- Shelly Errington
Shelly Errington is a
cultural anthropologist specializing in the studies of plastic andnarrative art s, focusing ondocumentary film ,photography ,arts , andmulti-media . She is a professor ofAnthropology at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz .Errington received an M.A. from
Newcomb College ,Tulane University and an M.A andPh.D atCornell University . In 1981, she was the recipient of one of the first MacArthur Foundation "genius grants".Errington has done field work in
Papua New Guinea ,Indonesia andMexico . Her current courses include a study of Multi-Media Ethnography. She is currently working on a documentary film on the art of thePátzcuaro region of Mexico, and an accompanying book on the subject.elected bibliography
*"The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress". Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
*"Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia" (edited with J. Atkinson). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.
*"Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm". Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.
*"The Cosmic Theme Park of the Javanese" "Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Arts", published in Sydney, Australia, July 1997.
*"Myth and Structure in Disney World." In "Meaning in the Visual Arts: Views From the Outside". Edited by Irving Lavin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
*"What Became Primitive art?" "Cultural Anthropology" 9 (2) : 201-226, 1994.
*"Making Progress on Borobudur: A New Perspective." "Visual Anthropology Review" 9 (2): 32-59, Fall 1993.
*"Progressivist Stories and the Pre-Columbian Past: Notes on Mexico and the United States." In "Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past", pp. 209-49. Edited by Elizabeth Boone. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1993.
*"Some Comments on Style in the Meaning of the Past," "Journal of Asian Studies", 38:2, 231-244, 1979.
*"The Cosmic House of the Buginese," "Asia", 1:5, 8-14, 1979.References
* [http://anthro.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=24 Shelly Errington's page at the University of California, Santa Cruz]
External links
* [http://ic.ucsc.edu/~sherring/mediaethno/ Sherry Errington's personal page at the University of California, Santa Cruz]
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