Museum AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-11-30Epub Date: 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1111/muan.70023
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius, Jon Johansson
{"title":"The Arctic—While the Ice is Melting: On Driftwood and Other Transnational Exhibition Stories","authors":"Lotten Gustafsson Reinius, Jon Johansson","doi":"10.1111/muan.70023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The exhibition <i>The Arctic—While the Ice is Melting</i> opened at the Nordic Museum in Stockholm in 2019 and is still on show, describing life in a changing climate and allowing its visitors to encounter several voices and perspectives of the past, present, and future. The three-year preparation for the exhibition involved collaboration between the Nordic Museum and Stockholm University. The museum was able to present transnational narratives with the help of collections spanning larger areas than just the nation-states of the Arctic region, by discussing the use of natural resources, such as driftwood, but also imported goods brought to different places in the Arctic as a result of colonial processes. The exhibition raises awareness of climate change by showing historical daily life in the Arctic in dialogue with contemporary stories from climate scientists and people living in the Arctic today. The subject of climate change transcends individual countries and groups and is showcased with the help of museum collections and contemporary stories in a multitemporal and multidisciplinary weaving of differing knowledges and voices.</p>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/muan.70023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145625653","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Museum AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-11-30Epub Date: 2025-10-24DOI: 10.1111/muan.70025
Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman
{"title":"The NAGPRA Decision-Making Process and Praxis: A Case Study of the New Mexico State University Museum","authors":"Fumi Arakawa, Stanley Berryman","doi":"10.1111/muan.70025","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examined the decision-making process and practice of a small academic museum as it strived to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Using the New Mexico State University Museum as a case study, it explores key questions related to NAGPRA compliance: How did the NMSU Museum determine that there was insufficient information to identify the specific area from which ancestors (ancestral remains) and belongings (associated funerary objects) originated? How did the museum staff and representatives of federally recognized tribes collaborate to identify a location for reinterment? What insights does this case study offer to help other small museums navigate the NAGPRA consultation and repatriation process? The article concluded with recommendations to assist other small museums in fulfilling their NAGPRA obligations, making this case study a valuable resource for institutions still working toward compliance.</p>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/muan.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145625971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Museum AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-11-30Epub Date: 2025-09-09DOI: 10.1111/muan.70017
Karina Lukin
{"title":"Phonographic Recordings in Finno-Ugric Languages in Finnish Archives","authors":"Karina Lukin","doi":"10.1111/muan.70017","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This review discusses audio recordings made by Finnish scholars among the Russian Arctic people in the early twentieth century and stored in various archives in Finland. The background of the recordings, together with their broader meaning and the possibilities for research they offer, is brought out.</p>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/muan.70017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145625611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Museum AnthropologyPub Date : 2025-11-30Epub Date: 2025-10-15DOI: 10.1111/muan.70024
István Sántha
{"title":"The Siberian Audio Collection of Vilmos Diószegi in Budapest","authors":"István Sántha","doi":"10.1111/muan.70024","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This commentary introduces the reader to the Siberian audio collection of the Hungarian ethnologist and researcher of shamanism Vilmos Diószegi (1923–1972). Diószegi conducted four research expeditions to southern Siberia and northern Mongolia, in 1957, 1958, 1960, and 1964, to study the shamanic traditions of Indigenous populations in these regions. During these expeditions, he recorded shamanic narratives and collected materials on shamanic practices from former shamans. The primary sources for this research are the audio recordings preserved in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, Diószegi's first workplace, along with other secondary materials, including written documents and ethnographic artifacts. The Museum of Ethnography digitized the audio materials and posted them on the museum's website in 2023 to commemorate the centenary of Diószegi's birth. The materials are of interest to representatives of Indigenous peoples of Siberia, as well as to anthropologists, folklorists, and linguists studying Siberian culture and languages.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145625654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}