University Of Pennsylvania Museum Research Articles

Eastern religions come to western pennsylvania university museum and kipp gallery, indiana museum of pennsylvania

(2006). Eastern religions come to western pennsylvania university museum and kipp gallery, indiana museum of pennsylvania. Material Religion: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 394-396.

Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and its Social and Ritual Contexts

Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and its Social and Ritual Contexts. William A. Davenport. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2005. 231 pp.

Conservation: The Ram in the Thicket. An online exhibition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Conservation: The Ram in the Thicket. An online exhibition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Designing Human Evolution Exhibitions. Insights from Exhibitions and Audiences

This article examines the direction of contemporary human evolution exhibitions in museums. We begin the discussion by considering common preconceptions visitors often bring to human origins exhibits, such as the notion that evolution is oriented from simple toward complex organisms, and humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary story. With such challenges in mind, the article focuses on the novel techniques museums use to address current topics in human evolutionary studies. We consider human evolution exhibitions at the American Museum of Natural History,the Yale Peabody Museum, the San Diego Museum of Man and the British Natural History Museum, as well as developing exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. As these world-class museums illustrate, human evolution exhibitions today call upon innovative strategies to accommodate current evolutionary thinking (current theories, methodologies and the wealth of new evidence)as well as to create meaningful experiences for visitors.

Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner, Eds., Naomi F. Miller and Kamyar Abdi, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in association with the American Institute of Iranian Studies and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, ISBN 1-931745-05-6, xi + 340 pp.

<b>Yeki Bud, Yeki Nabud: Essays on the Archaeology of Iran in Honor of William M. Sumner</b>, Eds., Naomi F. Miller and Kamyar Abdi, Los Angeles: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology in association with the American Institute of Iranian Studies and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, ISBN 1-931745-05-6, xi + 340 pp.

Two Lyres from Ur. By Maude de Schauensee. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003. Pp. xix + 125 + 8 figs. + 51 pls. $29.95 (cloth).

<i>Two Lyres from Ur</i>. By Maude de Schauensee. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003. Pp. xix + 125 + 8 figs. + 51 pls. $29.95 (cloth).

Content Metadata–An Analysis of Etruscan Artifacts in a Museum of Archeology

SUMMARY Metadata schemes target resources as information-packages, without attention to the distinction between content and carrier. Most schema are derived without empirical understanding of the concepts that need to be represented, the ways in which terms representing the central concepts might best be derived, and how metadata descriptions will be used for retrieval. Research is required to resolve this dilemma, and much research will be required if the plethora of schemes that already exist are to be made efficacious for resource description and retrieval. A preliminary study was designed to see whether the bibliographic concept of “the work” could be of any relevance among artifacts held by a museum. The “works metaphor” is extended from the bibliographic to the artifactual domain by altering the terms of the definition slightly, thus: instantiation is understood as content genealogy. Case studies of Etruscan artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology are used to demonstrate the inherence of the work in non-documentary artifacts.

Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Jennifer Quick

<i>Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology</i>. Jennifer Quick

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur: A Traveling Exhibition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur: A Traveling Exhibition of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Magnificent objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Magnificent objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

UPM MIS: museum information system at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

UPM MIS: museum information system at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Marsa Matruh I. The Excavation and Marsa Matruh II. The Objects. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Excavations on Bates's Island, Marsa Matruh, Egypt, 1985-1989

Marsa Matruh I. The Excavation and Marsa Matruh II. The Objects. The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology's Excavations on Bates's Island, Marsa Matruh, Egypt, 1985-1989

Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology:dventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Adventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology:dventures in Photography: Expeditions of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology:Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology:Guide to the Mesoamerican Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

“Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.” Kyle M. Phillips Jr. Etruscan Gallery and Symposium (“The Etruscans Revealed”) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2003

“Worlds Intertwined: Etruscans, Greeks and Romans.” Kyle M. Phillips Jr. Etruscan Gallery and Symposium (“The Etruscans Revealed”) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2003

Harriet Martin, Francesco Pomponio, Giuseppe Visicato, and Aage Westenholz. The Fara Tablets in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Harriet Martin, Francesco Pomponio, Giuseppe Visicato, and Aage Westenholz. <i>The Fara Tablets in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology</i>.

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete. Volume 1: Catalogue of Pottery from the Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlement of Vrokastro in the Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete

Reports on the Vrokastro Area, Eastern Crete. Volume 1: Catalogue of Pottery from the Bronze and Early Iron Age Settlement of Vrokastro in the Collections of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology and the Archaeological Museum, Herakleion, Crete

Clovis Blade Technology; Clovis Revisited: New Perspectives on Paleoindian Adaptations from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico; Folsom Lithic Technology: Explorations in Structure and Variation

Clovis Blade Technology. Michael B. Collins. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999. 234 pp.Clovis Revisited: New Perspectives on Paleoindian Adaptations from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico. Anthony T. Boldurian and John L. Cotter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1999. 145 pp.Folsom Lithic Technology: Explorations in Structure and Variation. Daniel S. Amick. ed. Ann Arbor: International Monographs in Prehistory, 1999.213 pp.

The Native Collector

Louis Situwuka Shotridge ( c1882-1937), a high-born Tlingit from Kluckwan, Alaska, collected Northwest Coast Native artifacts for the University of Pennsylvania Museum at Philadelphia for a period of 17 years. As proxy for both Nativeness and white cultural institutions, Shotridge enacted performances which were variously commensurable with, and `othered' from, each other. Compelled to mimic a subjectivity located within an imaginary semiotic of Ancient Tradition, Shotridge's performances of Nativeness benefited the Museum's epistemological authorities, at the same time as they facilitated their success in the anthropological trade. And yet Shotridge also succeeded in arrogating to himself - through the roles of collector, assistant curator and field ethnographer - cultural capital which approximated that of elite Anglo-Americans. Through an analysis of his letters, field notes, selected newspaper accounts and other biographical information, this paper explores the conflicting and collusive relations involved in Shotridge's role of `Native collector'.