-- RSVP TODAY -- Biennial Anthropology Lecture 2014 Living Collections: researching Australian Aboriginal art and material culture Presented by Professor Howard Morphy Wednesday 3 September, 4:30-6:00pm Lecture theatre 222, Level 2 Parnell Building (#7) We are entering the most exciting era for museums and collections since museums became major cultural institutions in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The lecture arises reflexively out of a lifetime of engagement with ethnographic collections and focuses on a number of these that are relevant to current discourse. The themes are both methodological and theoretical and entangled with value-creation processes. They are concerned with the value objects have for research into historical and anthropological questions and the value that the objects have in society more broadly. The lecture will be concerned with how things mean and to whom they mean in the context of change and will draw attention to the dialogue between two locals ? the local of the museum where the object is curated and the local of the source community where the object originated. [Howard Morphy]Howard Morphy (BSc, MPhil London, PhD ANU, FASSA, FAAH, CIHA) is Distinguished Professor in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. An anthropologist of art and a visual anthropologist, Professor Morphy has co-edited two of the main source books in the respective fields The Anthropology of Art: A Reader (with Morgan Perkins, Blackwells, 2006) and Rethinking Visual Anthropology (with Marcus Banks, Yale University Press, 1997). He has written extensively on Australian Aboriginal art and was named the 2013 Huxley Memorial Medallist by the Royal Anthropological Institute. His current research centres on the concept of the relational museum and the creation of virtual collections that recreate dispersed ethnographic collections as a whole. If you wish to attend RSVP to [email protected] or phone 3365 3236
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