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| 2011 Conference: 'Objects and Words: Writing On, Around, and About Things' |
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Thursday 14 April and Friday 15 April Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE. Further details to be added in due course.... |
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| 2010 Conference: 'Making Things' |
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Monday 12 April - Tuesday 13 April Museum of English Rural Life , University of Reading From technological interpretations through to gallery-based artistic interventions, museum ethnographers have long grappled with issues of creativity and with the physical techniques and social forces that underpin the making of our material worlds. However, in recent years other topics—collecting processes, disciplinary histories, and questions of ‘materiality’—have come to the fore, often at the expense of pragmatic and material-centred relationships between people and things. This conference seeks to re-engage with the practical elements of the profession. |
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| 2009 Conference: 'Amateur Passions / Professional Practice: ethnography collectors and collections' |
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2-3 April 2009 Bristol Over the last two centuries, museums and the academic discipline of anthropology have developed, bringing increasing professionalism into curatorship and fieldwork. But look at any museum collection, and it is clear that the ?amateur? has been and still is important in ethnographic collecting. What divides the amateur from the professional, and what brings them together? The focus of this year?s conference is on collectors and collections: what drives the one and creates the other? |
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| 2008 Conference: 'Museum Ethnography At Home' |
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10 & 11 April 2008 St John's College and Pitt Rivers Museum University of Oxford Museums of anthropology are supposed to be fascinated by 'the other', the material culture of exotic cultures and remote places, far from the site of the museums. However, the Pitt Rivers Museum is not the only UK ethnographic museum which actually has large ethnographic and archaeological collections from its own country. |
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