Week 1: Introduction to Museum Anthropology 1/28 Introductions, Overview, and Themes for Semester Required Readings:NONE Visit: Kilts, Kathleen Thompson. “Misunderstandings between Repatriation and Reparations.” National African American Reparations Commission (NAARC) (blog), May 13, 2022. https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/misunderstandings-between-repatriation-and-reparations/. Varela, Sandra Lopez. “Museums and the Restitution of Cultural Property.” Anthropology News, April 28, 2020. […]

First Class Questionaire Link to Assignments Folder in Google Drive. Contains: Reading Reflection Journaling Assignment HHS Expo Assignment Zine Assignment Conversation Paper on Exhibits Assignment Performing the Middle Ages at Brooklyn College Assignment

2 hours lecture and 2 hours supervised fieldwork; 4 credits This course is an applied introduction to museum anthropology, which includes work anthropologists do within and research about museums. The course includes an overview of past and present museological practices to learn to think critically about how cultures and histories […]

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Required Readings “42nd Street | How to Make Your Own Zine |.” Accessed January 31, 2025. https://www.42ndstreet.org.uk/support/read/how-to-make-your-own-zine. Abram, Ruth J. “Kitchen Conversations: Democracy in Action at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.” The Public Historian 29, no. 1 (2007): 59–76. https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2007.29.1.59. Akpang, Clement. “Beyond the Neo-Imperial Politicizing of Object Repatriation: […]