Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China
I am happy to announce the opening of a small exhibition titled Shoulder Bags and Ethnic Identity in Southern Yunnan, China. For such a small exhibition, the project…
Tag: material culture
The Practice of Not Knowing
This is a comic that explores the affective experience of sharing a built environment and material cultures, making and re-making more-than-human kinship, and dealing with anticipatory grief with…
“A Culture Carried: Chin Basketry in Central Indiana”: Five Questions for Exhibition Curator Jon Kay
Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana, an Associate Professor of Folklore, and Interim Executive Director of Arts and Humanities, all at Indiana University Bloomington. In this…
“A Culture Carried: Chin Basketry in Central Indiana”: Five Questions for Exhibition Curator Jon Kay
Jon Kay is Director of Traditional Arts Indiana, an Associate Professor of Folklore, and Interim Executive Director of Arts and Humanities, all at Indiana University Bloomington. In this…
“Zomi Town”
Zomi Town [Enclave], [via] City of Tulsa, Muscogee Nation, [via] Tulsa County, [via] [State of] Oklahoma, United States Visited June 14, 2024* This is the twenty-second post in…
“Field Huts” Among the Upland Tai and Dai
I am presently reading a chapter in the monumental Fowler Museum exhibition catalog The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia (Los Angeles: UCLA Fowler Museum of…
Shuikou Town
Shuikou, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 10, 2019 This is the Twentieth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the Southeast…
Defeng (Dong) Village
Defeng [Dong Administrative] Village, Leidong Yao and Shui Ethnic Township, Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited July 8-9, 2019. This is the s…
Caiyanghe Village
Caiyanghe [Natural] Village, Manazhuang [Administrative] Village, Mengyang Town, Jinghong [County-Level] City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 24, 2023. …
Saint Paul
[Hmongtown Marketplace], Frogtown [Neighborhood], Saint Paul [City], Ramsey County, [State of] Minnesota, United States. Visited October 18-19, 2017. This is the fifteenth post in the series: V…
Zhaicong [Dong] Village
Zhaicong [Natural, Dong] Village, Tongle Miao Ethnic Township, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou [Prefecture-Level] City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Visited July 18, 2018. …
Madeng [Bai] Town
[Near] Madeng [Bai] Town, Jianchuan County, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited June 5, 2023. This is the thirteenth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Shuanglang [Bai] Town (2013)
Shuanglang [Bai] Town, Dali [County-Level] City, Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China (2013). Visited December 11, 2013. [These images are from 2013, but Shuanglang was also visited Ma…
Longjia [Miao] Village
[Suojia (a.k.a. Suoga) [Longhorn] Miao Eco-Museum], Longjia [Miao] Village, Suoga Miao, Yi, and Hui Ethnic Township, Liuzhi Special District, Liupanshui [Prefecture-Level] City, Guizhou, China. [A…
Gaodang [Buyei, Buyi] Village
Gaodang [Buyei, Buyi] Village, Ningxi Subdistrict, Zhenning Buyei and Miao Autonomous County, Anshun [Prefecture-Level] City, Guizhou, China. Visited March 15, 2015. This is the tenth post in t…
Guandong [Dong] Town
Guandong Town, Congjiang County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou, China. Visited December 9, 2014. This is the nineth post in the series: Villages and Towns of the…
Lijiang [Old] Town
Lijiang [Old] Town [a.k.a. Dayan Old Town], Gucheng District, Lijiang [Prefecture-Level] City, Yunnan, China. Visited June 6, 2023. This is the eighth post in the series: Villages and Towns…
Manjinghan [Dai] Community
Manjinghan [Dai] Community [a.k.a. “Manjinghan Village”], Gasa Subdistrict, Jinghong [County-Level] City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 25, 2…
Nannuoshan [Hani] Village
[Hani Culture Park,] Nannuoshan [Hani Administrative] Village, Gelanghe Hani Ethnic Township, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 26, 2023. …
CFP: Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation
Check out this call for papers for an promising meeting to be held at the Estonian National Museum in Tartu. Conference call for papers Sustainability in Practice: DIY…
A Honeysuckle Basket by Joan Shoemaker (Cherokee)
Pictured here (Figure 1) is a seed pot-style (i.e. globe shaped with a small opening) basket by Joan Shoemaker (b. 1937) (Cherokee Nation) (then) of Locust Grove, Oklahoma.…
Article: “Kultuuriline omastamine kultuurimuutusena” in Studia Vernacula 14
More good news in terms of publication work. I am pleased to share that my article “Kultuuriline omastamine kultuurimuutusena” is now published in Estonian in the wonderful journal…
Article: “A Survey of Contemporary Bai Craft Practices in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China” in Museum Anthropology Review 16(1-2)
I am very happy to note a new co-authored article titled “A Survey of Contemporary Bai Craft Practices in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China.” It was…
Article: “Basketry among Two Peoples of Northern Guangxi, China” in Asian Ethnology 81(1-2)
I am very happy to note the publication of “Basketry among Two Peoples of Northern Guangxi, China” in the latest double issue of Asian Ethnology. This article is…