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Objects of culture: Ethnology and ethnographic museums in Imperial Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

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Penny, H. Glenn. Objects of culture: Ethnology and ethnographic museums in Imperial Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

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Regional variation in the material culture of hunter gatherers: Social and ecological approaches to ethnographic objects from Queensland, Australia. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2003.

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Sweden), Etnografiska museet (Stockholm, ed. Whose objects?: Art treasures from the kingdom of Benin in the collection of the Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm. Stockholm: Etnografiska museet, 2010.

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Muzeĭ etnohrafiï ta khudoz︠h︡nʹoho promyslu Instytutu narodoznavstva NAN Ukraïny and Schlossbergmuseum Chemnitz, eds. Schätze des jüdischen Galizien: Begleitheft zur Ausstellung des Museums für Ethnographie und Kunstgewerbe, Lviv/Ukraine. Chemnitz: Schlossbergmuseum Chemnitz, 2002.

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Derlon, Brigitte. De mémoire et d'oubli: Anthropologie des objets malanggan de Nouvelle-Irlande. Paris: CNRS éditions, 1997.

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Duda, Eugeniusz. Skarby dziedzictwa galicyjskich Żydów: Judaica z Muzeum Etnografii i Przemysłu Artystycznego we Lwowie = Treasures of the Galician Jewish heritage : Jewish collection from the Museum of Ethnography and Artistic Crafts in Lvov. Kraków: Wydawn."DUO", 1993.

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Prampolini, Gaetano, and Annamaria Pinazzi, eds. The Shade of the Saguaro / La sombra del saguaro. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-393-9.

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This volume springs from that fruitful project of scientific cooperation between the humanities departments of Università di Firenze and University of Arizona which was the Forum for the Study of the Literary Cultures of the Southwest (2000-2007). Tri-cultural, at least (Native, Hispanic and Anglo-American), and multi-lingual, today’s Southwest presents a complex coexistence of different cultures, the equal of which would be hard to find elsewhere in the United States. Of this virtually inexhaustible object of study, the essays here collected tackle an ample range of themes. While the majority of them are concerned with the literatures of the Southwest, still a good third falls into the fields of history, art history, ethnography, sociology or cultural studies. They are partitioned in four sections, the first three reflecting the chronology of the stratification of the three major cultures and the fourth highlighting one of the most sensitive topics in and about contemporary Southwest – the borderlands/la frontera.
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Bo wu guan min zu zhi: Zhongguo xi nan di qu de wu xiang xu shi yu zu qun li shi = Museum Ethnography : Object Narrative and Ethnic History on the Southwestern Frontiers of China. Beijing Shi: Min zu chu ban she, 2014.

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Tsuneyuki, Morita, Pearson C, and International Taniguchi Symposium (9th : 1985 : Osaka and Otsu, Japan), eds. The Museum conservation of ethnographic objects. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1988.

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1938-, Morita Tsuneyuki, Pearson C, and Kokuritsu Minzokugaku Hakubutsukan, eds. The Museum conservation of ethnographic objects. Osaka, Japan: National Museum of Ethnology, 1988.

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Penny, H. Glenn. Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

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Penny, H. Glenn. Objects of Culture: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

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Hahn, Tomie, and J. Scott Jordan. Sensible Objects. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190210465.003.0010.

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This chapter integrates ethnographic techniques, cognitive science, and enactive theory to examine the phenomenology dynamics that emerge during spontaneous interaction in a newly developed practice called banding. Specifically, participants are connected to each other via large rubber bands. An enactivist analysis of participants’ journals reveals participants undergo intense intercorporeal experiences with properties that are: disorienting; multiscale; conjure intercorporeal surprise and discovery; undergo patterns of change, in both groups and individuals; give rise to intercorporeal trust; and entail intercorporeal shifts in identity. The paper analyses how these properties might reflect the intercorporeal nature of everyday experiences.
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F, Hansen Eric, International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. United Kingdom Group., and Getty Conservation Institute, eds. Matte paint: Its history and technology, analysis, properties and conservation treatment : with special emphasis on ethnographic objects. [Marina del Rey, Calif.]: Getty Conservation Institute in association with the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), London, 1993.

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Matte paint: Its history and technology, analysis, properties and conservation treatment : with a special emphasis on ethnographic objects. Marina del Rey, Calif: Getty Conservation Institute in association with the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (IIC), London, 1993.

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Ba-hazarah la-ayarah: An-ski veha-mishlahat ha-etnografit ha-Yehudit, 1912-1914 : Me-osfe ha-muzeon ha-mamlakhti le-etnografyah be- Sankt Petersburg (Katalog). Muzeon Yisrael, 1994.

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Rivka, Gonen, and Muzeʾon Yiśraʾel (Jerusalem), eds. Ba-ḥazarah la-ʻayarah: An-sḳi ṿeha-mishlaḥat ha-etnografit ha-Yehudit, 1912-1914 : me-osfe ha-muzeʾon ha-mamlakhti le-etnografyah be- Sanḳṭ Peṭersburg. Yerushalayim: Muzeʾon Yiśraʾel, 1994.

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1942-, Mock Shirley Boteler, ed. The sowing and the dawning: Termination, dedication, and transformation in the archaeological and ethnographic record of Mesoamerica. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

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The Sowing and the Dawning: Termination, Dedication, and Transformation in the Archaeological and Ethnographic Record of Mesoamerica. University of New Mexico Press, 1998.

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Tracing: Jewish collections from the state ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg; An-sky. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, 1992.

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Tracing: Jewish collections from the state ethnographic museum in St. Petersburg; An-sky. Waanders Uitgevers, 1992.

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Berthod, Olivier, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Jörg Sydow. Inter-organizational ethnography. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796978.003.0011.

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Olivier Berthod, Michael Grothe-Hammer, and Jörg Sydow report an unconventional research design using multi-site ethnography. The aim is to study inter-organizational relationships, which are not well understood, and are not addressed by single-site ethnographic methods. Ethnography is a popular and established methodology in organization studies. However, organizing is a process that crosses boundaries, and the traditional approach that involves immersing the ethnographer in one defined social or organizational setting means that inter-organizational phenomena are overlooked. The challenge is to conduct fieldwork at multiple sites, across which inter-organizational relations may be conducted with varying degrees of formality, and be more or less visible. Inter-organizational ethnography thus builds on the combination of several techniques. Four techniques are explored: following boundary objects, capturing network enactments, using several investigators, and repeat interviews. The methodology is illustrated with a study of the network of eighty organizations that deal with large-scale crises and emergencies in Düsseldorf.
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(Editor), Eric F. Hansen, Sue Walston (Editor), and Mitchell Hearns Bishop (Editor), eds. Matte Paint: Its History and Technology, Analysis, Properties, and Conservation Treatment with Special Emphasis on Ethnographic Objects (Getty Trust Publications: Getty Conservation Institute). Getty Trust Publications: Getty Conservation Institute, 1994.

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Los Zares y los pueblos: Museu d'Etnologia, Centre Cultural La Beneficiència, Diputació de València, del 21 de mayo al 30 de junio de 1998. Valencia: Museu d'Etnologia, 1998.

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Objects and Objections of Ethnography. Fordham University Press, 2011.

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Objects and Objections of Ethnography. Fordham University Press, 2011.

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Tsars et peuples: Collections impériales : 29 juin -13 octobre 1996, Abbaye de Daoulas. [Daoulas, France]: Centre Culturel Abbaye de Daoulas, 1996.

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Ballestero, Andrea, and Brit Ross Winthereik, eds. Experimenting with Ethnography. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478013211.

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Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analytic devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope, Experimenting with Ethnography is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers. Contributors. Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Andrea Ballestero, Ivan da Costa Marques, Steffen Dalsgaard, Endre Dányi, Marisol de la Cadena, Marianne de Laet, Carolina Domínguez Guzmán, Rachel Douglas-Jones, Clément Dréano, Joseph Dumit, Melanie Ford Lemus, Elaine Gan, Oliver Human, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Graham M. Jones, Trine Mygind Korsby, Justine Laurent, James Maguire, George E. Marcus, Annemarie Mol, Sarah Pink, Els Roding, Markus Rudolfi, Ulrike Scholtes, Anthony Stavrianakis, Lucy Suchman, Katie Ulrich, Helen Verran, Else Vogel, Antonia Walford, Karen Waltorp, Laura Watts, Brit Ross Winthereik
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Wheeler, William. Fish as Property on the Small Aral Sea, Kazakhstan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813415.003.0009.

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This chapter looks at a postsocialist fishery in Kazakhstan to explore the relationship between property rules designed to manage natural resources, and practices of resource exploitation. The Aral Sea is famous for its desiccation over the second half of the twentieth century, which stemmed from Soviet irrigation projects; in 2006 a World Bank/Republic of Kazakhstan project restored a small part of the sea, and fish catches have recently recovered somewhat. In this chapter, based on ethnographic and archival research, I explore the disjuncture between formal rules and practice to address debates about the management of common-pool resources. Within the nomadic economy, in contrast to livestock, fish were not property objects; over the colonial, Soviet and post-Soviet periods, they became objects of economic value in different ways, mediating different sorts of social relations. Turning to the contemporary property regime, I suggest that formal rules matter, but in unintended ways.
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Wastiau, Boris. The Legacy of Collecting. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.25.

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This chapter portrays the historical actors who established the unique ethnographic collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa and the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History (Belgium). The objects they collected, like the majority of those in the museum, arrived in Belgium during the colonial period. The government of the Congo Free State, then the Ministry of Colonies and several scientific institutes issued directives encouraging their agents to collect artifacts, as well as photographic images of “indigenous types” and specimens of physical anthropology. This chapter examines the current amnesia about human remains of colonial provenance and the challenges surrounding the exhibition of religious objects now presented as great artworks of universal interest by metropolitan museums. Addressing the ethics of curatorial practice, the chapter proposes that curators of ethnological collections of colonial provenance, as public historians, strive to make collecting history accessible to larger audiences in their exhibitions.
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Tenhunen, Sirpa. A Village Goes Mobile. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190630270.001.0001.

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This book examines how mobile telephony contributes to social change in rural India (West Bengal, Bankura district) on the basis of long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a village before and after the introduction of mobile phones. The book investigates how mobile telephones emerged as multidimensional objects that not only enable telephone conversations, but also facilitate status aspirations, internet access, and entertainment practices. It explores how this multifaceted use of mobile phones has influenced economic, political, and social relationships, including gender relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development. The book examines social institutions as culturally constructed spheres tied to translocal processes that, nevertheless, have local meanings. The author delves into social and cultural changes to examine agency and power relationships: Who benefits from mobile telephony and how? Can people use mobile phones to further their aims to change their lives, or does phone use merely amplify existing social patterns and power relationships? Can mobile telephony induce development? Using a holistic ethnographic approach, the book develops a framework to understand how new media mediates social processes within interrelated social spheres and local hierarchies. It delves into mobile phone use as a multidimensional process with diverse impacts by exploring how media-saturated forms of interaction relate to preexisting contexts.
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Fox, Richard. More Than Words. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501725340.001.0001.

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Grounded in extensive ethnographic and archival research on the Indonesian island of Bali, More Than Words challenges conventional understandings of textuality and writing as they pertain to the religious traditions of Southeast Asia. Through a nuanced study of Balinese script as employed in rites of healing, sorcery and self-defence, this book explores the aims and desires embodied in the production and use of palm-leaf manuscripts, amulets and other inscribed objects. Balinese often attribute both life and independent volition to manuscripts and copperplate inscriptions, presenting them with elaborate offerings. Commonly addressed with personal honorifics, these script-bearing objects may become partners with humans and other sentient beings in relations of exchange and mutual obligation. The question is how such practices of ‘the living letter’ may be related to more recently emergent conceptions of writing—which take Balinese letters to be a symbol of cultural heritage, and a neutral medium for the transmission of textual meaning. One of the book’s central aims is to theorize the coexistence of these seemingly contradictory sensibilities, with an eye to its wider significance for the history and practice of religion in Southeast Asia and beyond.
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Art, ethnography and the life of objects: Paris, c.1925-35. Manchester University Press, 2012.

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Hermkens, Anna-Karina. Sinuous Objects: Revaluing Women’s Wealth in the Contemporary Pacific. ANU Press, 2017.

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Carlson, Roy L. Figurines and Figural Art of the Northwest Coast. Edited by Timothy Insoll. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.017.

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Similarities between the earliest Northwest Coast art and ethnographic art are traced regionally from 2000 bc into the late nineteenth century. The earliest known figural art is in the Fraser River–Gulf Islands region and consists of human and animal images with ribs and backbones, joint marks, and protruding tongues, and masks. These motifs are present on ritual spoons used for feeding the dead, probably as part of an early form of the memorial potlatch, and are related to beliefs in human–animal transformation, regeneration from bone, spirit power, and shamanism. These same motifs are found later in adjacent regions as parts of ritual objects, tools, and utensils. Art declined in the late pre-contact period in the region where it is known earliest, but fluoresced later on the lower Columbia River, particularly on the northern Northwest Coast where the late classic interlocked style developed and has continued to evolve today.
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Bickford, Tyler. Schooling New Media. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190654146.001.0001.

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Schooling New Media is an ethnography of children’s music and media consumption practices at a small elementary and middle school in Vermont. It examines how transformations in music technologies influence the way children, their peers, and adults relate to one another in school. Focusing especially on digital music devices—MP3 players—it reveals the key role of intimate, face-to-face relationships in structuring children’s uses of music technologies. It explores how headphones mediate face-to-face peer relationships, as children share earbuds and listen to music with friends while participating in their peer groups’ dense overlap of talk, touch, and gesture. It argues that kids treat MP3 players less like “technology” and more like “toys,” domesticating them within traditional childhood material cultures already characterized by playful physical interaction and portable objects such as toys, trading cards, and dolls that can be shared, manipulated, and held close. Kids use digital music devices to expand their repertoires of communicative practices—like passing notes or whispering—that allow them to maintain intimate connections with friends beyond the reach of adults. Kids position the connections afforded by digital music listening as a direct challenge to the overarching language and literacy goals of classroom education. Schooling New Media is unique in its intensive ethnographic attention to everyday sites of musical consumption and performance. And it is uniquely interdisciplinary, bringing together approaches from music education, ethnomusicology, technology studies, literacy studies, and linguistic anthropology to make integrative arguments about the relationship between consumer technologies, childhood identities, and educational institutions.
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Geismar, Haidy. Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age. UCL Press, 2018.

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Andrade, Xavier. The vulgarity of democracy. Political, pornography, masculinity and politics in Ecuador. Universidad de los Andes, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.30778/2019.55.

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The Vulgarity of Democracy explores key aesthetics and affective aspects of democracy via a visual ethnographic exploration of political pornography and the public uses of machismo to construct agendas for popular redemption in Guayaquil, Ecuador, during the 1980s. This period was the beginning of a highly conflictive social process as a result of the imposition of neoliberal policies. Its focus is on the life and work of Pancho Jaime (1946-1989), the most controversial and widely known rock promoter and independent journalist. Between 1984 and his assassination in 1989, Jaime’s underground publications used in-depth investigation as well as gossip, pornographic cartoons, and obscene language to comment on democracy and the corruption of political elites. Jaime’s strategy was to denounce the conduct of powerful figures in public office, and caricaturize their deformed bodies as indexes of their supposedly “deviant” sexuality. Following contemporary and comparative discussions on the political economy of images, and the materiality of image-objects, X. Andrade analyzes the production, circulation, and consumption of Pancho Jaime’s political magazines, audience responses to grotesque visual and aggressive textual discourses, and the effects of revealing public secrets about popular understandings of politics.
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Yaneva, Albena. Crafting History. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751820.001.0001.

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What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? This book provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex enterprise that starts and ends much beyond the act of building or the life of a creator. In this book we learn how objects are processed and catalogued, how a classification scheme is produced, how models and drawings are preserved, and how born-digital material battles time and technology obsolescence. We follow the work of conservators, librarians, cataloguers, digital archivists, museum technicians, curators, and architects, and we capture archiving in its mundane and practical course. Based on ethnographic observation at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and interviews with a range of practitioners, including Álvaro Siza and Peter Eisenman, the book traces archiving through the daily work and care of all its participants, scrutinizing their variable ontology, scale, and politics. It addresses the strategies practicing architects employ to envisage an archive-based future and tells a story about how architectural collections are crafted so as to form the epistemological basis of architectural history.
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Center, Ames Research, ed. An ethnographic object-oriented analysis of explorer presence in a volcanic terrain environment: Claims and evidence. Moffett Field, Calif: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1994.

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An ethnographic object-oriented analysis of explorer presence in a volcanic terrain environment: Claims and evidence. Moffett Field, Calif: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1994.

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An ethnographic object-oriented analysis of explorer presence in a volcanic terrain environment: Claims and evidence. Moffett Field, Calif: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1994.

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Center, Ames Research, ed. An ethnographic object-oriented analysis of explorer presence in a volcanic terrain environment: Claims and evidence. Moffett Field, Calif: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1994.

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Kelly, Julia. Art, Ethnography and the Life of Objects: Paris, c. 1925-35 (Critical Perspectives in Art History). Manchester University Press, 2007.

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Ntarangwi, Mwenda. Intersections, Overlaps, and Collaborations. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040061.003.0001.

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This chapter summarizes in brief an ethnography which demonstrates a close collaboration between the subject and researcher; the role one hip hop artist plays in a counterdiscourse to Christianity's conservative posture in Kenya; a methodological approach that blurs any assumed distance between object and subject; and the intersections, overlaps, and collaborations that have taken place in the life and work of Julius Owino—more famously known as Juliani—as an artist and the author's own as the ethnographer. This chapter provides the groundwork for later discussion by briefly examining the life and career of Juliani as well as his own relationship with the author, and by providing overviews of the major themes underpinning this volume as a whole—hip hop, youth culture, and Christianity.
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Browner, Tara, and Thomas L. Riis, eds. Rethinking American Music. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042324.001.0001.

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Only since the 1970s have the variety of American musical styles and sounds have been allowed to stand on their own two feet in the academic world. Recent efforts to place American music-making within new or heretofore neglected contexts are diverse and inevitably shift our consciousness about music’s meaning and impact in culture. This volume contains a series of commentaries or glosses, chapters about American music broadly understood that seek especially to explore four critical factors beyond the the familiar categories defined by repertory or biography alone: the impact of performance; the role of patronage in the creation of musical objects and events; personal identity; and how larger cultural/ethnographic contexts (community values, ethnic markers, and social relations) determine certain musical results. A related concern in many of the chapters is the way music is disseminated within listening communities—how it was made “popular”—and how it continues to exert a lasting influence across the rest of the globe. The topics to be found here are wide ranging and include many genres and perspectives (hymnody, concert music, jazz, country music, hip-hop, Tin Pan Alley, and Broadway song and dance, among other types), but each chapter is focused on specific performers, patrons, works, conditions, or institutions within its cultural context.
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Maldonado-Estrada, Alyssa. Lifeblood of the Parish. NYU Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479872244.001.0001.

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Each year the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, celebrates its annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. The crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, a devotional spectacle of strength and struggle in which men lift a four-ton, seventy-foot tower through the streets. This ethnographic study delves into this masculine world of devotion and the religious lives of lay Catholic men. It explores contemporary men’s devotion to the saints and the Catholic parish as an enduring venue for the pursuit of manhood and masculinity amid gentrification and neighborhood change in New York City. It explores the way laymen imagine themselves and their labor as high stakes, the very work of keeping their parish alive. In this Brooklyn church men, money, and devotion are intertwined. In the backstage spaces of the parish men enact their devotion through craft, manual labor, and fundraising. A rich exploration of embodiment and material religion, this book examines how men come to be part of religious community through material culture: costumes, clothing, objects, and tattoos. It argues that devotion is as much about skills, the body, and relationships between men as it is about belief.
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Cardoso, Leonardo. Sound-Politics in São Paulo. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190660093.001.0001.

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This book is an ethnographic study of controversial sounds and noise control debates in Latin America’s most populous city. It discusses the politics of collective living by following several threads linking sound-making practices to governance issues. Rather than discussing sound within a self-enclosed “cultural” field, I examine it as a point of entry for analyzing the state. At the same time, rather than portraying the state as a self-enclosed “apparatus” with seemingly inexhaustible homogeneous power, I describe it as a collection of unstable (and often contradictory) sectors, personnel, strategies, discourses, documents, and agencies. My goal is to approach sound as an analytical category that allows us to access citizenship issues. As I show, environmental noise in São Paulo has been entangled in a wide range of debates, including public health, religious intolerance, crime control, urban planning, cultural rights, and economic growth. The book’s guiding question can be summarized as follows: how do sounds enter and leave the sphere of state control? I answer this question by examining a multifaceted process I define as “sound-politics.” The term refers to sounds as objects that are susceptible to state intervention through specific regulatory, disciplinary, and punishment mechanisms. Both “sound” and “politics” in “sound-politics” are nouns, with the hyphen serving as a bridge that expresses the instability that each concept inserts into the other.
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Śarah, Harʾel-Ḥoshen, Galai Haya, and Bet ha-tefutsot ʻal shem Naḥum Goldman., eds. Treasures of Jewish Galicia: Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine. Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1996.

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