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Now Published: Living in Heritage: Tulou as Vernacular Architecture, Global...

September 19, 2024, 5:00 am

Good news is scarce in my world right now, but I am really very pleased to share that Lijun Zhang’s latest book Living in Heritage: Tulou as Vernacular Architecture, Global Asset, and Tourist...

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Longjia [Miao] Village

March 24, 2024, 11:15 am

[Suojia (a.k.a. Suoga) [Longhorn] Miao Eco-Museum], Longjia [Miao] Village, Suoga Miao, Yi, and Hui Ethnic Township, Liuzhi Special District, Liupanshui [Prefecture-Level] City, Guizhou, China....

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Workshop: Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest China

May 14, 2023, 6:35 am

I am happy to be hosting a group of colleagues in Bloomington this week for a long-delayed (COVID…) writing workshop on “Textile Arts and Heritage Practices in Southwest China.” This grows out of the...

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Article: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies: An...

February 7, 2023, 5:05 pm

I am very pleased to share news of a new publication. It is an article appearing now in the Journal of American Folklore: Jackson, Jason Baird. “Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage...

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Article: “A Survey of Contemporary Bai Craft Practices in the Dali Bai...

November 13, 2022, 3:18 pm

I am very happy to note a new co-authored article titled “A Survey of Contemporary Bai Craft Practices in the Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan, China.” It was jointly written with Wuerxiya...

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Article: “Basketry among Two Peoples of Northern Guangxi, China” in Asian...

November 13, 2022, 2:53 pm

I am very happy to note the publication of “Basketry among Two Peoples of Northern Guangxi, China” in the latest double issue of Asian Ethnology. This article is one that I co-wrote with my friends...

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3-2-1 Launch! Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory

September 29, 2020, 7:23 pm

The pandemic slows all work beyond bare necessity, but good things can happen amid the difficulties of the present. Over the summer, with a small but mighty crew and some generous grants-in-hand, I...

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“Innovation, Habitus, and Heritage”: A New Paper Out Now in JFR

March 14, 2020, 12:50 pm

Hi all. I am happy to note that a new paper, co-authored with Johannes Müske and Lijun Zhang, has just been published in the Journal of Folklore Research. I will try to find ways to share a version of...

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Material Culture and Heritage Studies in Northern Guangxi, China at #AFSAM19

February 20, 2020, 10:10 am

I am here using a blog post not to share current news, but to get an older document online and linkable. What follows is the short (public) and long (unseen, for peer-review) abstracts from the panel...

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Material Culture Studies among the Baiku Yao of China’s Guangxi Zhuang...

February 20, 2020, 5:44 am

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#AFSAM19: Material Culture and Heritage Studies in Northern Guangxi, China

October 26, 2019, 7:32 am

A title slide showing key project sites in the Dong areas of Guangxi and Guizhou. Shreds and Patches has been quieter than usual as I work my way through a really complicated semester. In the midst of...

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A Cooperative Craft Survey in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Part 1

July 29, 2019, 12:57 pm

A note on photographs. Here just a few photographs from the first day of our May 2019 travel in Yunnan are presented. It will take time to work through all of the images that were made during the...

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2019 Summer Folklore Institute: Building Capacity for Safeguarding Intangible...

July 22, 2019, 3:54 pm

I have just returned from a second summer trip to China. This time I was part of an American delegation to one of the summer institutes jointly organized by the China Folklore Society and the American...

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The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage:...

July 3, 2019, 2:30 pm

The following is a report on The Seventh Forum on China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Collaborative Work in Museum Folklore and Heritage Studies (第七届中美民俗学与非物质文化遗产论坛: 博物馆民俗与遗产研究的协作工作)....

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Make Time to Watch “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song and the Story...

November 30, 2018, 7:35 am

Don’t miss the recent documentary film “The Flight of the Condor: A Letter, a Song, and the Story of Intangible Cultural Heritage”. by Áslaug Einarsdóttir and Valdimar Tr. Hafstein. If you watch the...

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The University of Tartu, Appreciated

October 17, 2018, 7:45 am

#fulbrightspecialist #fulbright #exchangeourworld I recently spent an extended time in Tartu, Estonia. I had the wonderful opportunity to be a Fulbright Specialist visiting the Departments of: (1)...

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Fieldwork: Highlights from the Textile Group

March 17, 2018, 7:03 pm

This post in the recent series on December 2017 research and travel in Guangxi, China was written by Carrie Hertz, who also provided the photographs. In this post, I complement Jason’s series of field...

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The Temple of Heaven |天壇 (12/8)

January 3, 2018, 11:20 am

This briefer note is the second on our recent trip to China. The context for this travel will come (I hope) a few posts down the road. For now, perhaps you can just go with it. For the first post in...

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Who Cares About Craft as Traditional Knowledge?

September 26, 2016, 8:30 pm

This fall has been a particularly busy season for research-based programs at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. An an outgrowth of our Indiana Folk Arts: 200 Years of Tradition and Innovation...

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Value, Ownership, and Cultural Goods: Regina F. Bendix to Deliver 2016...

January 23, 2016, 9:13 am

This is the season’s big lecture. With many heritage studies projects underway, it is a perfect time to welcome Regina back to Bloomington. Here are the details: 2016 Richard M. Dorson Memorial...

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