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Alter/Orders Workshop

March 5-6, 1999
Humanities Research Institute, University of California, Irvine

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Sixteenth-Century Mexican Encounter
The Social Life of Things
Otherness and Things, Time and Distance
Other Orders/Sensibilities
Supplement



The Sixteenth-Century Mexican Encounter

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Bernardino de Sahagún, The Florentine Codex: General History of Things of New Spain, vol. 8: Kings and Lords, trans. Arthur O Anderson and Charles E. Dibble, Monographs of the School of American Research, Number 14, Part IX (Santa Fe: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1979), 29-30, 45.

Hernán Cortéz, Letter from Mexico, trans. A. R. Padgen (New York: Grossman, 1971), 100-101, 109-111.

J. Jorge Klor de Alva, "Sahagún and the Birth of Modern Ethnography: Representing, Confessing, and Inscribing the Native Other," in The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-Century Mexico, ed. J. Jorge Klor de Alva, H.B. Nicholson, and Eloise Quiñones Keber, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, "Studies on Culture and Society," vol. 2 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988), 31-52.

Eloise Quiñones Keber, "Reading Images: The Making and Meaning of Sahagún Drawings," in The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-Century Mexico, ed. J. Jorge Klor de Alva, H.B. Nicholson, and Eloise Quiñones Keber, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, "Studies on Culture and Society," vol. 2 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988), 199-210.

Jeanette Favrot Peterson, "The Flortentine Codex Imagery and the Colonial Tlacuilo," in The Work of Bernardino de Sahagún: Pioneer Ethnographer of Sixteenth-Century Mexico, ed. Klor de Alva, Jorge, H.B. Nicholson, and Eloise Quiñones Keber, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies, "Studies on Culture and Society," vol. 2 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1988), 288-293.

Alfredo López Austin, "The Research Method of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún: The Questionnaires," in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Work of Bernardino Sahagún, ed. Munro Edmonson, A School of American Research Book (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974), 115-122, 133-134, 137-139, 144-147.

Miguel Léon-Portilla, "The Problematics of Sahagún: Certain Topics Needing Investigation," in Sixteenth-Century Mexico: The Work of Bernardino Sahagún, ed. Munro Edmonson, A School of American Research Book (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1974), 243-249.

Thomas Cummins, "From Lies to Truth: Colonial Ekphrasis and the Act of Crosscultural Translation," in Reframing the Renaissance: Visual Culture and Latin America, 1450-1650, ed. Claire Farago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), 152-174.

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, The Great Temple of the Aztecs: Treasures of Tenochtitlan, trans. by Doris Hayden (London: Thames and Hudson, 1988), 85-121.



The Social Life of Things

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Arjun Appadurai, "Introduction: Commodities and the Politics of Value," in The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 3-63.

Igor Kopytoff, "The Cultural Biography of Things: Commoditization as Process," in The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective, ed. Arjun Appadurai (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 64-91.

Daniel Miller, "Subjects and Objects of Devotion," chapter three in A Theory of Shopping (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1998), 111-155.

Peter Jackson and Nigel Thrift, "Geographies of Consumption," in Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies, ed. Daniel Miller (London: Routledge, 1995), 204-237.

Daniel Miller, "Consumption Studies as the Transformation of Anthropology," in Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New Studies, ed. Daniel Miller (London: Routledge, 1995), 264-295.



Otherness and Things, Time and Distance

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James Clifford, "On Ethnographic Surrealism," Comparative Studies in Society and History, v 23, n 4 (1981): 539-564.

Mary W. Helms, Ulysses' Sail: An Ethnographic Odyssey of Power, Knowledge, and Geographical Distance (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988), 3-19, 111-130, 163-171, 269-292.

Johannes Fabian, Time and Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), 1-21, 37-69, 105-141, 183-196.

Michael Ames, Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1992), 49-58, 139-150, 175-201.

Richard Price and Sally Price, "Executing Culture: Musée, Museo, Museum," American Anthropologist v 97, n 1 (1995): 97-109.

Miriam Kahn, "Heterotopic Dissonance in the Museum Representation of Pacific Island Cultures," American Anthropologist, v 97, n 2 (1995): 324-338.

David Jenkins, "Object Lessons and Ethnographic Displays: Museum Exhibitions and the Making of American Anthropology," Comparative Studies in Society and History, v 36, n 2 (1994): 242-270

Anna Laura Jones, "Exploding Canons: The Anthropology of Museums," Annual Review of Anthropology, v 22 (1993): 201-220.

A.-H. Pitt-Rivers, "Principles of Classification," in The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays of the Late Lt.-Gen. A. Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, ed. J.L. Myres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906), 1-19; reprinted from Journal of the Anthropological Institute, 4 (1875): 293-308.

Henry Balfour, "Introduction," in The Evolution of Culture and Other Essays of the Late Lt.-Gen. A. Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers, ed. J.L. Myres (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906), v-xx; reprint of "The Relationship of Museums to the Study of Anthropology," Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, v 34, n 7, (1904): 10-19.

Franz Boas, "The Principles of Ethnological Classification," in The Shaping of American Anthropology 1883-1911: A Franz Boas Reader, ed. George W. Stocking, Jr. (New York: Basic Books, 1974), 61-67.

Matti Bunzel, "Franz Boas and the Humboldtian Tradition," in Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition, ed. George W. Stocking, Jr., "History of Anthropology," vol. 8 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), 52-63.

Ira Jacknis, "The Ethnographic Object and the Object of Ethnology in the Early Career of Franz Boas," in Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition, ed. George W. Stocking, Jr., "History of Anthropology," vol. 8 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), 185-214.

Judith Berman, "The Culture as it Appears to the Indian Himself," in Volksgeist as Method and Ethic: Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological Tradition, ed. George W. Stocking, Jr., "History of Anthropology," vol. 8 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996), 215-256.

Cornelius Osgood, Ingalik Material Culture, Yale University Publications in Anthropology, number 22 (New Haven: Human Relations Area Files Press, 1970), 25-29, 50-61, 430-448.

Mary W. Helms, Craft and the Kingly Ideal: Art, Trade and Power (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1993), 91-108, 146-159.



Other Orders/Sensibilities

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Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language among the Western Apache (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1996), 41-59, 99-111, 120-140, 143-146.

Cesare Poppi, "Secrecy as a Modality of Knowledge: Comparative Issues in West African and European Systems of Thought." Conference Paper Draft.

Suzanne Küchler, "Sacrificial Economy and Its Objects: Rethinking Colonial Collecting in Oceania," Journal of Material Culture, v 2, n 1 (1997): 39-60.

Craig Clunas, "China in Britain: The Imperial Collections," in Colonialism and Its Objects: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum, ed. Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn, (London: Routledge, 1998), 41-51.

Eileen Hooper-Greenhill, "Perspectives on Hinemihi: A Maori Meeting House," in Colonialism and Its Objects: Empire, Material Culture and the Museum, ed. Tim Barringer and Tom Flynn (London: Routledge, 1998), 129-143.

B. N. Goswamy, "Another Past, Another Context: Exhibiting Indian Art Abroad," in Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, ed. Ivan Carp and Steven Lavine (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1991), 68-78.

James Clifford, "Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections," in Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display, ed. Ivan Carp and Steven Lavine (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Press, 1991), 212-254.

J. Edson Way, "Modern Gallery Exhibition as a Form of Western-Indigenous Discourse," in Imagery and Creativity: Ethnoaesthetics and Art Worlds in the Americas, ed. Norman and Dorothea Whitten (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1993): 109-127.

Lissant Bolton, "A Place Containing Many Places," Museums and the Use of Objects to Represent Place in Melanesia," Australian Journal of Anthropology, v 8, n 1 (1997): 18-34.

Jeffrey Mauger and Janine Bowechop, "Tribal Collections Management at the Makah Culture and Research Center," Perspectives: A Resource for Tribal Museums, no 2 (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Office of Museum Programs, American Indian Museum Studies Program, 1995).

Mina McKenzie, "A Challenge to Museums: Keeping the Taonga Warm," Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, vol. 118, n. 1 (1993): 79-85.

Mary Nooter Roberts, "Luba Memory Theater," in Memory: Luba and the Making of History, ed. Mary Nooter Roberts and Allen F. Roberts (New York: The Museum for African Art, 1996), 117-149.

Edward Sapir, Culture, Language and Personality: Selected Essays (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1970), 34-36, 68-69.

Benjamin Lee Whorf, Language, Thought and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf, ed. John B. Carroll (New York and London: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press and John B. Wiley and Sons, 1956, repr. 1962), 134-159, 199-206.

Robert E. Maclaury, Color and Cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing Categories as Vantages (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1997), 1-45, 179-193, 379-394.

John Baines, "Color Terminology and Color Classification: Ancient Egyptian Color Terminology and Polychromy," American Anthropologist 87 (1985): 282-297.

N. Louanna Furbee and Kelly Maynard, "The Emergence of Color Cognition from Color Perception," Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 6, 2 (1997): 223-240.

Wang Tao, "Colour Terms in Shang Oracle Bone Inscriptions," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 59, 1 (1996): 63-101.

David Turton, "There's No Such Beast: Cattle and Colour Naming among the Mursi," Man: The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, 2 (1980): 320-338.

David Stea, Daniel Carson, and Benjamin Wisner, "Navajo Color Categories and Color Discrimination: An Experiment in the Relation between Language and Perception," Anthropology UCLA 4, 2 (1972): 27-38.



Supplement

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Doran H. Ross, "The Verbal Art of Akan Linguist Staffs," African Arts v. 16, n. 1 (November 1982): 56-66.

Marla C. Berns, "Pots as People: Yungur Ancestral Portraits," African Arts v. 23, n. 3 (July 1990): 50-60.