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New Publication: “Function and Form: the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective Between Art and Anthropology” in Collaborative Anthropology Today
January 14, 2021
The Ethnographic Termialia Collective (Trudi Lynn Smith, Kate Hennessy, Craig Campbell, Fiona P. McDonald and Stephanie Takaragawa) has published a chapter “Function and Form: the Ethnographic Terminalia Collective Between Art and Anthropology” in this exciting new book edited by Dominic Boyer and George E. Marcus. Collaborative Anthropology Today A Collection of Exceptions EDITED BY DOMINIC […]

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Workshop and Publication: The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay!
November 24, 2016
The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective, supported by MCL members Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepulvéda (editing and graphic design layout), Dr. Hannah Turner (archival management), Reese Muntean (photography), Aynur Kadir (videography), and Rachel Ward, hosted the workshop ‘The Photo-Essay is Dead, Long Live the Photo-Essay!‘ at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association in Minneapolis (Nov. 17th […]

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Workshop CFP: “The Photo-Essay is Dead! Long Live the Photo-Essay!”
August 3, 2016
The Ethnographic Terminalia Collective invites submissions by photo-essayists working within an anthropological idiom to present their photo-essays at a full-day workshop at the 2016 AAA Meetings in Minneapolis. The full-day workshop is designed for creative and engaged participation from both participants and presenters. It is structured around three sessions each of which features the presentation […]

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Monique Scott discusses Ethnographic Terminalia 2013: Exhibition as Residency
July 27, 2016
The journal Visual Anthropology Review recently published a “VAR Supplement” video to accompany Monique Scott’s review, “White Walls, ‘Black City’: Reflections on “Exhibition as Residency—Art, Anthropology, Collaboration”. It “discusses efforts to resuscitate the image of the anthropology exhibitions for contemporary audiences. Her review specifically considers the exhibition organized by Ethnographic Terminalia at the Arts Incubator […]

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2015 Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology awarded to Ethnographic Terminalia
November 20, 2015
The Ethnographic Terminalia collective has been awarded the American Anthropological Association Council for Museum Anthropology’s 2015 Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology. “The CMA Michael M. Ames Prize for Innovative Museum Anthropology is awarded to individuals for innovative work in museum anthropology. Evaluation Criteria: 1) Creativity: Is the project a unique and creative exploration of […]

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Ethnographic Terminalia 2015 program in Vancouver
July 30, 2015
The Ethnographic Terminalia collective has announced our ISEA 2015 program of exhibition collaborations, panel discussion, and workshop. We are really excited to be working with the grunt gallery and Geronimo Inutiq’s ARCTIC NOISE project.

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The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera
November 25, 2014
The 2014 Ethnographic Terminalia exhibition “The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera” has opened at Hierarchy Gallery, in Washington D.C. Details can be found on the ETC website. The Bureau of Memories: Archives and Ephemera is a thematic reflection on the archive and its discontents. Washington’s identity as the seat of American political power is amplified […]

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Active Pass to IR9 (2008)
August 4, 2013
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Ethnographic Terminalia 2012: Audible Observatories
November 16, 2012
The Ethnographic Terminalia Curatorial Collective is pleased to be opening our fourth annual exhibition of works at the intersection of anthropological and contemporary art practice. Audible Observatories is taking place in San Francisco in conjunction with the meetings of the American Anthropological Association, from Nov. 14-19. It includes installations at SOMArts, Alley Cat Gallery, and […]

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Ethnographic Terminalia 2012: Audible Observatories
June 7, 2012
The Ethnographic Terminalia curatorial collective is now seeking submissions for our fourth exhibition to be held in San Francisco this coming November. Following our exhibits in Montreal, New Orleans, and Philadelphia, we are excited this year to bring together works featuring sound in a distributed, urban, location-specific presentation. The official Call for Submissions: Ethnographic Terminalia seeks […]

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