Jen Shannon
Biographic Data
| ID | 649225 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jen Shannon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jen |
| FAMILY NAME | Shannon |
| SIGNATURE | SHANNON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0271-2365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anthropology, Empathy, and the Need for Social Science Communication
This is a call to science communicators and science journalists to feature social science research and researchers in their reporting, with an emphasis on anthropology and its potential to increase public empathy, improve the quality of public discourse, and contribute to contextual and narrative news trends
My Cry Gets Up to My Throat: Dysplacement, Indigenous Storywork, and Visual Sovereignty in the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation
The repatriation of sacred objects from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History to the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in North Dakota established the foundation for a long-term research partnership that resulted in an oral history project and documentary about the life and times of a missionary to the reservation in the past, and it provided a means for elders to historicize the present and communicate to the next generation their con…
Posterity Is Now
Guided by the notion that posterity is now, this is a call to take seriously the experiences of museum staff working in collaboration and consultation with Native peoples and to reorient the purpose of the museum to the values embedded in these interactions. Namely, this statement recognizes that heritage work in museum collections is not only about cultural identity and the past, but more often it is oriented toward the present and future of Ind…
Ethno/Graphic Storytelling: Communicating Research and Exploring Pedagogical Approaches through Graphic Narratives, Drawings, and Zines
Collections Care Informed by Native American Perspectives: Teaching the Next Generation
Through repatriation consultations, collaborative exhibitions, and research projects with Native peoples, anthropology curators and collections managers are learning different interpretations of best practice in the care of Native American collections. In this case study of the Museum and Field Studies (MFS) program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, we review the practice and potential of bringing those perspectives to bear on the next gene…
Ritual Processes of Repatriation
What do those who participate in repatriation-on behalf of the museums and the communities to whom there is return-most want people to know about it? Nine prominent scholars provide short commentaries in response to this special section on the ritual processes of repatriation. The discussants are museum professionals, Indigenous community members, repatriation claimants, and repatriation officers; these are not mutually exclusive categories. They…
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
We are Coming Home is an oral history of relationship building between museums and First Nations and their efforts over thirty years to return sacred bundles to Blackfoot First Nations in Canada, f
The Professionalization of Indigeneity in the Carib Territory of Dominica
The origin of enduring stereotypes of Native peoples conjured by Christopher Columbus in the late-fifteenth century, the Kalinago people of today live in Dominica, an island with a unique, complicated history of settlement and resistance. Kalinagos dedicated to raising "cultural consciousness" participate in Dominican museum and heritage projects as well as in international indigenous meetings abroad. This article suggests the concept of "the pro…
On Transitions and Change: Considerations for a Sustainable Future
The April 2013 Auction in Paris, France
Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-1975
Book Review| July 01 2006 Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-1975 Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-1975. By James B. LaGrand. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. $34.95 cloth.) Terry Straus; Terry Straus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jennifer Shannon Jennifer Shannon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 620–621. https://do…
Ethnography in Unstable Places
Ethno/Graphic Storytelling: Communicating Research and Exploring Pedagogical Approaches through Graphic Narratives, Drawings, and Zines
Collections Care Informed by Native American Perspectives: Teaching the Next Generation
Through repatriation consultations, collaborative exhibitions, and research projects with Native peoples, anthropology curators and collections managers are learning different interpretations of best practice in the care of Native American collections. In this case study of the Museum and Field Studies (MFS) program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, we review the practice and potential of bringing those perspectives to bear on the next gene…
Ethnography in Unstable Places
Posterity Is Now
Guided by the notion that posterity is now, this is a call to take seriously the experiences of museum staff working in collaboration and consultation with Native peoples and to reorient the purpose of the museum to the values embedded in these interactions. Namely, this statement recognizes that heritage work in museum collections is not only about cultural identity and the past, but more often it is oriented toward the present and future of Ind…
On Transitions and Change: Considerations for a Sustainable Future
Anthropology, Empathy, and the Need for Social Science Communication
This is a call to science communicators and science journalists to feature social science research and researchers in their reporting, with an emphasis on anthropology and its potential to increase public empathy, improve the quality of public discourse, and contribute to contextual and narrative news trends
My Cry Gets Up to My Throat: Dysplacement, Indigenous Storywork, and Visual Sovereignty in the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation
The repatriation of sacred objects from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History to the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in North Dakota established the foundation for a long-term research partnership that resulted in an oral history project and documentary about the life and times of a missionary to the reservation in the past, and it provided a means for elders to historicize the present and communicate to the next generation their con…
Ritual Processes of Repatriation
What do those who participate in repatriation-on behalf of the museums and the communities to whom there is return-most want people to know about it? Nine prominent scholars provide short commentaries in response to this special section on the ritual processes of repatriation. The discussants are museum professionals, Indigenous community members, repatriation claimants, and repatriation officers; these are not mutually exclusive categories. They…
The April 2013 Auction in Paris, France
Ethnography in Unstable Places
Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-1975
Book Review| July 01 2006 Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-1975 Indian Metropolis: Native Americans in Chicago, 1945-1975. By James B. LaGrand. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. $34.95 cloth.) Terry Straus; Terry Straus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jennifer Shannon Jennifer Shannon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (3): 620–621. https://do…
On Transitions and Change: Considerations for a Sustainable Future
The April 2013 Auction in Paris, France
The Professionalization of Indigeneity in the Carib Territory of Dominica
The origin of enduring stereotypes of Native peoples conjured by Christopher Columbus in the late-fifteenth century, the Kalinago people of today live in Dominica, an island with a unique, complicated history of settlement and resistance. Kalinagos dedicated to raising "cultural consciousness" participate in Dominican museum and heritage projects as well as in international indigenous meetings abroad. This article suggests the concept of "the pro…
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence
We are Coming Home is an oral history of relationship building between museums and First Nations and their efforts over thirty years to return sacred bundles to Blackfoot First Nations in Canada, f
Collections Care Informed by Native American Perspectives: Teaching the Next Generation
Through repatriation consultations, collaborative exhibitions, and research projects with Native peoples, anthropology curators and collections managers are learning different interpretations of best practice in the care of Native American collections. In this case study of the Museum and Field Studies (MFS) program at the University of Colorado, Boulder, we review the practice and potential of bringing those perspectives to bear on the next gene…
Ritual Processes of Repatriation
What do those who participate in repatriation-on behalf of the museums and the communities to whom there is return-most want people to know about it? Nine prominent scholars provide short commentaries in response to this special section on the ritual processes of repatriation. The discussants are museum professionals, Indigenous community members, repatriation claimants, and repatriation officers; these are not mutually exclusive categories. They…
Posterity Is Now
Guided by the notion that posterity is now, this is a call to take seriously the experiences of museum staff working in collaboration and consultation with Native peoples and to reorient the purpose of the museum to the values embedded in these interactions. Namely, this statement recognizes that heritage work in museum collections is not only about cultural identity and the past, but more often it is oriented toward the present and future of Ind…
Ethno/Graphic Storytelling: Communicating Research and Exploring Pedagogical Approaches through Graphic Narratives, Drawings, and Zines
Anthropology, Empathy, and the Need for Social Science Communication
This is a call to science communicators and science journalists to feature social science research and researchers in their reporting, with an emphasis on anthropology and its potential to increase public empathy, improve the quality of public discourse, and contribute to contextual and narrative news trends
My Cry Gets Up to My Throat: Dysplacement, Indigenous Storywork, and Visual Sovereignty in the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation
The repatriation of sacred objects from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History to the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in North Dakota established the foundation for a long-term research partnership that resulted in an oral history project and documentary about the life and times of a missionary to the reservation in the past, and it provided a means for elders to historicize the present and communicate to the next generation their con…
Sociology (8 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (5 works) · History (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Library science (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art history (3 works)