[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Teaching Material Culture

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From: Ellen Garvey [mailto:ellengarvey at earthlink.net]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF TRANSFORMATIONS
Teaching Material Culture
Deadline Extended: 30 April 2007

The editors of Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and
Pedagogy  seek articles (5,000 - 10,000 words) and media reviews (books,
film, video, performance, art, music, etc. - 3,000 to 5,000 words) that
explore the significance and uses of material culture in a
variety of contexts, pedagogical-from the classroom to the museum-and
disciplinary-literature, women's and gender studies, anthropology,
folklore, history, psychology, sociology, art, photography,
geography, religion, working-class studies, ethnic studies, cultural
studies, science, and others. Essays should raise questions concerning,
for example, authenticity, art, craft, tradition, community, or
authority in relationship to the teaching of material culture
Multidisciplinary approaches that focus on-or include-discussions
of non-Western cultures are especially encouraged. Autobiographical
criticism, narrative scholarship, photo-essays, and experimental work
are welcome.

Topics might include: teaching material culture in K-12 and higher
education; museums and the appropriation and transformation of material
culture; gender and technology; the politics and pedagogy of the
archive; material culture and folklore; artifacts and identities;
material culture and family/domesticity; food
rituals/celebrations; the transmission of material culture in diasporic
communities; history and interpretation of public spaces;
intersections and manifestations of identities; clothes, costumes,
fashion, and body politics; religious practices; music and performance;
practices and politics of memorializing; the material construction of
public events; make-overs and reality television; class and
taste; globalization, tourism, and transnationalism.

Send a hard copy in MLA format (6th ed.) and a 250-word abstract to:
Jacqueline Ellis and Edvige Giunta, Editors, Transformations, New Jersey
City University, Hepburn Hall Room 309, 2039 Kennedy
Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07305 OR email submissions and inquiries to:
<mailto:transformations at njcu.edu>transformations at njcu.edu. Email
submissions should be sent as attachments in MS Word or Rich Text
format. For submission guidelines go to
<http://www.njcu.edu/assoc/transformations>www.njcu.edu/assoc/transforma
tions.

Ellen Garvey
ellengarvey at earthlink.net