Shelly E. Errington is a
cultural anthropologist specializing in the studies of plastic art and
narrative arts, focusing on
documentary film,
photography,
arts, and
multi-media. She is a Professor Emerita of
Anthropology at the
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Life
Errington received a
B.A. in 1966 from
Newcomb College
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, or Newcomb College, was the coordinate women's college of Tulane University located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was founded by Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1886 in memory of her dau ...
in
New Orleans, Louisiana and an M.A and
Ph.D. at
Cornell University. In 1981, she was the recipient of one of the first
MacArthur Foundation "genius grants".
Errington has done field work in
Papua New Guinea,
Indonesia and
Mexico. Her current courses include a study of Multi-Media Ethnography. She is currently working on a documentary film on the art of the
Pátzcuaro region of Mexico, and an accompanying book on the subject.
On September 24, 2009, she spoke at a rally protesting cuts to California University education.
Selected bibliography
*''The Death of Authentic Primitive Art and Other Tales of Progress''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.
*''Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia'' (edited with J. Atkinson). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.
*''Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm''. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989.
*"The Cosmic Theme Park of the Javanese" ''Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Arts'', published in Sydney, Australia, July 1997.
*"Myth and Structure in Disney World." In ''Meaning in the Visual Arts: Views From the Outside''. Edited by Irving Lavin. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
*"What Became Primitive art?" ''Cultural Anthropology'' 9 (2) : 201-226, 1994.
*"Making Progress on Borobudur: A New Perspective." ''Visual Anthropology Review'' 9 (2): 32-59, Fall 1993.
*"Progressivist Stories and the Pre-Columbian Past: Notes on Mexico and the United States." In ''Collecting the Pre-Columbian Past'', pp. 209–49. Edited by Elizabeth Boone. Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1993.
*"Some Comments on Style in the Meaning of the Past," ''Journal of Asian Studies'', 38:2, 231-244, 1979.
*"The Cosmic House of the Buginese," ''Asia'', 1:5, 8-14, 1979.
References
External links
Shelly Errington's personal page at the University of California, Santa Cruz
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American anthropologists
American women anthropologists
Tulane University alumni
Cornell University alumni
1944 births
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
21st-century American women