Shelly Errington is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the studies of plastic and narrative arts, focusing on documentary film, photography, arts, and multi-media. Cultural anthropology is one of four fields of Anthropology (the holistic study of humanity) as it developed in the United States. Throughout history people have told stories with pictures Long ago people drew and painted stories on the walls of caves and tombs Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality Photography (fә'tɒgrәfi or fә'tɑːgrәfi (from Greek φωτο and γραφία is the process and Art of recording pictures by means of capturing The arts is a broad subdivision of Culture, composed of many expressive disciplines. Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. She is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Anthropology (/ˌænθɹəˈpɒlədʒi/ from Greek grc ἄνθρωπος anthrōpos, "human" -λογία -logia) is the study of
Errington received an M.A. from Newcomb College, Tulane University and an M. A Master of Arts ( Latin: Magister Artium) is a Postgraduate academic Master's degree awarded by universities in a large See also Tulane University H Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, or Newcomb College, was the coordinate women's college of Tulane University Tulane University is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana. A and Ph.D at Cornell University. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. In 1981, she was the recipient of one of the first MacArthur Foundation "genius grants". Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The MacArthur Fellows Program or MacArthur Fellowship (sometimes Nicknamed the "genius grant") is an award given by the John D
Errington has done field work in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Mexico. Papua New Guinea (or ˈpæpjuːə in Tok Pisin: Papua Niugini) officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania The Republic of Indonesia ( (Republik Indonesia is a Country in Southeast Asia. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Her current courses include a study of Multi-Media Ethnography. She is currently working on a documentary film on the art of the Pátzcuaro region of Mexico, and an accompanying book on the subject. Pátzcuaro, which means "city of stones" in the Purepecha language is a city and its surrounding municipality in the central part of the Mexican
Selected 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.
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