New worlds are forming and becoming visible in the 21st century--just as they have throughout history. The anthropologists at UC Santa Cruz have each chosen a charismatic object, encountered and salvaged during our research, to exhibit as material memory nodes. Through them we tell stories about confluences and concatenations among the worlds that are emerging.

Featuring objects from:
Mark Anderson // Chelsea Blackmore
Donald Brenneis // Melissa Caldwell
Nancy Chen // Shelly Errington
Mayanthi Fernando // Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Judith Habicht Mauche // Susan Harding
Andrew Mathews // J. Cameron Monroe
Megan Moodie // Annapurna Pandey
Triloki Pandey // Renya Ramirez 
Lisa Rofel // Danilyn Rutherford
Anna Tsing // Matthew Wolf-Meyer

"Field Studies: Anthropologists Encounter Objects."
Exhibit runs August 11 to November 25, 2012
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History
705 Front Street, Santa Cruz
Museum hours: Tuesdays - Sundays, 11am - 5pm
Photo above/right Copyright Andrew G. Baker, 2010