The Folklore and Ethnology Working Group

As noted here on the Museum Anthropology weblog, the latest issue of Museum Anthropology has now been published and is available online (for AAA members and institutional subscribers). Thanks go to everyone who made it possible.

Find a brief wrap up comment on the IU Symposium on Dress and Adornment here. Thanks to everyone who made a great event possible.

We are very pleased that the next issue of Museum Anthropology Review (volume 2, number 1) has just been published. Find it here. The issue contains some fine reviews as well as two peer-reviewed articles. These articles are the first peer-reviewed works to appear in the journal. Find more information on the new issue here.

The full schedule for the upcoming Indiana University Symposium on Dress and Adornment is now available online here. The conference will be held on the IU Campus on April 18 and 19, 2008.  Please come enjoy this rich set of presentations.

I am very pleased to announce the official launch of Museum Anthropology Review as a part of IUScholarWorks Journals. In its new home with its new publisher–the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries–MAR will be using Open Journal Systems software, the leading software tool for the complete publication of open access scholarly journals. Read all about it on the MAR WordPress site and find the press release at IU Media Relations here. See the journal itself here. Please consider registering with the journal. Its free, it brings benefits to you, and it helps us demonstrate that the journal has a large and growing user base.