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…
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 [Natural] Village, Manazhuang [Administrative] Village, Mengyang Town, Jinghong [County-Level] City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 24, 2023. …
[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 [Natural, Dong] Village, Tongle Miao Ethnic Township, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou [Prefecture-Level] City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. Visited July 18, 2018. …
[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, 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…
[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, 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 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 [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 [a.k.a. “Manjinghan Village”], Gasa Subdistrict, Jinghong [County-Level] City, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 25, 2…
[Hani Culture Park,] Nannuoshan [Hani Administrative] Village, Gelanghe Hani Ethnic Township, Menghai County, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China. Visited December 26, 2023. …
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Social media is changing again and it seems like a good time to give Shreds and Patches more love and attention. My collaborator and special issue co-editor Michael…
Budka, P., & Bräuchler, B. (2022). The materiality of mediated conflict and resistance. In Media Res: A Media Commons Project – Theme Week “Critical Media Forensics”, 11 Feb.…
This online course for the summer semester 2021 at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Vienna gives a critical overview about the material…
The annual business meeting of the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) was held today and one of its key moments was the bestowal of the annual CMA Book…
While doing background work on FEI Xiaotong and ZHANG Zhiyi’s studies of the basketry industry(*) in Yunnan, China, my colleague W. discovered this webpage with a pair of…
If you click here, you will be taken to a Getty Images photograph by Zhang Peng/Light Rocket. The image shows a Lisu woman on her way to a…
The pandemic slows all work beyond bare necessity, but good things can happen amid the difficulties of the present. Over the summer, with a small but mighty crew…