Chapter 9 Links and Further Reading

Materiality: Constructing Social Relationships and Meaning with Things

Blog Roll and Web Links

Reading anthro blogs is a great way to keep up with the latest developments and discoveries in the field, to get a sense of the most important debates and controversies and as to find out what anthropologists think about world events. There are literally hundreds of blogs maintained by professional anthropologists from all the subfields (a quite comprehensive list can be found at http://anthropologyreport.com/anthropology-blogs-2014/).

  1. Material World (http://www.materialworldblog.com/).

    Operated by the anthropology department at University College London, Material World is an interactive, online hub for contemporary debates, discussion, thinking, and research on material and visual culture.
  1. Archaeology and Material Culture (https://paulmullins.wordpress.com/).

    Paul Mullins is a historical archaeologist who studies consumer culture in the last half-millennium, based at Indiana University–Purdue University. The blog examines research on the intersection of material consumption and the color line; the emergence of consumer society in northern Europe; and the relationship between popular culture and materiality in the contemporary world.
  1. Middle Savagery (https://middlesavagery.wordpress.com/).

    Collen Morgan is an archaeologist and postdoctoral fellow at the University of York. This blog explores intersections of archaeology, art, and digital media.
  1. Museum Anthropology (http://museumanthropology.blogspot.com/).

    The online Supplement to Museum Anthropology, the Journal of the Council for Museum Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. The blog has regular news items, including stories about repatriation.

Other Web Resources

Oxford Bibliographies has entries on art/aesthetics, cultural resource management, museum anthropology, and public archaeology.

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0031.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0104.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0053.xml

http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0021.xml

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