Alison K Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 117703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alison K Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alison K |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6629-1363 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From mammoth to miniature: Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts' as a narrative object
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation, carved from mammoth ivory in the mid-nineteenth…
Special Section: Leading Thinkers in the Field - Howard Morphy
Anthropology, Art, and Ethnographic Collections: A Conversation with Howard Morphy Jason M. Gibson (JG): In your book Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities (Morphy 2020), you begin with an anecdote of visiting the Pitt Rivers Museum as a young child. Did museums play a part in sparking an interest in humanity, and its diversity, or were you fascinated by the Other? Book Review: Museums, So…
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi Aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation (Brownstone)
This work is a book review considering the title War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation by Arni Brownstone
Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
FIgUre 1 Shirt with painted war honours, 1893.67.1 2 Shirt with layers of paint, 1893.67.2 3 Shirt for formal occasions, 1893.67.3 4 Shirt with replaced quillwork, 1893.67.4 5 Shirt for working, 1893.67.5 6 Map of Blackfoot territory 7 Writing-on-Stone area, with Sweetpine Hills (also known as Sweetgrass Hills) in background 8 Napi's playground 9 Encampment of the Peikann Indians, by Karl Bodmer, 1832-34 Petroglyph showing shirt, Writing-on-Stone…
Reports
MEETING REPORTS Return of the Native: Contestation, Collaboration, and Co-authorship in Museum Spaces, Australian National University, 18–19 June 2015 Access Is a Human Right: The Federation of International Human Rights Museums Conference, Te Papa, Wellington, 23–25 September 2015 PROJECT REPORTS Narrative Objects: The Sakha Summer Festival and Cultural Revitalization Object, Document, and Materiality: Outline of an Ongoing Research Project Muse…
New perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, histories, and representations - Edited by Sergei A. Kan & Pauline Turner Strong
Museums And Source Communities
Collecting Material Folklore: Motivations and Methods in the Owen and Hasluck Collections
This paper will examine two early folklore collections: the Mary Alicia Owen Collection of Mesquakie beadwork and the Margaret Hasluck collection of Balkan textiles and folklore. The collections will be analysed within the historical context of the collecting of material folklore and its place within museums. The focus will be upon the methods the collectors used to create their collections, addressing the extent of indigenous agency within the c…
Catlin's O-kee-pa: Mandan Culture and Ceremonial: The George Catlin O-kee-pa Manuscript in the British Museum
Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
FIgUre 1 Shirt with painted war honours, 1893.67.1 2 Shirt with layers of paint, 1893.67.2 3 Shirt for formal occasions, 1893.67.3 4 Shirt with replaced quillwork, 1893.67.4 5 Shirt for working, 1893.67.5 6 Map of Blackfoot territory 7 Writing-on-Stone area, with Sweetpine Hills (also known as Sweetgrass Hills) in background 8 Napi's playground 9 Encampment of the Peikann Indians, by Karl Bodmer, 1832-34 Petroglyph showing shirt, Writing-on-Stone…
War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation (Brownstone)
This work is a book review considering the title War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation by Arni Brownstone
Collecting Material Folklore: Motivations and Methods in the Owen and Hasluck Collections
This paper will examine two early folklore collections: the Mary Alicia Owen Collection of Mesquakie beadwork and the Margaret Hasluck collection of Balkan textiles and folklore. The collections will be analysed within the historical context of the collecting of material folklore and its place within museums. The focus will be upon the methods the collectors used to create their collections, addressing the extent of indigenous agency within the c…
Collecting Material Folklore: Motivations and Methods in the Owen and Hasluck Collections
This paper will examine two early folklore collections: the Mary Alicia Owen Collection of Mesquakie beadwork and the Margaret Hasluck collection of Balkan textiles and folklore. The collections will be analysed within the historical context of the collecting of material folklore and its place within museums. The focus will be upon the methods the collectors used to create their collections, addressing the extent of indigenous agency within the c…
Catlin's O-kee-pa: Mandan Culture and Ceremonial: The George Catlin O-kee-pa Manuscript in the British Museum
Museums And Source Communities
New perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, histories, and representations - Edited by Sergei A. Kan & Pauline Turner Strong
Reports
MEETING REPORTS Return of the Native: Contestation, Collaboration, and Co-authorship in Museum Spaces, Australian National University, 18–19 June 2015 Access Is a Human Right: The Federation of International Human Rights Museums Conference, Te Papa, Wellington, 23–25 September 2015 PROJECT REPORTS Narrative Objects: The Sakha Summer Festival and Cultural Revitalization Object, Document, and Materiality: Outline of an Ongoing Research Project Muse…
War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation (Brownstone)
This work is a book review considering the title War Paintings of the Tsuu T’ina Nation by Arni Brownstone
Visiting with the Ancestors: Blackfoot Shirts in Museum Spaces
FIgUre 1 Shirt with painted war honours, 1893.67.1 2 Shirt with layers of paint, 1893.67.2 3 Shirt for formal occasions, 1893.67.3 4 Shirt with replaced quillwork, 1893.67.4 5 Shirt for working, 1893.67.5 6 Map of Blackfoot territory 7 Writing-on-Stone area, with Sweetpine Hills (also known as Sweetgrass Hills) in background 8 Napi's playground 9 Encampment of the Peikann Indians, by Karl Bodmer, 1832-34 Petroglyph showing shirt, Writing-on-Stone…
Pictures Bring Us Messages / Sinaakssiiksi Aohtsimaahpihkookiyaawa: Photographs and Histories from the Kainai Nation
Special Section: Leading Thinkers in the Field - Howard Morphy
Anthropology, Art, and Ethnographic Collections: A Conversation with Howard Morphy Jason M. Gibson (JG): In your book Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities (Morphy 2020), you begin with an anecdote of visiting the Pitt Rivers Museum as a young child. Did museums play a part in sparking an interest in humanity, and its diversity, or were you fascinated by the Other? Book Review: Museums, So…
From mammoth to miniature: Model of a summer encampment of the Yakuts' as a narrative object
Classic anthropological accounts of miniature objects have focused on their spatial and aesthetic dimensions, with more recent work addressing their communicative potential, connections with play, and role in protecting threatened cultural knowledge. This article analyses responses to a miniature landscape model of yhyakh, a festival celebrated in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation, carved from mammoth ivory in the mid-nineteenth…
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