Eric Gable

Ideas and images : developing interpretive history exhibits

Ideas and Images presents eleven case studies, walking you through the process of developing interpretive history exhibits. Learn how to identify and build new audiences, work with consultants and experts, cope with institutional change, present temporary and permanent exhibitions, and experiment with new subjects, design techniques and media.

Ethnography at its edges: Introduction to new AE book review essay series

“Ethnography at Its Edges,” a new feature in American Ethnologist, presents review essays that explore the relationship between the use of ethnographic techniques in disciplines other than anthropology and contemporary trends within the discipline. The first two essays look at how anthropology overlaps with and differs from journalism and fiction.

Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair

Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair. Leslie Prosterman. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. xi + 220 pp. b/w photographs, notes, index.

Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair:Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair.

24.95 (paper).

on the uses of relativism: fact, conjecture, and black and white histories at Colonial Williamsburg

Ordinary Life, Festival Days: Aesthetics in the Midwestern County Fair. Leslie Prosterman. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. xi + 220 pp. b/w photographs, notes, index.

The Culture Development Club: Youth, Neo-Tradition, and the Construction of Society in Guinea-Bissau

24.95 (paper).