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In 2 hours, I'm going to put on synagogue clothes & a theater mask, grab a noisemaker, & go hear the story of a young woman who risked everything to save her people. While I do, I'm going to think of American Jewish groups and all CEOs, uni presidents, and Dem leaders. Not in a complimentary way.

Thank you 🙂. From Boas to BKG, I’ll try my best standing on the shoulders of giants. Thankfully AFS has great current leaders and 136 years of tradition and experience.

Hope you make it to Tartu! Look up Washing Machine Made of Beetroot.

Glad you’re there. I hope you can make it to Tartu and the Estonian National Museum. Don’t miss Cafe Werner.

A cluster of articles arising from the work of the MCHSL + partners was just published in Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics. Up 4/4 is "Basketry Craft Practice in Southwest China: The Case of Defeng Village" by Lijun Zhang and myself. Special thanks to the great JEF team. (Also on Sciendo)

A cluster of articles arising from the work of the MCHSL+partners was just published in Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics. Up 3rd is "“I Will Stitch it Back and Pass it Down”: A Bai Elder Makes and Teaches Buzha" by Jon Kay. [The issue is now on Sciendo too] Special thanks to the great JEF team

Here is the 2/4 article in the group of papers that my colleagues just published in Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics (JEF). On OJS now. In Sciendo later. Special thanks to the great JEF team.

Out now in JEF's OJS instance. Sciendo later.

Morgensterns v2.0 Bloomington Ind.

Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory

Hello! This is the new Bluesky account for the Material Culture and Heritage Studies Laboratory at IU Bloomington. Find us on the web at mchslab.folklore.indiana.edu

[Link image shows a Dong townscape seen from across green rice fields.]

Is Limn Obsolete? - Limn The founding editors reflect on the journal’s origins

The founding editors of @limnpress.bsky.social conclude their short reflection on the history of the magazine w/ "Limn is dead; long live Limn."

Like the king's two bodies, a publication like Limn has both a material instantiation & a life beyond it. #PublishingMetaphysics

Government's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashed Cutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say.

Hello academia, you take note of what’s happening in Aotearoa / New Zealand right now?
Anthropology, indigenous studies, Māori studies, sociology, political science, public health, nursing etc all deemed without “a purpose”& funding cut.

#humanities
#highereducation

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[This title is AI generated:] The Risks Posed by LLM-Based AI Tools: A Call to Action for the American Folklore Society This is an essay (or “essay”) mainly authored by Copilot, the LLM-based AI tool provisioned to me by Indiana University. Spelling and typographic errors made by JBJ have been silently c…

Hi y’all. Here is another post from the run of fall reflections on the work of scholarly societies now (special focus on the American Folklore Society). (Includes AI generated text)

Just read the Nature letter and the longer article in Postdigital Science and Education on AI/LLMs and academic work. Very helpful and instructive.

Congratulations!

How to Study Folklore When You Cannot Go to Graduate School? My run of posts on scholarly societies in general, and my scholarly societies in particular, has, I know, been heavy on facing unhappy developments and low, so far, on positive prospects. Here is a…

Hi everyone! Here is a blog post from earlier this fall. Part of a series centered on the disciplinary futures (especially in folklore studies).

Thanks for sharing it! I had not seen it but I’ve been worrying about these issues with renewed intensity of late. With appreciation!

I believe it. I look
forward to reading the article. Thanks! (It relates to my interests in several ways including how SFI rearranged philanthropy (and volunteer work) in Santa Fe, impacting, for instance, the museums.

Thank you. Speaking of SFI, I did not expect to find it lurking in the yuck NYT story about Cormac McCarthy today. Fewer dots between your post and that story than one might guess. I appreciate what you shared on CAS and SFI.

5 best things about #AAA2024Tampa : (1) friends (2) the best weather of this Floridian’s life (3) the Seminole collections @ Tampa Bay History Center (4) new Limn team/issue (5) conference rooms w/ sunlight blue sky and water

I enjoyed organizing the strong poster session for #AFSAM11, but have never myself been a poster presenter. Today, Lijun Zhang and I are each presenting posters at #AAA2024Tampa. Thanks to the Council for Museum Anthropology for greenlighting us.

Hey friends at #AAA2024Tampa !! The book exhibit closes way earlier than usual. We are only open until Friday at 1pm (not Saturday at 4 as in earlier years). All books are $15 -- even better than our online sale discount.

Looking forward to Council for Museum Anthropology gatherings today at #AAA2024Tampa as well as a wonderful opportunity to be a part of "Anthropology in/of the World of Scholar-Led Publishing," a roundtable/town hall happening today at 12:45 pm in TCC 121.

After a thoroughly enjoyable @folkloresociety.bsky.social in-person conference in Albuquerque, we'd love to offer the folks meeting virtually this week access to our order form of of discounted books from 17 publishers! #afs2024

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2024 Council for Museum Anthropology Awards I happily share the following CMA announcement: 2024 COUNCIL FOR MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY AWARDS We’re delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Council for Museum Anthropology awards…

Happy to pass on news of the 2024 Awards of the Council for Museum Anthropology. #AAA24 #CMA Congratulations to all!

Limn is back! I know because I'm up to my eyeballs in the details of relaunching this fantastic publication. If you didn't know about Limn, you soon will (because you are following me & I'm going to post about it).

Please follow the Limn account (@limnpress.bsky.social) & spread the good news.

The strategy is already clear: overwhelm the opposition with so many terrible announcements that they can’t even… a DDOS attack against democracy.

Scholarly Societies and the Costs of Whac-A-Mole “Whack a Mole” by Kathleen Moore via Flickr CC-BY-NC 2.0 Unbury the Lede: Here I reflect on the ways that the crises of the current moment make the older Whac-A-Mole problem something m…

Here is the third in my first run of scholarly society-minded blog posts from October...