Dear Lisa and Les
Good idea to put this on the MEG agenda and try to take it forward
through the MEG website.
I have very long (but not comprehensive) bibliographies for the areas I
have worked on (Amazon and Central Africa) but no summary of top-10
illustrated books or anything like that. I also have me reading lists
from my MA course at UEA...in compiling a list I would begin by
obtaining bibliographies from other MA/MPhil courses. UEA seems to be
the most visually-orientated.
Tabitha
On 8 Jun 2006, at 08:54, Lisa Harris wrote:
> hi les
> don't know if anyone's replied to you yet but you're absolutely right
> this is
> something that would be extremely useful and something i think
> everyone finds
> extremley difficult to pin down.
> i remember janet starkey putting together quite a comprehensive list
> when she
> was doing the material culture course in the course booklets but this
> was
> weighted somewhat to museum studies.
> when i was doing the nems/nemlac project i tried to pull something
> along the
> lines you're talking about together for one of the seminars i did but
> managed
> only to get around 8-10 per section (ie. geographical area).
> the best thing might be for someone to trawl the RAI and BM (Centre for
> Anthropology) libraries and complie a list that way - it might make a
> good
> student project!
>
> i'm not sure apart from people suggesting books they use that this
> list is the
> best way to get this going but the museum ethnographers group might be
> a
> better place. especially now as we have the new web site with a
> directory of
> members who can upload their personal details including areas of
> specialism
> for other MEG members to browse and use as a contact database to find
> people who are interested in/researching the same things.
>
> if you like i'll try and add it to a MEG agenda soon.
> lisa
>
>
> On 1 Jun 2006, at 11:08, leslie jessop wrote:
>
>> From October, I will be teaching a course on Material Culture to
>> final-year Anthropology undergraduates at Durham University. I
>> thought it would be a good idea to pull together a list of key
>> references to material culture so that any student who is interested
>> in, say Melanesian arrows, could be
> pointed in the right direction (which in this case would include
> references to melanesia AND to arrows).
>>
>> My next thought was to wonder if anybody has done this already. Is
>> there a published bibliography, on-line resourse, or even a set of
>> xeroxed typed notes out there? If not, is it something that we, as a
>> discussion group, should be working on?
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Les Jessop
>
>
>
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