the site, please consider registering. Its free, it provides an option for recieving tables of contents by email, and it helps show your support for the journal. Look for the Information--For Readers link.

Notice of New Website

Dear friends and colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce the official launch of our new website developed in support of our current project:

EDWARD CURTIS MEETS THE KWAKWAKA'WAKW “IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS”:
Curtis’s Landmark 1914 Silent Film of Pacific Northwest First Nations Culture—Restored, Re-evaluated, and Framed with a Live Orchestral Arrangement of the Original Score and a Performance by the Gwa’wina Dancers, Descendants of the Indigenous Cast.

This collaborative project approaches the film from two distinct but overlapping perspectives: As a scholarly recovery and restoration of the original melodramatic contexts and content of the film and musical score; and as an indigenous re-framing of this material given unique Kwakwaka'wakw perspectives on the original film, its specific cultural content, and its historical context of production.

Please visit: http://www.curtisfilm.rutgers.edu

The website functions as the gateway to partner institutions that are hosting public screening/performance events and related programming in June 2008 (in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Vancouver) and in November 2008 (in Chicago, Washington DC, and New York City). In addition, the site provides a thorough scholarly introduction to Curtis's film, to the central role of the Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl) in its production, and to the new archival discoveries that have led to its current restoration. It also includes extensive media relating to the film's production as well as contemporary Kwakwaka'wakw culture.

Please circulate this widely to individuals and groups who may share an interest in Edward Curtis, film history, and First Nations. We hope to see many of you at the public events later this year.

Your Curtis project coordinators,

Aaron Glass
Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
University of British Columbia

Brad Evans
Associate Professor of English
Rutgers University

Andrea Sanborn
Executive Director
U'mista Cultural Centre

New Job Opening

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, an award winning community-based arts organization and sponsor of nationally renowned Crossroads Quilters, based in historic Port Gibson, Mississippi, is seeking qualified candidates for Executive Director. Position requires leadership, fundraising, program coordination, grant writing, and general staff and facility management. Annual budgets for the past three years have ranged from $120,000 to $150,000. Additional organizational information and job description available at www.msculturalcrossroads.org. Salary based on experience. Applicants should send resume with cover letter to MCC, 507 Market Street, Port Gibson, MS 39150. The deadline for submissions is June 30, 2008 or until the position is filled.

For more detailed information, see: http://www.msculturalcrossroads.org/About/AboutFrameset.htm