Bamana Identity, State Formation, and the Sources of Bamana Art

Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali. Museum for African Art, New York. September 19, 2001—March 2, 2002.
Bamana: The Art of Existence in Mali. Jean-Paul Colleyn. ed. New York: Museum for African Art, in association with Museum Rietberg and Snoek-Ducaju and Zoon, 2001. 263 pp.     

Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture

Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture. The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 15, 1998-January 16, 1999; The Jewish Museum, New York, New York, April 18-September 9. 1999, review venue; Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria. October 21, 1999-February 6. 2000; Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles. California. April 4-July 25, 2000.
Freud: Conflict and Culture. Essays on His Life, Work and Legacy. Michael S. Roth. ed. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1998. 273 pp.     

Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market

Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market Grace Hudson Museum and Sun House, Ukiah, California, May through September 1998; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 1998 through January 1999; National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center, New York, May 9through August 15, 1999 (review venue); University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, October 1999 through September 2000.
Pomo Indian Basket Weavers. Their Baskets and the Art Market. Special issue of Expedition, The Magazine of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 40(1), 1998.     

Body Art

Body Art: Marks of Identity. American Museum of Natural History, New York, November 20, 1999–May 29, 2000.     

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles

Gifts of Pride and Love: The Cultural Significance of Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, Bristol, RI, 1998; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, OK, December 4, 1999-February 2000; Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ, April 20-July 16, 2001; Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, August 27, 2000-January 16, 2001; National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, Gustav Heye Center, New York, NY, March-May 2001; Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK, June-September 2001; Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Ledyard, CT, October 2001-January 2002.
Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Cradles. Barbara A. Hail. ed. Bristol, RI: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, 2000. 135 pp.     

Hip-Hop: The Culture, the Sound, the Science; One Planet under a Groove: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art

Hip-Hop: The Culture, the Sound, the Science. The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. January 18–May 27, 2002.
One Planet under. Groove: Hip-Hop and Contemporary Art. The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. October 26, 2001—March 3, 2002; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, July 14–October 13, 2002; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, Spring 2003.     

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994.

The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994. Organized by the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. Curator: Okwui Enwezor. P.S. Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art affiliate, Long Island City, Queens, New York City. February 10-May 5, 2002.     

El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles

El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo José Vergara. National Building Museum, Washington, D.C., December 3, 1998-March 19, 1999; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York City, June 25-September 5, 1999; Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, January 29–July 16, 2000 (review venue); Graham Foundation, Chicago, November 15,2000–January 25,2001.
ElNuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles. Photographs by Camilo José Vergara. Gustavo Leclerc. Michael J. Dear. and J. Dallas Dishman. eds. Los Angeles: Southern California Studies Center, 2000.48 pp.     

Drawing Shadows to Stone

Drawing Shadows to Stone: Photographing North Pacific Peoples (1897-1902). American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, November 14, 1997- March 1, 1998.
Drawing Shadows to Stone: The Photography of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902. Laurel Kendall. Barbara Mathé. and Thomas Ross Miller. with Stanley A. Freed. Ruth S. Freed. and Laila Williamson. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1997, and Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 112 pp., 97 illust.     

Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century.

Celebrating Ethnicity and Nation: American Festive Culture from the Revolution to the Early 20th Century. Jurgen Heideking. Genevieve Fabre. and Kai Dreisbach. eds. New York: Berghahn Books, 2001. 316 pp.     

Notes

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Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies: American Renaissance: Our Life at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. 400 pages. $19.95 hardback.

Richard Grenier: Capturing the Culture: Film, Art, and Politics. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991. 392 pages. $24.95 hardback.

Thomas P. Hughes: American Genesis: A Century of Innovation and Technological Enthusiasm. New York: Viking Penguin, 1990. 529 pages. $10.95 paperback.

Anson Rabinbach: The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity. New York: Basic Books, 1990. 402 pages. $34.95 hardback.

Jeremy Rifkin: Time Wars.: New York: Touchstone Books, Simon &; Schuster, 1989. 302 pp. $9.95 paperback.     

Planet of the Normates

Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 200 pp.
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 400 pp.
Monster Theory: Reading Culture. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. ed. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.315pp.     

Constructing Cultures Then and Now

Constructing Cultures Then and Now:. Centenary Conference Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition 1897-1997. American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, November 13-17 1997.     

Earth,Air, Fire,and Water: Elements of Art

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Shoshana Zuboff. In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power. New York: Basic Books, 1988, 468 pp. $11.95 paperback.

George Gilder. Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology. New York: Simon &; Schuster, 1989. 426 pp. $19.95 hardcover.

Loren Baritz. The Good Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988. 361 pp. $19.95 hardcover.

Miles Orville. The Real Thing: Imitation and Authority in American Culture, 1880–1940. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. 382 pp. $14.95 paperback.

Peter Shaw. The War Against the Intellect. Iowa City: The University of Iowa Press, 1989. 181 pp. $10.95 paperback.

Robert Alter. The Pleasures of Reading in an Ideological Age. New York: Simon &; Schuster, 1989. 250 pp. $18.95 hardcover.

Ian Crofton. A Dictionary of Art Quotations. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1989. $19.95 hardcover.     

Native America Collected: The Culture of an Art World.

Native America Collected: The Culture of an Art World. Margaret Dubin. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2001. 224 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Religious Consciousness. By G. S. Ghuyre The World of the First Australians. By R. M. and C. H. Berndt Elkin, A. P. (1964): The Australian Aborigines and How to Understand Them. Angus & Robertson The Basis of Human Evolution. By Bertram S. Kraus. Harper and Row The Jaguar's Children: Pre-Classic Central Mexico. By Michael D. Coe Masterpieces in the Museum of Primitive Art. Published by the Museum of Primitive Art The Paths of Culture: A General Ethnology. By Kay Birket-Smith Senufo Sculpture from West Africa. By Robert Goldwater The John and Dominique de Memil Collection. The Art Forms of Polynesia. By Archey Gilbert Profiles in Ethnology: A Revision of a Profile of Primitive Culture. By Elman R. Service     

Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times

Elusive Culture: Schooling, Race, and Identity in Global Times. Daniel A. Yon. New York: State University of New York Press, 2000. 175 pp.     

Darwin��s Busts and Public Evolutionary Outreach and Education

For the 1909 Darwin Centennial, the New York Academy of Sciences gave a large bronze bust of Charles Darwin to the American Museum of Natural History. Created by the well-known sculptor, William Couper, the bust was placed on its tall granite pedestal at the entrance at the newly designated exhibition hall, the Charles Darwin Hall of Invertebrate Zoology. Later that year, the American Museum ordered a bronze copy of the bust and presented it to Christ’s College, in Cambridge, England at the British Darwinian celebration. In 1935, Victor Von Hagen requested a plaster copy of the bust for a monument he was erecting on San Cristóbal in the Galapagos Islands to celebrate Darwin’s arrival in the Galapagos. During 1960, the American Museum of Natural History returned the original bronze bust to the New York Academy of Science, where it is now on display at its headquarters in New York City. To celebrate the Darwin bicentennial, the National Academy of Sciences recreated the bust in a computer-generated copy for display at their Washington, DC headquarters.     

Water,Water, Everywhere

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Math and Science Across Culture: Activities and Investigations from the Exploratorium. Maurice Bazin, Modesto, and the Exploratorium Teacher Institute. New York: The New Press, 2002. 176 pp. $19.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-56584-541-2

History Beneath the Sea—Nautical Archaeology in the Classroom. K. C. Smith and Amy Douglass (Editors). Washington, D.C.: Society for American Archaeology, 2001. 28 pp. $5.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-932839-17-7.