Anthropology in the Museum

Abstract

This is a graduate seminar that meets once a week for two hours. In addition to grad students from Anthropology, there are usually students from Museum Studies and sometimes from Museum Education. Classwork with these objects is designed to prepare students to successfully carry out an assignment using real museum collections. The assignment included here is a semester long research project on various aspects of a historical accession in the Dept. of Anthropology’s collections. The assignment results in a valued product as well as serving as a useful learning process.