Members of the Advisory Board
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ANTHONY SHELTON Director of the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Regional expertise: North and Middle America Special areas of interest/research: ethnography of Mexico, theoretical foundations of anthropology, critical museology |
| Anthony Shelton is Director of the Museum of Anthropology at the
Universiy of British Columbia, Vancouver and Professor of Anthropology
and Adjunct Professor of Art History, Visual Culture and Theory at the
University of British Columbia. Previously he was Head of Collections,
Research and Development at the Horniman Museum in London. His research
interests range from theoretical foundations of anthropology to the
incorporation of Latin American Art into Western collections. His active
research includes work on the development and institutionalisation of
visual cultures in 19th and 20th century Yucatan. Selected publications Shelton, Anthony, „The Collector’s Zeal: Towards an Anthropology of Intentionality, Instrumentality & Desire”, in: P. ter Keurs (ed.), Colonial Collections Revisited, Leiden 2007, pp. 16-44. Shelton, Anthony, “Museums and Anthropologies. Practices and Narratives” in: S. Macdonald (ed.), A Companion to Museum Studies, Oxford 2006, pp. 64-80. Shelton, Anthony, “Museums in an Age of Cultural Hybridity”, in: Folk. Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society 43 (2001), pp. 221-49. |
