Virtual Exhibits
Refugee Art from the Southern Sudan
Students in Dr. Auslander's course, "Museums and Public Memory" (Anth 159a) have developed an on line exhibition of paintings by displaced Southern Sudanese residing in Kakuma Refugee Camp. These remarkable art works, documenting histories of genocide as well as extraordinary cultural resilience, are being preserved in the Department of Anthropology, within the new Southern Sudan Cultural Documentation Center.
Link to The Justice (Brandeis University) January 23, 2007
Link to The Hoot (Brandeis University) Feb. 2, 2007
"Two communities on different continents speak the same language in Tufts' Slater Concourse Gallery"
Link to article in The Tufts' Daily - March 15, 2007.
This virtual exhibition explores Akakura Mountain Shrine, a popular Shinto institution in northern Japan founded by a rural woman in the 1920s. Worshippers, primarily local women, undertake mountain ascetic ritual on the mountainscape, in close association with local spirit mediums. This website contains teaching resources in support of Dr. Ellen Schattschneider's book, Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain (Duke University Press, 2003).
Students in Dr. Auslander's course, "Tradition and Contemporary Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa" (Anth133a) offer anthropological perspectives on the "Coexistence" exhibition project, at the Rose Art Museum during Spring semester 2003. How have the arists represented in this show charted the complex, overlapping "memoryscapes" of Southern African historical experience?