Erin L Hasinoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 588615 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin L Hasinoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasinoff |
| SIGNATURE | HASINOFF E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | American Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4099-1040 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Eat Your TeaTM: The Unexpected and Unfinished Intercultural History of Fermented Tea Leaf Salad (Laphet Thoke)
“Who would have thought that out of all the dishes on our menu, Americans would go nuts for a salad mixed with a dark savory paste of fermented tea?” The demand for Burma Superstar’s laphet thoke (fermented tea leaf salad) came initially as a surprise to San Francisco-restaurateur Desmond Tan. By 2018 the restaurant’s fermented tea leaf salad was the fourth most popular restaurant item in the country on Yelp. The dish’s nascent stardom is a drama…
Making spirits, making art, Nat carving and contemporary painting in pre-transition Myanmar (Burma)
Embodiment, materiality, and technology intersect in the production of sacred images where tools, media, and intangible studio protocols inform the production of efficacious things. In Myanmar nat spirits appear in the bodies of costumed spirit mediums and in the intimately tended statues that adorn their altars. Prior to the recent democratic transition, nats appeared as the subjects of paintings, sometimes offering sociopolitical commentaries. …
The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives
"In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of Expeditions draws together contributions from anthropologists and historians of science to explore the role of these journeys in natural history and anthropology between approximately 1890 and 1930. By examining collected materials as well as museum and arch…
Faith in Objects
Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interaction
Missionary Engagements
While unpacking the crates of the Missionary Exhibit, Franz Boas lamented that the disoriented and poorly documented collection was "very fragmentary," with "many gaps," but he hoped that missionaries could develop it "vigorously on lines which hitherto were not represented at all in [the museum's] collections."1 In this ethnography of collecting, it is here that I take a moment to dwell on Boas' correspondence about the prospects of the collecti…
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum
Christian trophies or Asmat ethnografica: Fr. Zegwaard and the American Museum of Natural History Asmat Collection,1958-9
Missionary collections have been considered to be scarcely more than curious accumulations of Christian trophies, collected trappings of 'savagery' and 'heathenism' and articles displaying a readiness for missionary investment. On the contrary, ethnological collections, in their comprehensiveness, have been thought to provide tangible traces of a disciplinary methodology and scientific objectivity characteristic of the ethnological museum. In thi…
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Christian trophies or Asmat ethnografica: Fr. Zegwaard and the American Museum of Natural History Asmat Collection,1958-9
Missionary collections have been considered to be scarcely more than curious accumulations of Christian trophies, collected trappings of 'savagery' and 'heathenism' and articles displaying a readiness for missionary investment. On the contrary, ethnological collections, in their comprehensiveness, have been thought to provide tangible traces of a disciplinary methodology and scientific objectivity characteristic of the ethnological museum. In thi…
Faith in Objects
Hasinoff brings the untold history of the World in Boston of 1911, 'America's First Great Missionary Exposition,' to light, focusing on how the material culture of missions shaped domestic interaction
Missionary Engagements
While unpacking the crates of the Missionary Exhibit, Franz Boas lamented that the disoriented and poorly documented collection was "very fragmentary," with "many gaps," but he hoped that missionaries could develop it "vigorously on lines which hitherto were not represented at all in [the museum's] collections."1 In this ethnography of collecting, it is here that I take a moment to dwell on Boas' correspondence about the prospects of the collecti…
Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait. Exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum
The Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, Afterlives
"In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of Expeditions draws together contributions from anthropologists and historians of science to explore the role of these journeys in natural history and anthropology between approximately 1890 and 1930. By examining collected materials as well as museum and arch…
Making spirits, making art, Nat carving and contemporary painting in pre-transition Myanmar (Burma)
Embodiment, materiality, and technology intersect in the production of sacred images where tools, media, and intangible studio protocols inform the production of efficacious things. In Myanmar nat spirits appear in the bodies of costumed spirit mediums and in the intimately tended statues that adorn their altars. Prior to the recent democratic transition, nats appeared as the subjects of paintings, sometimes offering sociopolitical commentaries. …
Eat Your TeaTM: The Unexpected and Unfinished Intercultural History of Fermented Tea Leaf Salad (Laphet Thoke)
“Who would have thought that out of all the dishes on our menu, Americans would go nuts for a salad mixed with a dark savory paste of fermented tea?” The demand for Burma Superstar’s laphet thoke (fermented tea leaf salad) came initially as a surprise to San Francisco-restaurateur Desmond Tan. By 2018 the restaurant’s fermented tea leaf salad was the fourth most popular restaurant item in the country on Yelp. The dish’s nascent stardom is a drama…
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