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Shelly Errington Home  Directory Shelly Errington
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Title: |
Professor of Anthropology |
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Email: |
sherring@ucsc.edu |
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Phone: |
(831) 459-4667 Office
(831) 212-4951 Message |
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Social Sciences 1, 407 |
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| Education History | |
B.A., Newcomb College, Tulane University
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University |
| Courses Taught | |
ANTH 120 - Culture Through Film
ANTH 120L - Culture Through Film Lab
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| Research Focus | |
Teaching Specialties: visual culture (documentary film, photography, multimedia); visual semiotics
Area of Research: the globalization of images and arts; media and documentary discourses in the context of power; arts and their markets; the construction of national imaginaries and narratives in public spaces
Area of Fieldwork: eclectic, including Latin America (Mexico), Southeast Asia (Indonesia) |
| Long Description | |
Shelly Errington’s current work focuses on documentary film, photography, arts, and multi-media, and non-linear ethnography. She created a course called Multi-Media Ethnography, taught in 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2008; its website and student projects can be found at
http://ic.ucsc.edu/~sherring/mediaethno,
http://ic.ucsc.edu/~sherring/mediaethno/S05,
http://ic.ucsc.edu/~sherring/mediaethno/S06,
and
http://ic.ucsc.edu/~sherring/mediaethno/W08 [under construction].
In 2005 she taught the second quarter of the graduate core course of U.C.S.C.’s new M.F.A. program in Digital Arts/New Media in the Arts Division and is on the Faculty of the program.
Currently she is working on a book manuscript on the effects of globablization on the production and marketing of artesanal objects. She is working on a documentary film on artesanal objects in the era of globalization from the Pátzcuaro region of Mexico.
She has done fieldwork Papua-New Guinea, Indonesia, and Mexico. |
| Selected Publications | |
(in press) “Artes Populares in the Era of Globalization: notes from Mexico” to appear in a volume on museums and their future, published by the International Museum Institute (IMI) [Instituto de Estudios Avanzados de Museos] and the Getty Museum (Los Angeles)
“Afterword: Globalizing Art History” in Is Art History Global?, edited by Jeremy Elkins. New York and London: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 404-440 (2007)
"In Memoriam, Clifford Geertz (1926-2006): An Appreciation." Indonesia, Vol. 83 (April 2007), pp. 189-199. (2007)
The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia (edited with J. Atkinson). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.
Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.
"Myth and Structure in Disney World." In Meaning in the Visual Arts: Views From the Outside. Edited by Irving Lavin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
"What Became Primitive art?" Cultural Anthropology 9 (2) : 201-226, 1994.
"Some Comments on Style in the Meaning of the Past," Journal of Asian Studies, 38:2, 231-244, 1979.
"The Cosmic House of the Buginese," Asia, 1:5, 8-14, 1979. |
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