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O’Doherty, Damian, and Daniel Neyland. "The developments in ethnographic studies of organising: Towards objects of ignorance and objects of concern." Organization 26, no. 4 (2019): 449–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508419836965.

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In this introduction to the Special Issue, we review the rich tradition of ethnographic studies in organisation studies and critically examine the place of ethnography in organisation studies as practised in schools of business and management. Drawing on the findings of the articles published here, we reflect on the need for a significant extension of the content and syllabus of our discipline to include what we call objects of concern and objects of ignorance. The articles we publish show that decision makers in organizations are not always humans, and nor can we assume the human and its grou

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Flexner, James L. "Archaeology and Ethnographic Collections." Museum Worlds 4, no. 1 (2016): 167–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/armw.2016.040113.

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ABSTRACTThe archaeological value of museum collections is not limited to collections labelled “archaeology.” “Ethnology” or “ethnography” collections can provide useful information for evaluating broadly relevant theoretical and methodological discussions in the discipline. The concepts of provenience (where something was found), provenance (where the materials for an object originated), and context (the ways an object is and was interpreted and used within a cultural milieu) are central to much archaeo-logical interpretation. Archaeologists have often looked to living societies as analogues f

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Pratt, Stephanie. "OBJECTS, PERFORMANCE AND ETHNOGRAPHIC SPECTACLE." Interventions 15, no. 2 (2013): 272–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369801x.2013.798476.

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Hastings, Jesse. "50,000 Frequent Flier Miles: Thoughts on a Multi-Sited Organizational Ethnography." Practicing Anthropology 35, no. 2 (2013): 33–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.35.2.a474132344627j64.

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George Marcus (1995:96), in a 1995 paper, defined multi-sited ethnography as "moving out from single sites and local situations of conventional ethnographic research designs to circulation of cultural meanings, objects, and identities in diffuse time-space." In the 18 years since, multi-sited ethnography as an object of study and practice has gained immense popularity. Both scholars and practitioners have applied the concept to many phenomena, including migrations (Fitzgerald 2006) and commodity chains (Bestor 2001; Freidberg 2001). Several recent books explore the concept in depth (Coleman an

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Baranov, Dmitry. "DEPERSONALIZED OBJECTS: PARADOXES OF ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS." Antropologicheskij forum 16, no. 47 (2020): 113–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/1815-8870-2020-16-47-113-136.

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In ethnographic studies of material culture, things are described primarily as signs of social phenomena; but things themselves remain in the shadows. Even when it comes to museum research, a material object is considered either as an element of the classification series, or as an example of the manufacturing and living techniques in the local tradition, or as a representative of the cultural contexts from which it was removed. The very collection format of museum storage hides the uniqueness of a thing, because the collection is not able to accommodate its singular nature, since each thing is

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Middleton, Townsend, and Eklavya Pradhan. "Dynamic duos: On partnership and the possibilities of postcolonial ethnography." Ethnography 15, no. 3 (2014): 355–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1466138114533451.

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This article brings anthropologist and research assistant into mutually reflective critique of one another, the researcher–assistant dynamic, and the challenges of fieldwork in contemporary India. The authors have worked together in the politically charged, ethnologically saturated context of ‘tribal’ Darjeeling since 2006. To realize the potential of their partnership, Middleton and Pradhan were forced to come to creative terms with the problematic legacy of anthropology in South Asia. Working with – and ultimately through – the colonialities at hand, they have pursued a ‘postcolonial ethnogr

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Richardin, P., and N. Gandolfo. "Radiocarbon Dating and Authentication of Ethnographic Objects." Radiocarbon 55, no. 3 (2013): 1810–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033822200048712.

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This article describes the contribution of the radiocarbon dating method to the authentication of ethnographic objects on some significant examples coming from the collections of the Quai Branly Museum (Paris, France) and the Museum of African Arts (Marseilles, France). The first object is a bludgeon of hard wood from the Tupinambá ethnic group and thought to be brought from Brazil by Andre Thévet, cosmographer of King Francis I. This object supposedly dates to the 16th century. Another example concerns a series of architectural columns, brought from Peru in 1910 by Captain Paul Berthon from t

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Järventie-Thesleff, Rita, Minna Logemann, Rebecca Piekkari, and Janne Tienari. "Roles and identity work in “at-home” ethnography." Journal of Organizational Ethnography 5, no. 3 (2016): 235–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joe-07-2016-0015.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on carrying out “at-home” ethnography by building and extending the notion of roles as boundary objects, and to elucidate how evolving roles mediate professional identity work of the ethnographer. Design/methodology/approach In order to theorize about how professional identities and identity work play out in “at-home” ethnography, the study builds on the notion of roles as boundary objects constructed in interaction between knowledge domains. The study is based on two ethnographic research projects carried out by high-level career switcher

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Niinimaa, Gail Sundstrom. "Mounting Systems for Ethnographic Textiles and Objects." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 26, no. 2 (1987): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3179457.

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Stulik, Dusan, and Henry Florsheim. "Binding Media Identification in Painted Ethnographic Objects." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 31, no. 3 (1992): 275. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3179724.

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Niinimaa, Gail Sundstrom. "Mounting Systems for Ethnographic Textiles and Objects." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 26, no. 2 (1987): 75–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/019713687806027861.

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Stulik, Dusan, and Henry Florsheim. "Binding Media Identification in Painted Ethnographic Objects." Journal of the American Institute for Conservation 31, no. 3 (1992): 275–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/019713692806066565.

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Cruikshank, Julie. "Imperfect Translations: Rethinking Objects of Ethnographic Collections." Museum Anthropology 19, no. 1 (1995): 25–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mua.1995.19.1.25.

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Ladik, Elena, and A. Makridina. "PRINCIPLES OF FORMING OBJECTS OF ETHNOGRAPHIC TOURISM WITH REGIONAL FEATURES ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE BELGOROD REGION." Technical Aesthetics and Design Research 1, no. 3 (2020): 37–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.34031/2687-0878-2019-1-3-37-44.

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The problems of planning the organization of territories and objects of ethnographic tourism, taking into account the landscape features of the regions of the Russian Federation, in particular the Belgorod region, are relevant. The study developed regional principles for planning ethno-tourist spaces on the example of the Belgorod region. The object of research is the territories favorable for the development of ethnographic tourism objects within the Belgorod region, the subject of research is the influence of regional historical and cultural features on the formation of ethnographic tourism

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St. George, Robert. "Ethnographic Things." Ethnologies 34, no. 1-2 (2014): 3–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1026143ar.

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The social history and aesthetic value of art made by Haida people are subjects often in conflict or marked by a lack of clarity. This essay attempts to explore the things made on Haida Gwaii for different purposes: for entirely local use and in relation to one or two mythic cycles. Then, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, the collectors, dealers, and museum of the western world arrived; they took thousands of objects away, and by 1880 many Haida artists could assert continuity by making model houses, totem poles, and boats for growing souvenir markets.

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Lange, Ann-Christina, Marc Lenglet, and Robert Seyfert. "On studying algorithms ethnographically: Making sense of objects of ignorance." Organization 26, no. 4 (2018): 598–617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350508418808230.

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In this article, we make sense of financial algorithms as new objects of concern for organizational ethnography. We conceive of algorithms as ‘objects of ignorance’ jeopardizing traditional ethnography from the perspective of its categories and methods. We investigate the organizational politics taking place within high-frequency trading – a sub-field of algorithmic trading where automated decision-making without human direction has reached a peak, and show that financial algorithms raise particular epistemic and methodological challenges for practitioners and ethnographers alike. Consequently

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Sztandara, Magdalena. "“We are fed up …Being research objects!” negotiating identities and solidarities in militant ethnography." Human Affairs 31, no. 3 (2021): 262–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2021-0022.

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Abstract This article describes experiences of long-term ethnographic fieldwork on disobedience, disloyalty and dissensus among women in public space in selected (post-)Yugoslav cities. I focus on the opportunities and pitfalls of feminist ethnography and methodology in the context of positionality, engagement and solidarity as essential elements of research into activist networks. In order to problematize the emerging field positionalities and solidarities, I examine the “militant ethnography” methodological approach (Jeffrey Juris), which seeks to move beyond the divide between research prac

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De Laet, Marianne. "Patents, Travel, Space: Ethnographic Encounters with Objects in Transit." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18, no. 2 (2000): 149–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d211t.

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In this paper, an ethnographical take on objects in motion, I follow the travel of patents from their places of origin in the Western world of technoscience to newly developing worlds. I argue that not only does the influx of patents and patent systems change the sociotechnical configurations in which they emerge; the patent itself—or so I claim—changes with its travel as well, and so it is a different thing in different places. I thus link the nature of things with the places in which they operate, and frame the patent as both a changeable object and an agent of change.

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ter Keurs, Pieter. "Things of the Past ? Museums and Ethnographic Objects." Journal des africanistes 69, no. 1 (1999): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/jafr.1999.1187.

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INDRIE, LILIANA, MARILÉS BONET-ARACIL, DORINA CAMELIA ILIES, et al. "Heritage ethnographic objects – antimicrobial effects of chitosan treatment." Industria Textila 72, no. 03 (2021): 284–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.35530/it.072.03.1812.

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Chitosan is a natural polymer, which presents, according to studies made up to present, low toxicity and goodbiocompatibility. Recent studies are focused not only on its antimicrobial effects on textiles, because this polysaccharideleads to improvements such as: shrink resistance, dye uptake etc. Two Romanian traditional shirts were non-invasively tested by applying Chitosan and by investigating the SEM images,before and after applying the chitosan. The paper underlines the surface modifications of tested textiles using chitosan.The odd agents on the fibres surfaces were removed and the limita

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Fu, Diana, and Erica S. Simmons. "Ethnographic Approaches to Contentious Politics: The What, How, and Why." Comparative Political Studies 54, no. 10 (2021): 1695–721. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00104140211025544.

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How should we study contentious politics in an era rife with new forms of contention, both in the United States and abroad? The introduction to this special issue draws attention to one particularly crucial methodological tool in the study of contention: political ethnography. It showcases the ways in which ethnographic approaches can contribute to the study of contentious politics. Specifically, it argues that “what,” “how,” and “why” questions are central to the study of contention and that ethnographic methods are particularly well-suited to answering them. It also demonstrates how ethnogra

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Shott, Michael J. "Bipolar Industries: Ethnographic Evidence and Archaeological Implications." North American Archaeologist 10, no. 1 (1989): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/aakd-x5y1-89h6-ngjw.

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Bipolar objects are common in archaeological assemblages. Produced by hammer-and-anvil knapping, these objects generally are classified in one of two conflicting ways: as cores or as wedges. Although most archaeologists take the first view, the second remains prevalent in some quarters, especially in eastern North American Paleo-Indian studies. Setting forth and evaluating the corollaries of both views, this article concludes that most bipolar objects—even in Paleo-Indian assemblages—are cores. It also documents ethnographic observations of bipolar reduction at some length.

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Toșa, Ioan. "Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei și regii României." Anuarul Muzeului Etnograif al Transilvaniei 33 (December 20, 2019): 206–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47802/amet.2019.33.13.

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The author presents several archive documents regarding the relations between the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography and the Kings of Romania, providing useful information for knowing the Museum’s history. The first document presented is Decision 7487 of December 21, 1922, signed by Prince Carol; this Decision, by appointing Professor Romulus Vuia as the institution’s director, recognizes all the achievements of the Commission that Professor Vuia had established in the spring of 1922 for the purchase of A. Orosz Collection, in order to set up an ethnographic museum in Cluj. The article presen

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Lee, David J., Louise Bacon, and Vincent Daniels. "Some Conservation Problems Encountered with Turmeric on Ethnographic Objects." Studies in Conservation 30, no. 4 (1985): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1506041.

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Lee, David J., Louise Bacon, and Vincent Daniels. "Some conservation problems encountered with turmeric on ethnographic objects." Studies in Conservation 30, no. 4 (1985): 184–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sic.1985.30.4.184.

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Jones, Philip. "The boomerang's erratic flight: The mutability of ethnographic objects." Journal of Australian Studies 16, no. 35 (1992): 59–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443059209387118.

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Hanks, Michele. "Haunted Objects." Nova Religio 22, no. 4 (2019): 60–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2019.22.4.60.

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In contemporary England, paranormal investigation has emerged as a popular means of seeking knowledge about reportedly ghostly phenomena. Paranormal investigators are self-fashioned experts who aim to balance scientistic and spiritual perspectives in the hope of proving or disproving the existence of ghosts from an objective perspective. Despite their collective goal to understand the paranormal, many investigators experience profound doubt of its reality and nature. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork with English paranormal investigators, this essay examines how investigators’ engage

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Toșa, Ioan, and Tudor Sălăgean. "Din istoria muzeografiei românești." Anuarul Muzeului Etnograif al Transilvaniei 30 (December 20, 2016): 166–238. http://dx.doi.org/10.47802/amet.2016.30.12.

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The authors present the less known activity held at the Transylvanian Museum of Ethnography from 1937 to 1957 towards: Research and Conservation of the Folk Cultural Heritage; Development of a network of ethnographic museums; Establishment of circles of ethnographic researches; Capitalisation through exhibitions and publications. For the research and preservation of the folk cultural heritage there were organised research and acquisition campaigns and there were made questionnaires for finding the buildings for the National park which unfortunately could not be completed because of the war, an

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Raffai, Judit, and Ferenc Németh. "Representation of 19th century Serbian folk architecture from Banat in the ethnographic village of the Hungarian Millennium Exhibition (1896)." Zbornik Matice srpske za drustvene nauke, no. 166 (2018): 281–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/zmsdn1866281r.

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In the last quarter of the 19th century, national exhibitions had become popular in Hungary as well, following the examples of world exhibitions around Europe. A part of this process was the Hungarian Millennium Exhibition set up in 1896, which mobilised enormous energy and presented the ethnographic values of the region with special emphasis. In the Ethnographic Village of the exhibition, the counties of the country set up valid copies of 24 furnished farmhouses from their regions. Twelve of these houses were intended to present the folk culture of national minorities living in Hungary. The T

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Evans, Michael. "Creating an Inventory of Ethnographic Resources in Our National Parks." Practicing Anthropology 26, no. 1 (2004): 26–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17730/praa.26.1.60mqj156p3v411q2.

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In the latter half of the 1980s, Muriel (Miki) Crespi, Chief Ethnographer for the National Park Service, gave voice to the concept in the National Park Service of "ethnographic resources" and a systematic effort to survey and inventory national parks for their presence. Within the National Park Service at the time, "cultural resources" were archeology sites, buildings, structures, museum objects, and landscapes that were mostly historic (or prehistoric) in nature. These types of cultural resources were considered tangible objects or "properties" that had some element of historical value and co

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Vakhobov, Botirali. "ETHNOGRAPHIC GROUPS OF THE FERGHANA VALLEY." JOURNAL OF LOOK TO THE PAST 18, no. 2 (2019): 43–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.26739/2181-9599-2019-18-05.

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In given article the scientific concept of one of ethnological objects - "subethnos"reveals. Subethnos an ethnos version, and studying of its features now is necessary. The subethnos theory (ethnographic group) it was investigated on the basis of scientific views and the literature. In article the origin of subethnos and the sights of researchers connected with it is consecrated

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Zedeño, María Nieves. "Animating by Association: Index Objects and Relational Taxonomies." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 19, no. 3 (2009): 407–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774309000596.

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Despite great variability in archaeological and ethnographic material culture across North America, a handful of objects are ubiquitous in assemblages of different ages and geographies. These index objects are clues to ontological principles, such as animacy, that guide the interactions between Native Americans and the material world. The impact of relational ontologies on the formation of heterogeneous archaeological assemblages may be evaluated through analyses of index objects and contextual associations. To this effect, this article presents the outline of an assemblage-based relational ta

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HANDLER, RICHARD. "Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany." American Anthropologist 106, no. 3 (2004): 631. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/aa.2004.106.3.631.1.

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Kyriakides, Theodoros. "Tactics as ethnographic and conceptual objects: introduction to special section." Social Anthropology 26, no. 4 (2018): 452–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12584.

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Huysecom, Eric, Irka Hajdas, Marc-André Renold, Hans-Arno Synal, and Anne Mayor. "The “Enhancement” of Cultural Heritage by AMS Dating: Ethical Questions and Practical Proposals." Radiocarbon 59, no. 2 (2016): 559–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rdc.2016.79.

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AbstractThe looting of archaeological and ethnographic objects from emerging countries and areas of conflict has prospered due to the high prices that these objects can achieve on the art market. This commercial value now almost necessarily requires proof of authenticity by the object’s age. To do so, absolute dating has been conducted since the end of the 1970s on terra cotta art objects using the thermoluminescence method, a practice that has since been condemned. It is only more recently, since the 2000s, that art dealers and collectors have begun to use the accelerator mass spectrometry (A

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Rafael, Ulisses N., and Yvonne Maggie. "Sorcery objects under institutional tutelage: magic and power in ethnographic collections." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 10, no. 1 (2013): 276–342. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412013000100014.

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This essay returns to a discussion of two collections of objects taken from two terreiros (places of worship) for Afro-Brazilian cults, namely the Magia Negra (Black Magic) collection at the Museu da Polícia do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro Police Museum) and the Perseverança collection at the Instituto Histórico e Geográfico de Alagoas - IHGAL (Alagoas Historical and Geographical Institute), in Maceió. In both cases we looked at how members of Brazil's elite are involved in sorcery and how members of this elite circulate in candomblé, xangô, umbanda and other terreiros. In this essay, in par

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Sandy, Mark, and Louise Bacon. "INVESTIGATION INTO THE DEGRADATION OFRAPHIAPALM LEAF MATERIAL USED IN ETHNOGRAPHIC OBJECTS." Studies in Conservation 45, sup2 (2000): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/sic.2000.45.s2.026.

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Sherman, D. J. ""Peoples Ethnographic": Objects, Museums, and the Colonial Inheritance of French Ethnology." French Historical Studies 27, no. 3 (2004): 669–703. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00161071-27-3-669.

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George, Kenneth M. "Objects on the loose: Ethnographic encounters with unruly artefacts a foreword." Ethnos 64, no. 2 (1999): 149–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.1999.9981595.

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Franey, Laura. "ETHNOGRAPHIC COLLECTING AND TRAVEL: BLURRING BOUNDARIES, FORMING A DISCIPLINE." Victorian Literature and Culture 29, no. 1 (2001): 219–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015030129113x.

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“To tell you the truth, Stein,” I said, with an effort that surprised me, “I came here to describe a specimen. . . .” “Butterfly?” he asked, with an unbelieving and humorous eagerness. “Nothing so perfect,” I answered, feeling suddenly dispirited with all sorts of doubts. “A man!” “Ach so!” he murmured, and his smiling countenance, turned to me, became grave. Then after looking at me for a while he said slowly, “Well — I am a man, too.”— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim(ellipsis in original)ETHNOGRAPHIC TRAVEL ACCOUNTS AND THE COLLECTING of objects — whether body parts or cultural products — functioned

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PETROU, MARISSA H. "Apes, skulls and drums: using images to make ethnographic knowledge in imperial Germany." British Journal for the History of Science 51, no. 1 (2018): 69–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087418000018.

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AbstractIn this paper, I discuss the development and use of images employed by the Dresden Royal Museum for Zoology, Anthropology and Ethnography to resolve debates about how to use visual representation as a means of making ethnographic knowledge. Through experimentation with techniques of visual representation, the founding director, A.B. Meyer (1840–1911), proposed a historical, non-essentialist approach to understanding racial and cultural difference. Director Meyer's approach was inspired by the new knowledge he had gained through field research in Asia-Pacific as well as new forms of ima

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Staples, Amy J. "Visualism and the Authentification of the Object: Reflections on the Eliot Elisofon Collection at the National Museum of African Art." Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals 3, no. 2 (2007): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/155019060700300209.

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Photographic resources are well known within museum contexts. However, these images are rarely considered in terms of how they enhance the historical value of museum objects, construct aesthetic and ethnographic meanings, and interpret museum collection practices. This paper examines the multi-media collections of Eliot Elisofon, an internationally known photographer and filmmaker who traveled in Africa from 1943-1972. The Elisofon collection at the National Museum of African Art contains both photographic materials and three-dimensional objects created and collected in the course of Elisofon'

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Waller, Laurie. "Curating actor-network theory: testing object-oriented sociology in the Science Museum." Museum and Society 14, no. 1 (2017): 193–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v14i1.634.

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Across different traditions of social research, the study of science exhibitions has often taken the form of an ‘object-oriented’ inquiry. In this tradition, actor-network theory (ANT) has focused on how the processes of exhibiting objects mediate relations between science and society. Although ANT has not developed as a theory of curating, it nonetheless contributes to revaluing the work performed by curators in relation to the practice of science. This article describes an ethnographic engagement with a curatorial experiment in a science museum which staged a ‘multi-viewpoint’ exhibition of

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Jungová, Gabriela. "Daneš the Collector: Pacific Journeys of J. V. Daneš and his Collection in the Náprstek Museum." Annals of the Náprstek Museum 38, no. 2 (2017): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/anpm-2017-0029.

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J. V. Daneš (1880–1928) was not only an outstanding figure of his time in the international scientific community, but also a diplomat and a traveller. Two of his overseas trips led him to Australia and the Pacific region, where he assembled a remarkable collection of ethnographic objects and photographs. This collection, now kept in the National Museum – Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures in Prague, has been mostly neglected and unpublished for decades. This paper provides a basis for its further study by introducing Daneš’s journeys around the region and comparing them to

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Charlier, Bernard. "Du chasseur au loup, du loup à l’«objet»." TSANTSA – Journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association 20 (May 1, 2015): 41–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.36950/tsantsa.2015.20.7431.

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This article aims at studying the relationships Mongolian herders who practice hunting entertain with a particular material object, that is a wolf’s ankle bone. I try to show through an ethnographic analysis of the cosmological status of the wolf and the hunting activity that the use of the wolf’s ankle bone by men accounts for an analogical perception of the human and non-human bodies, as well as objects.

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Opdahl Mathisen, Silje. "A record of ethnographic objects procured for the Crystal Palace exhibition in Sydenham." Nordisk Museologi 27, no. 3 (2020): 8–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/nm.7719.

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This article investigates the events surrounding the discovery of a double set of Sámi artefacts collected in Norway in the 1850s. While the collecting had received government funding and was initiated by a Norwegian scholar, the commission for it came from London. One set of artefacts was to be exhibited at Crystal Palace in Sydenham, a commercial venue reaching a tremendously large audience. The other set became part of the Ethnographic Museum in Oslo, a much smaller scientific institution established in 1857. By turning the spotlight on the historical context and agencies of these two sets

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Karina, Alírio. "Uncertain objects and ethnographic possibilities: thinking through the Smithsonian-Universal African Expedition." Safundi 21, no. 1 (2020): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17533171.2019.1681175.

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Neill, D. "Book Review: Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany." German History 22, no. 2 (2004): 280–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026635540402200224.

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Wohlwend, Karen E. "mediated discourse analysis: researching young children’s non-verbal interactions as social practice." Journal of Early Childhood Research 7, no. 3 (2009): 228–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1476718x09336950.

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Young children often use actions rather than talk as they interact with objects and each other to strategically shape the social, material, and cultural environment. New dynamic research designs and methods are needed to capture the collaborative learning and social positioning achieved through children’s non-verbal interactions. Mediated discourse analysis (MDA), a hybrid ethnographic/sociolinguistic approach rooted in cultural-historical activity and practice theories, analyzes mediated actions with objects. A three-year ethnographic study of children’s literacy play illustrates the five-sta

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Livne, Inbal. "Tracing the Biographies of Objects and Lives." Anthropos 114, no. 2 (2019): 495–514. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0257-9774-2019-2-495.

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This article focuses on the Tibetan collections of the National Museum of Scotland, which were formed by colonial agents from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century. The meanings and values given to Tibetan material culture in the British colonial context was often predicated on modes of categorisation, whereby objects could be denoted as “artistic,” “ethnographic,” “religious” or as symbols authenticating personal experience and family ties. This article examines how these categories, and the values given to them by collectors, can be used to unpack a complex series of relationships be

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