Cultural Sustainability

This question keeps knocking around in my head, and I would like to start a conversation–not just a flurry of posts–about it. This conversation is part of what draws me to the Goucher program. Most of what I have learned about cultural sustainability as a whole, I have learned my colleagues in the program, especially [...]

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Over and over I hear it, and over and over again it surprises me. I hear colleagues at the Smithsonian and elsewhere say, “I am a museum anthropologist: I study collections.” I am surprised because for me, being a museum anthropologist means I make exhibits so visitors can learn about other communities and cultures, times and places. [...]

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Community is one of the great mysteries of human experience. In what ways are we or are we not connected with other people, and other being, animate and inanimate? The notion  of communitas proposes that a sense of fellowship is primary to human beings, that through the gifts of presence, resonance, and sharing, we can [...]

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