H Geismar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4786 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | H Geismar |
| NOMBRES | H |
| APELLIDO | Geismar |
| FIRMA | GEISMAR H |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3320-593X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 219 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Finding a Form
This article explores the everyday challenges of collaboration between community groups and heritage organizations in England. I explore how political and ideological debates about the moral principles of repatriation (and the legal and bureaucratic frameworks that continue to bolster colonial ownership and circumscribe community relations to cultural heritage) are managed within everyday working practices, conversations, and ways of being within…
(Re)Sounding images
The first of two special sections exploring the relationships between sound and the photographic image. The section's articles by Darren Newbury, Richard Vokes, and Paul Basu are concerned with issues of sound, voice, and silence in relation to archival photographs. The introductory essay discusses these visual anthropologies of silence and voice, both acknowledging their debt to Elizabeth Edward's theorizing of the “orality of photographs,” but …
Introduction 2.0
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores contours of the emerging subfield of digital anthropology. It outlines six core themes that they identified as characterising digital anthropology, extending their earlier work on cell phones and the internet The book provides a manifesto for a particular kind of social or cultural anthropology, arguing for a holistic fo…
Museum + digital = ?
This chapter argues that very particular definitions of accessibility, democratization and the social have been imported into museums inside of digital media and that the task of the digital anthropologist is to try to place these values and expectations about how digital media can work in museums in cultural and local context. The emergence of digital technologies in museums is in fact part of a long-standing trajectory of networking, classifyin…
Necrography
When it comes to the study of artworks as material culture, there are few more familiar idioms than that of the “life-history” of the object. From Arjun Appadurai’s formulation of “the social life of things” (1986) to Bruno Latour’s business-school model of “actor-networks” (1993), over the past generation a particular variety of materialist anthropology has taken root in those parts of historical studies that deal with things. “If humans have bi…
Museum + Digital = ?
This chapter discusses and describes the effects of this kind of technological mediation on museum practice and experience. It focuses on the remediation of collections online and in the space of the museum catalogue and storeroom. The chapter also focuses on how digital projects ‘encode’ theories of digital sociality and how the digital coproduces not only representations of objects and social relations, but collections and sociality in museum w…
The 2018 John Collier Jr. Award for Excellence in the Use of Still Photography
John Collier Jr. Award for Use of Photography in Anthropology
Patina
Reviewed by: Patina: A Profane Archaeology by Shannon Lee Dawdy Haidy Geismar Shannon Lee Dawdy, Patina: A Profane Archaeology. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2016. 216 pp. Patina is a material layer that accrues over time on the surface of an object, congealing social values and a sense of the past. For many of the inhabitants of New Orleans, patina has come to signify both the emergence and submergence of the past in the present. As Shannon…
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Twenty Years On
the investigation of the relationship between people and things irrespective of time and space. The perspective adopted may be global or local, concerned with the past or the present, or the mediation between the two. Defined in this manner, the potential range of contemporary disciplines involved in some way or other in studying material culture is effectively as wide as the human and cultural sciences themselves. (Editorial Board, 1996: 5)
Anthropology and Heritage Regimes
This review unpacks some of the assumptions that underpin contemporary national heritage regimes. The genealogy of modern heritage exposes the entanglement of heritage, entitlement, resources, and property and underpins the frame of the modern nation-state. The article also highlights the implications of this genealogy for the processes of objectification, recognition, and new, expanded, ethical subject positions.
Post-Photographic Presences, or How to Wear a Digital Cloak
This article explores some of the tensions that digital processing introduces to our understanding of photography by focusing on digital images of a Māori cloak from New Zealand held in the UCL Ethnography Collections. The complex, energetic/electrical networks established not only by digital communication technologies but also between Māori people and their taonga (treasured possessions) expand the understanding of both photographic indexicality…
Tricksters everywhere
Comment on Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. London and New York: Verso
Saltwater sociality
"Saltwater sociality: A Melanesian island ethnography, by Katharina Schneider." Anthropological Forum, 24(3), pp. 310–311
Drawing It Out
The fieldwork sketches of A rthur B ernard D eacon, made in V anuatu in 1926–27, give us insight into the early methodologies of social anthropology and into the role of images in anthropological ways of thinking. Here I develop a perspective on field sketches that explores them not only as visual mediations of the fieldworker's subjectivity, but also as genre pieces that indicate very particular forms of training in “how to see.” I draw out the …
On Open Access and journal futures
Resisting settler-colonial property relations? The WAI 262 claim and report in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper gives a brief survey of the WAI 262 claim, and the Tribunal Report, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Colloquially known as the Native or Indigenous Flora and Fauna Claim, WAI 262 was the first whole of government claim to the Waitangi Tribunal, requiring a commission of enquiry to investigate how New Zealand constitutes intellectual and cultural property regimes in relation to Māori peoples across the spectrum of governance, from arts and cult…
Treasured Possessions
Introduction: culture, property, indigeneity -- Mapping the terrain -- Indigeneity and law in the Pacific -- Copyright in context : carvers, carvings and commodities in Vanuatu -- Trademarking Maori : aestheticization and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Pacific museologies and indigenous property theories -- Treasured commodities, taonga at auction -- Pig bank: imagining the economy in Vanuatu
Social relationships and digital relationships
In this paper, we seek to unravel and interrogate the aesthetics of the museum database, and the links between digital and social relationships within the museum and beyond, using as a case study the development of an integrated database system for the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, or Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS). The VKS database both draws relationships of knowledge, practice, and collection into view and generates connections in a newly national tr…
Material Culture Studies' and other Ways to Theorize Objects
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Assembling bodies
The Photograph and the Malanggan
From the recent efflorescence of anthropological engagements with photography we are by now aware that photography is an embodied practice and that photographs are complex materialisations of the subjective and experiential as well as the objective and evidential. Despite discussions of ‘visual repatriation’ (e.g. Brown and Peers 2006), and of local responses to colonial photography and other kinds of archival images in the Pacific, little has be…
Materialising Oceania
Oceania occupies an intriguing place within anthropology’s genealogy. In the introduction to this collection of essays, we examine the role of the ethnography of Oceania in the development of our anthropological perspectives on materialisation, the dynamic process by which persons and things are inter‐related. Building upon the recent resurgence of theoretical interests in things we use the term materialisation (rather than material culture or ma…
Tattoo
What's in a Price
Typically, the auction house salesroom has been conceived of as an exemplary market: a place in which ultimate price is fixed by persons at a particular moment. This perspective relies on a static a-historical view of an isolated marketplace. This study views the auction sale of tribal art as one part of a wider economic set, within which objects and persons interact to momentarily assign price (or not). It thereby expands the common anthropologi…
Treasured Possessions
Introduction: culture, property, indigeneity -- Mapping the terrain -- Indigeneity and law in the Pacific -- Copyright in context : carvers, carvings and commodities in Vanuatu -- Trademarking Maori : aestheticization and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Pacific museologies and indigenous property theories -- Treasured commodities, taonga at auction -- Pig bank: imagining the economy in Vanuatu
Copyright in context
Much of the anthropology of indigenous copyright and other forms of intellectual property focuses on the ways in which indigenous understandings of reproductive entitlement diverge from the Euro-American or Western property values perceived to be enshrined within national and international legislation. I argue that in Vanuatu, local chiefs and carvers have successfully merged international and indigenous reckonings of entitlement within their und…
Cultural Property, Museums, and the Pacific
The following short articles were presented at a special session of the Pacific Arts Association, held at the College Arts Association annual meeting in New York in February 2007. Entitled "Cultural Properties-Reconnecting Pacific Arts," the panel brought together curators and anthropologists working in the Pacific, and with Pacific collections elsewhere, with the intention of presenting a series of case studies evoking the discourse around cultu…
Materializing Ethnography
The articles in this volume were originally presented in a panel entitled \n‘Material Methodologies’ at the American Anthropological Association \nmeeting in New Orleans (November 2002). The panel was devised to tie \ntogether theoretical advances in the study of the material with the \ncreative possibilities of fieldwork practices. Through detailed ethnographic \ndiscussion, we highlighted the ways in which a focus on a \nspecifically material w…
Drawing It Out
The fieldwork sketches of A rthur B ernard D eacon, made in V anuatu in 1926–27, give us insight into the early methodologies of social anthropology and into the role of images in anthropological ways of thinking. Here I develop a perspective on field sketches that explores them not only as visual mediations of the fieldworker's subjectivity, but also as genre pieces that indicate very particular forms of training in “how to see.” I draw out the …
Social relationships and digital relationships
In this paper, we seek to unravel and interrogate the aesthetics of the museum database, and the links between digital and social relationships within the museum and beyond, using as a case study the development of an integrated database system for the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, or Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS). The VKS database both draws relationships of knowledge, practice, and collection into view and generates connections in a newly national tr…
Material Culture Studies' and other Ways to Theorize Objects
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Malakula
During the year, the Museum has received from Dr. Haddon a gift of the first importance in the shape of his collection of several thousands of anthropological photographs, accumulated by him over a very long period and from every part of the world. In honour of Dr. Haddon's eightieth birthday these photographs had been put in order, prints made from the negatives, and the whole collection catalogued, uniformly mounted, and arranged in a cabinet s…
Reproduction, creativity, restriction
Copyright legislation is often described in relation to a series of abstract legal and economic constructs, without due attention to the ways in which it may be constituted by the persons and artifacts that it legislates over. In this article, I focus in detail on some ways in which concepts of copyright are negotiated in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. I analyze copyright in relation to the technical, social and conceptual processes of…
Necrography
When it comes to the study of artworks as material culture, there are few more familiar idioms than that of the “life-history” of the object. From Arjun Appadurai’s formulation of “the social life of things” (1986) to Bruno Latour’s business-school model of “actor-networks” (1993), over the past generation a particular variety of materialist anthropology has taken root in those parts of historical studies that deal with things. “If humans have bi…
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
The Materiality of Contemporary Art in Vanuatu
Close examination of material forms and the social relations within which they are embedded soon reveals that things have the capability to affect the way people think. Here, I focus on the recent development of the category of contemporary art in Vanuatu, a nation comprising over 70 inhabited islands in the south-western Pacific ocean. Contemporary art in Vanuatu is a local classification that draws on both traditional objects and iconographies …
Stone Men of Malekulaon Malakula
This article examines the resonances of the voluminous ethnography, 'Stone Men of Malekula' (SMM) in contemporary Vanuatu. Anthropological research is politically charged in Vanuatu, in part because of how the weighty materiality of archival forms exercise significant local authority. However, alongside respect for this 'evidential' material is a healthy scepticism of anthropological authority. SMM, written by the maverick anthropologist John Lay…
Twenty Years On
the investigation of the relationship between people and things irrespective of time and space. The perspective adopted may be global or local, concerned with the past or the present, or the mediation between the two. Defined in this manner, the potential range of contemporary disciplines involved in some way or other in studying material culture is effectively as wide as the human and cultural sciences themselves. (Editorial Board, 1996: 5)
Tricksters everywhere
Comment on Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. London and New York: Verso
Slit Drums on Atchin
What's in a Price
Typically, the auction house salesroom has been conceived of as an exemplary market: a place in which ultimate price is fixed by persons at a particular moment. This perspective relies on a static a-historical view of an isolated marketplace. This study views the auction sale of tribal art as one part of a wider economic set, within which objects and persons interact to momentarily assign price (or not). It thereby expands the common anthropologi…
Negotiating Materiality
In this paper, we examine the idiosyncratic ways in which the Vanuatu Cultural Centre has incorporated global museum technologies into highly localised systems of object management. The convergence of understandings of subject‐object relations, and indeed of materiality, highlights the effects of museum practices of objectification on local practice as well as the effects of local agenda on museum practice. In constructing a holistic analysis of …
The Materiality of Contemporary Art in Vanuatu
Close examination of material forms and the social relations within which they are embedded soon reveals that things have the capability to affect the way people think. Here, I focus on the recent development of the category of contemporary art in Vanuatu, a nation comprising over 70 inhabited islands in the south-western Pacific ocean. Contemporary art in Vanuatu is a local classification that draws on both traditional objects and iconographies …
Materializing Ethnography
The articles in this volume were originally presented in a panel entitled \n‘Material Methodologies’ at the American Anthropological Association \nmeeting in New Orleans (November 2002). The panel was devised to tie \ntogether theoretical advances in the study of the material with the \ncreative possibilities of fieldwork practices. Through detailed ethnographic \ndiscussion, we highlighted the ways in which a focus on a \nspecifically material w…
Slit Drums on Atchin
Copyright in context
Much of the anthropology of indigenous copyright and other forms of intellectual property focuses on the ways in which indigenous understandings of reproductive entitlement diverge from the Euro-American or Western property values perceived to be enshrined within national and international legislation. I argue that in Vanuatu, local chiefs and carvers have successfully merged international and indigenous reckonings of entitlement within their und…
Reproduction, creativity, restriction
Copyright legislation is often described in relation to a series of abstract legal and economic constructs, without due attention to the ways in which it may be constituted by the persons and artifacts that it legislates over. In this article, I focus in detail on some ways in which concepts of copyright are negotiated in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. I analyze copyright in relation to the technical, social and conceptual processes of…
Malakula
During the year, the Museum has received from Dr. Haddon a gift of the first importance in the shape of his collection of several thousands of anthropological photographs, accumulated by him over a very long period and from every part of the world. In honour of Dr. Haddon's eightieth birthday these photographs had been put in order, prints made from the negatives, and the whole collection catalogued, uniformly mounted, and arranged in a cabinet s…
Cultural Property, Museums, and the Pacific
The following short articles were presented at a special session of the Pacific Arts Association, held at the College Arts Association annual meeting in New York in February 2007. Entitled "Cultural Properties-Reconnecting Pacific Arts," the panel brought together curators and anthropologists working in the Pacific, and with Pacific collections elsewhere, with the intention of presenting a series of case studies evoking the discourse around cultu…
The Photograph and the Malanggan
From the recent efflorescence of anthropological engagements with photography we are by now aware that photography is an embodied practice and that photographs are complex materialisations of the subjective and experiential as well as the objective and evidential. Despite discussions of ‘visual repatriation’ (e.g. Brown and Peers 2006), and of local responses to colonial photography and other kinds of archival images in the Pacific, little has be…
Materialising Oceania
Oceania occupies an intriguing place within anthropology’s genealogy. In the introduction to this collection of essays, we examine the role of the ethnography of Oceania in the development of our anthropological perspectives on materialisation, the dynamic process by which persons and things are inter‐related. Building upon the recent resurgence of theoretical interests in things we use the term materialisation (rather than material culture or ma…
Stone Men of Malekulaon Malakula
This article examines the resonances of the voluminous ethnography, 'Stone Men of Malekula' (SMM) in contemporary Vanuatu. Anthropological research is politically charged in Vanuatu, in part because of how the weighty materiality of archival forms exercise significant local authority. However, alongside respect for this 'evidential' material is a healthy scepticism of anthropological authority. SMM, written by the maverick anthropologist John Lay…
Assembling bodies
Social relationships and digital relationships
In this paper, we seek to unravel and interrogate the aesthetics of the museum database, and the links between digital and social relationships within the museum and beyond, using as a case study the development of an integrated database system for the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, or Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta (VKS). The VKS database both draws relationships of knowledge, practice, and collection into view and generates connections in a newly national tr…
Material Culture Studies' and other Ways to Theorize Objects
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Resisting settler-colonial property relations? The WAI 262 claim and report in Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper gives a brief survey of the WAI 262 claim, and the Tribunal Report, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Colloquially known as the Native or Indigenous Flora and Fauna Claim, WAI 262 was the first whole of government claim to the Waitangi Tribunal, requiring a commission of enquiry to investigate how New Zealand constitutes intellectual and cultural property regimes in relation to Māori peoples across the spectrum of governance, from arts and cult…
Treasured Possessions
Introduction: culture, property, indigeneity -- Mapping the terrain -- Indigeneity and law in the Pacific -- Copyright in context : carvers, carvings and commodities in Vanuatu -- Trademarking Maori : aestheticization and inclusion in Aotearoa New Zealand -- Pacific museologies and indigenous property theories -- Treasured commodities, taonga at auction -- Pig bank: imagining the economy in Vanuatu
Saltwater sociality
"Saltwater sociality: A Melanesian island ethnography, by Katharina Schneider." Anthropological Forum, 24(3), pp. 310–311
Drawing It Out
The fieldwork sketches of A rthur B ernard D eacon, made in V anuatu in 1926–27, give us insight into the early methodologies of social anthropology and into the role of images in anthropological ways of thinking. Here I develop a perspective on field sketches that explores them not only as visual mediations of the fieldworker's subjectivity, but also as genre pieces that indicate very particular forms of training in “how to see.” I draw out the …
On Open Access and journal futures
Anthropology and Heritage Regimes
This review unpacks some of the assumptions that underpin contemporary national heritage regimes. The genealogy of modern heritage exposes the entanglement of heritage, entitlement, resources, and property and underpins the frame of the modern nation-state. The article also highlights the implications of this genealogy for the processes of objectification, recognition, and new, expanded, ethical subject positions.
Post-Photographic Presences, or How to Wear a Digital Cloak
This article explores some of the tensions that digital processing introduces to our understanding of photography by focusing on digital images of a Māori cloak from New Zealand held in the UCL Ethnography Collections. The complex, energetic/electrical networks established not only by digital communication technologies but also between Māori people and their taonga (treasured possessions) expand the understanding of both photographic indexicality…
Tricksters everywhere
Comment on Coleman, Gabriella. 2014. Hacker, hoaxer, whistleblower, spy: The many faces of Anonymous. London and New York: Verso
Social Media in Rural China
for inviting me to present and receive feedback on
Twenty Years On
the investigation of the relationship between people and things irrespective of time and space. The perspective adopted may be global or local, concerned with the past or the present, or the mediation between the two. Defined in this manner, the potential range of contemporary disciplines involved in some way or other in studying material culture is effectively as wide as the human and cultural sciences themselves. (Editorial Board, 1996: 5)
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