Mário de Andrade, Modernism, and Brazilian Anthropology
Semana de Arte Moderna Poster, São Paulo, 1922 This year marks the centenary of São Paulo’s 1922 Semana de Arte Moderna (Week of Modern Art).[1]Funding for this article…
Author: Rosanna Dent
Conferences as Ecologies of Ideas: Epistemic Cultures of the Association for Social Anthropology of Oceania
A considerable portion of scholarly life is bound up with meetings of various kinds. For those located within academic institutions, office hours, departmental meetings, and university committees pl…
Special Focus: História dos Índios no Brasil Dossiê
This dossier features seven of the forty papers presented at the colloquium 25 anos de História dos Índios no Brasil: balanços e perspectivas da história indígena. The event…
‘Cultures in the Body’: Dance and Anthropology in Revolutionary Cuba
The short documentary Historia de un ballet (History of a Ballet, 1962) dramatizes an ethnographic encounter central to a creative process. Director José Massip followed Cuban choreographer Ramiro…
Special Focus: Fields, Furrows, and Landmarks in the History of Anthropology
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Have Anthropology Museums Become History Museums? A Visit to Museum für Völkerkunde in Hamburg, Germany
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, German universities inspired the reformation of higher learning institutions throughout Europe and the United States (Barth et. al. 2005). Early museum…