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Shelly Errington

Shelly Errington   
    Title:  Professor of Anthropology
    Email:  sherring@ucsc.edu
    Phone:  (831) 459-4667 Office
(831) 212-4951 Message
    Office:  Social Sciences 1, 407
    Office Hours:  W 1:30-3:00pm

Education History 
B.A., Newcomb College, Tulane University
M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University

Courses Taught 
ANTH 151 - Ethnography Workshop
ANTH 194V - Picturing Cultures

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.