Sacramento State Anthropology

Men from Zuni Pueblo in Boston, Massachusetts, on a tour of the East with Frank Cushing #WeShallContinue Photographer: Benjamin West Kilburn Date: 1882 RP: Palace of the Governors Photo Archives

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Rencontre avec Richard B. Lee. Film 4. With the !Kung Bushmen 2/4. Monsieur Lee est professeur émérite au département d'anthropologie de l'Université de Toronto (Canada). Bon visionnement!

Coming out of the UCLA/Getty Graduate Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials is a short, yet very sweet opportunity for studen...ts and recent graduates from historically underrepresented groups - a fully funded, week-long summer workshop in Los Angeles designed to introduce participants to conservation and other collections work through tours, lab activities, lectures and presentations at the Getty Villa and regional museums. , . For more information, visit: http://conservation.ucla.edu/Mellon_diversity_opportunity Photo by the UCLA/Getty Graduate Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

If you missed SAR Former Weatherhead Fellow and Public Lecturer Dr. Robert L. Kelly interviewed by Lorene Mills from New Mexico PBS on his new book, The Fifth Beginning," you can catch it here: http://www.pbs.org/video/dr-robert-l-kelly-grbh5l/

It may look ordinary from the outside, but this Gothic church is decorated with the bones of 30,000 plague victims from the 14th century. http://on.natgeo.com/2A70Kyh

For the last month, the CSUS Anthro Dep't has hosted an ancestor alter inspired by the alters many Latinx families make for Dia de los Muertos. As anthropologists, we bear a responsibility to walk the line between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation ethically. Author Emily Prado says Disney/Pixar's "Coco," a film also inspired by Dia de los Muertos, walks that line responsibly as well. Have you seen the film? What are your thoughts? https://www.bitchmedia.org/a/coco-movie-review-disney-pixar

"Roots of Tradition" opens tomorrow and runs through December 8, 2017. Artwork and objects from everyday life in PNG and the wider Melanesian world are featured... in this exhibit showcasing the collection of Dr. Gil Herdt. (Please note that the Museum is closed on Veteran's Day and the Friday following Thanksgiving.) See more

"ROOTS OF TRADITION: SELECTIONS FROM THE GILBERT HERDT COLLECTION OF PACIFIC ART AND ETHNOLOGY" opens Wednesday, November 1 and runs through Friday, December 8,... 2017. Exhibit hours: Wednesdays 1 - 4 p.m. and Fridays 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. The exhibit features materials donated by Dr. Herdt, an alumnus of the Department of Anthropology. (Photo credit: Andrea Price '06.)

"The debate around Rohingya ethnicity lacks awareness of wider historiography"