Week 1 ORIENTATION TO THE FIELD SITE - Anthropology ...

2011 SIMA Syllabus
Saturday check-in and welcome
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Week 1 ORIENTATION TO THE FIELD SITE
Lesson #1, NMNH Orientation and Walkabout
Lesson #2, Program Overview (Greene and Parezo)
Gosden, Chris and Frances Larson
2007 What is a Museum? In Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers
Museum 1884-1945. Pp. 3-13. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Lawson, Barbara
1994 Artifact Collecting and Anthropology. In Collected Curios: Missionary Tales from the South Seas.
Fontanus Monograph Series III. Pp. 1-19. Montreal: McGill University Libraries.
Thomas, Nicholas
2010 The Museum as Method. Museum Anthropology 33(1): 6-10.
Thompson, Raymond H. and Nancy J. Parezo
1989 A Historical Survey of Material Culture Studies in Anthropology. In Perspectives on
Anthropological Collections from the American Southwest. Department of Anthropology,
Arizona State University (contributor); Heard Museum of Anthropology and Primitive Art
(contributor); Anne Lane Hedlund and Margaret W. Conkey, eds. Pp: 33-65. Tempe: Arizona
State University.
Greene, Candace S.
1992 Documentation, Attribution and the Ideal Type. In Art and Artifacts: Essays in Material Culture
and Museum Studies, In Honor of Jane Powell Dwyer, Harold David Juli, ed. Research Papers in
Anthropology Number 5. Pp. 9-18. Providence: Brown University.
Sturtevant, William
1966 Ethnological Collections and Curatorial Records. Museum News, 44(7): 16-19.
Glassie, Henry
1999 Material Culture. In Material Culture. Pp. 41-86. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana
University Press.
Lesson #3a, Methods from My Research (Greene)
Greene, Candace S.
1996 Structure and Meaning in Cheyenne Ledger Art. In Plains Indian Drawings 1865-1935: Pages
from a Visual History. Janet Berlo, ed. Pp. 26-33. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in Association
with The American Federation of Arts and the Drawing Center.

Greene, Candace S.
2009 One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record. University of Nebraska Press. (selections)
Lesson #3b, Methods from My Research (Parezo)
Parezo, Nancy
1982 Navajo Sandpaintings: The Importance of Sex Roles in Craft Production. The American Indian
Quarterly 66(1-2): 125-148.
2001 The “Shy” Cocopa Go to the Fair IN Selling the Indian: Commercializing and Appropriating
American Indian Cultures, edited by Carter Jones Meyer and Diana Royer, pp.3-43. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, (with John W. Troutman).
Parezo, Nancy J., Hays, Kelley A., and Barbara F. Slivac
1987 The Mind's Road. Southwest Indian Women's Art. In The Desert Is No Lady: Southwestern
Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art. Vera H. Norwood and Janice Monk, eds. Pp.146-
173. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Lesson #4, EMu Database Orientation
Lesson #5, Collections Resources: Artifacts (Greene)
Guide to Collections Records, Ethnology and Archaeology Collections. Smithsonian Institution,
National Museum of Natural History, Department of Anthropology.
Jones, Reba
1998 Handling. In The New Museum Registration Methods. 4 th edition. Rebecca A. Buck and Jean
AllmanGilmore, eds. Pp. 45-48. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums.
Lesson #6, SIRIS Database Orientation
Lesson #7, Collections Resources: Archives (Parezo)
Brettell, Caroline B.
1998 Fieldwork in the Archives: Methods and Sources in Historical Anthropology. In Handbook of
Methods in Cultural Anthropology. H. Russell Bernard, ed. Pp. 513-45. Walnut Creek, CA:
AltaMira Press.
Parezo, Nancy
1996 The Formation of Anthropological Archival Records. In Learning from Things: Method and
Theory of Material Culture Studies. W. David Kingery, ed. Pp.145-172. Washington, DC:
Smithsonian Institution Press.
Finnegan, Ruth
1996 Using Documents. In Data Collection and Analysis. R Sapsford and V Jupp, eds. Pp. 138-151.
London: Sage Publications.
Lutkehaus, Nancy
1990 Refractions of Reality: On the Use of Other Ethnographers’ Fieldnotes. In Fieldnotes: The
Makings of Anthropology. Roger Sanjek, ed. Pp.303-323. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
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Lesson #8, Photographing Collections (NMNH Photographer Don Hurlbert)
Lesson #9, Collections Notes (Greene and Parezo)
Sanjek, Roger
1990 A Vocabulary for Fieldnotes. In Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Roger Sanjek, ed.
Pp.92-121. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Lesson #10, Methods from My Research (Isaac)
Deetz, James
1977 In Small Things Forgotten: The Archaeology of Early American Life. Pp. 64-90. New York:
Doubleday.
Isaac, Gwyneira
2011 Whose Idea Was This? Current Anthropology 52(2): 211-233.
2005 Re-Observation and the Recognition of Change: The Photographs of Matilda Coxe Stevenson
(1879-1915). Journal of the Southwest 47(3): 411-455.
Lesson #11, Methods from My Research (Bell)
Bell, Joshua A.
2009 Documenting discontent: Struggles for recognition in the Purari Delta of Papua New Guinea. The
Australian Journal of Anthropology 20(1): 28-47.
2006 Losing the Forest But Not the Stories in the Trees: Contemporary Understandings of the
Government Anthropologist F.E. Williams. 1922 Photographs of the Purari Delta, Papua New
Guinea. Journal of Pacific History 41(2): 191-206.
Lesson #12, Methods from My Research (Glass)
Readings:
Glass, Aaron
2009 A Cannibal in the Archive: Performance, Materiality, and (In)Visibility in Unpublished Edward
Curtis Photographs of the Kwakwaka’wakw Hamat’sa. Visual Anthropology Review 25(2):128-
149.
2006 From Cultural Salvage to Brokerage: The Mythologization of Mungo Martin and the Emergence
of Northwest Coast Art. Museum Anthropology 29(1): 20-43.
2009 Frozen Poses: Hamat’sa Dioramas, Recursive Representation, and the Making of a
Kwakwaka’wakh Icon. In Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame.
Christopher A. Morton and Elizabeth Edwards, eds. Pp. 89-116. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing.
2004 Intention of Tradition: Contemporary Contexts and Contests of the Hamat’sa Dance. In Coming
to Shore: Northwest Coast Ethnology, Traditions, and Visions. Marie Mauzé, Michael E. Harkin,
and Sergei Kan, eds. Pp. 279-303. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press.
Lesson #13, Weekly Data Collection Plans (Greene)
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Lesson #14, Smithsonian Folklife Festival (Godby Ingalsbe)
Glassie, Henry
1997 Shankharibazar. In Art and Life in Bangladesh. Pp. 307-366. Bloomington: Indiana University
Press.
Kurin, Richard.
1989 Why We Do the Festival. In Festival of American Folklife Program. Washington, D.C.:
Smithsonian Institution and National Park Service.
Lesson #14 Follow-up
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Week 2 VISUAL COMPETENCY: LEARNING TO LOOK
Lesson #15, Meet & Greet SI Resource People
Lesson #16, Close Looking: Single Objects (Greene)
Banks, Marcus
2001 Reading Pictures. In Visual Methods in Social Research. Pp. 1-12. Los Angeles and London: Sage
Publications.
Caple, Chris
2006 Investigating Objects: Theories and Approaches. In Objects: Reluctant Witnesses to the Past. Pp.
1-43. London and New York: Routledge.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
1890 The Science of Deduction. In The Sign of the Four. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2097/2097h/2097-h.htm#chap01
.
Prown , Jules David
1982 Mind in Matter: An Introduction to Material Culture Theory and Method. Winterthur Portfolio
17(1):1-19.
Lesson #17, Looking at Assemblages: African Baskets (Arnoldi)
Arth, Kim
2005 Keeping Traditions: Change, Innovation and Continuity in Kenyan Kyondo Baskets (Master’s
Thesis)
Lesson #18, Looking at Photographs and Film as Objects (Bell)
Edwards, E. and J. Hart
2004 Introduction: Photographs as Objects. In Photographs Objects Histories: On the Materiality of
Images. E. Edwards and J.Hart, eds. Pp. 1-16. London: Routledge.
Morton, Christopher and Elizabeth Edwards

2009 Introduction. In Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame. Christopher
Morton and Elizabeth Edwards, eds. Pp.1-24. Burlington: Ashgate Publishing Company.
Pinney, Christopher
1992 The Parallel Histories of Anthropology and Photography. In Anthropology and Photography
1860-1920. Elizabeth Edwards, ed. Pp 74-95. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Lesson #19, Looking Small, Looking Large: Totem Poles (Glass)
Reading:
Glass, Aaron and Aldona Jonaitis
(In press) A Miniature History of Model Totem Poles. In Carvings and Commerce: Model Totem
Poles 1880-2010. Medel Art Gallery and University of Washington Press.
Hawker, Ronald
2003 Northwest Coast Art as National Heritage: Two Federal Projects of the Late 1920s. In Tales of
Ghosts: First Nations Art in British Columbia, 1922-1961. Pp. 46-65. Vancouver: UBC Press.
Jonaitis, Aldona and Aaron Glass
2010 Chapter 3. In The Totem Pole: An Intercultural History. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Moore, Emily
2010 Propatriation: Possibilities for Art after NAGPRA. Museum Anthropology 33(2):125-136.
Nuytten, Phil
1982 Part 2: Ellen Neel. In The Totem Carvers. Pp. 43-74. Vancouver: Panorama Publications Ltd.
Lesson #20, Distinguished Lectures in Museum Anthropology – Aaron Glass
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Week 3 HOW COLLECTIONS ARE SHAPED: DATA CRITIQUE
Lesson #21, Methods from My Research (Morphy)
Morphy, Howard
1980 What Circles Look Like. Canberra Anthropology 3(1):17-36.
Lesson #22, Who Shapes Collections: James Mooney (Parezo)
Greene, Candace S.
2001 Visions on Shields and Tipis: Kiowa Heraldry. In Silver Horn: Master Illustrator of the Kiowas. Pp.
187-207. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Nason, James D.
1987 The Determination of Significance: Curatorial Research and Private Collections. In Material
Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to Material Culture. Barrie Reynolds and Margaret A.
Stott, eds. Pp.31-67. Lanham: University Press of America.

Welsch, Robert L.
2000 One Time, One Place: Three Collections-Colonial Processes and the Shaping of Some Museum
Collections from German New Guinea. In Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors,
Agents and Agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s. Michael O’Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch, eds. Pp.
155-175. New York: Berghahn Books.
Lesson #23, Indigenous Meaning: Navajo Case Study (Parezo)
M’Closkey, Kathy
2004 Towards an Understanding of Navajo Aesthetics.
Accessed 10 June 2011.
Parezo, Nancy
2007 To Live Within Dinétah: Navajo Sandpainters and Their Quest for Place. In Place in Native
American History, Literature and Culture. Papers of the 2006 American Indian Workshop. Joy
Porter, ed. Alexis Kirschbaum, series ed. Pp. 155-176. Witney, Oxfordshire, England: Peter Lang,
Ltd.
Lesson #24, Inscripted Meanings: Objects, Archives, Exhibits (Isaac)
Dening, Greg
1996 Making a Present out of the Past: History’s Anthropology. In Performances. Pp. 31 – 63.
University of Chicago Press.
Lesson #25, Anthropology of Art (Morphy)
Gell, Alfred
1998 The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art. In Art and Agency: An
Anthropological Theory. Pp. 1 – 11. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Morphy, Howard
2010 Art as Action, Art as Evidence. In Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies. Dan Hicks and
Mary C Baudry, eds. Pp. 265-329. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2009 Art as a Mode of Action: Some Problems with Gell’s Art and Agency. Journal of Material Culture
14(1):5-27.
Lesson #26, Assessing Your Data (Parezo)
Atkinson, Paul and Sara Delamont
2008 Analytical Perspectives. In Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. 3 rd edition. Norman
K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds. Pp.285-311. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Bernard, H. Russell
1994 Coding and Codebooks for Quantitative Data. In Research Methods in Anthropology. 2 nd edition.
H. Russell Bernard, ed. Pp. 393-402. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
--- Analysis of Qualitative Data. In Research Methods in Anthropology. 2 nd edition. H. Russell
Bernard, ed. Pp. 360-392. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications
Harper, Douglas
2008 What’s New Visually. In Collecting and Interpreting Qualitative Materials. 3 rd edition. Norman K.
Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, eds. Pp.185-204. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
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Lesson #27, Understanding Bias (Parezo)
Bernard, H. Russell
1994 Sampling. In Research Methods in Anthropology. 2 nd edition. H. Russell Bernard, ed. Pp. 71-101.
Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Fogelson, Raymond D.
1989 The Ethnohistory of Events and Non-Events. Ethnohistory 36(2): 133-147.
Sanjek, Roger
1990 On Ethnographic Validity. In Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Roger Sanjek, ed. Pp.385-
418. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Lesson #28, Nature of Museum Records; Finding More Data (Greene)
Wilcox, U. Vincent
1980 Collections Management with the Computer. Curator 23(1): 43-54.
Lesson #29, Research Funding:
Guest Speaker Deborah Winslow, NSF Cultural Anthropology Program Officer
Johnson, Jeffrey C.
1998 Research Design and Research Strategies. In Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology.
H.Russell Bernard, ed. Pp. 131-171. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press.
Parezo, Nancy
1998 Wenner-Gren Foundation grant proposal
Lesson #30, Distinguished Lectures in Museum Anthropology – Howard Morphy
Lesson #31, Status Reports from Students
Lesson #33, From Museum to Field: Faculty Roundtable on Working with Source Communities
Bell, Joshua A.
2003 Looking to See: Reflections on Visual Repatriation in the Purari Delta, Gulf Province, Papua New
Guinea. In Museums and Source Communities: A Routledge Reader. Laura Peers and Alison K.
Brown, eds. Pp. 111-122. London and New York: Routledge.
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Week 4 NEXT STEPS: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Lesson #32, Applying Theory (Parezo)
Castile, George Pierre
1992 Indian Sign: Hegemony and Symbolism in Federal Indian Policy. In State and Reservation: New
Perspectives on Federal Indian Policy. George Pierre Castile and Robert L. Bee, eds. Pp. 165-186.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Anderson, Benedict
1991 Census, Map, Museum. In Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of
Nationalism. 2 nd edition. London and New York: Verso.

McMullen, Ann
2008 The Currency of Consultation and Collaboration. Museum Anthropology Review 2(2): 54-87.
Morphy, Howard
Unpublished Open Access Versus the Culture of Protocols.
Lesson #34, Final Symposium with Student Presentations
Lesson #35, SIMA Course Evaluation
RUNNING THROUGHOUT PROGRAM
Individual advising on research project
Individual data collection, based on weekly data collection plans
Individual time in collections with faculty
Informal small group gatherings for discussion on various topics
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