Anth 159a

Click to learn about the Kelley Riding School and Stables:

KelleyStables

Old Shiloh Baptist Church: Events and Celebrations

Old Shiloh Baptist Church: Reverend Phillips and the Congregation

Listen to a brief history of the church and hear individuals discuss the role of Shiloh Baptist Church in the West Medford community:

Old Shiloh Baptist Church: History and Introduction

Here’s my introduction to the West Medford walking tour, which complements Andrea’s

Dr. Auslander’s introduction to the tour

Our class tour of the community, led by Wallace Kountze, Hilton Parham, Jr. and Marilyn Smith

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Our class is working in collaboration with the Medford Historical Society. Please see their new website:

http://medfordhistorical.org/

The West Medford Afro-American Remembrance Project has a site within the MHS site, showing work done by students at Tufts in Professor Rosalind Shaw’s Public Anthropology courses:

http://medfordhistorical.org/remembrance.php

Please also see the on line exhibition on slavery in Medford:

http://medfordhistorical.org/africatomedford.php

also developed by Dr. Shaw’s students working with the Medford Historical Society.

In December 2005, Susan Winship of the Sudanese Education Fund kindly lent the Cultural Production MA program 23 paintings by Sudanese refugee artists, primarily painted by persons residing in Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. The art emerges from a project organized by the artist Atem Aleu. Students in Anth 159a are developing an exhibition in the seminar room of the Brandeis Anthropology department, tenatively set to open on December 13, 2005.

In November and December 2005, students in Dr. Auslander’s course “Museums and Public Memory” (Anth 159a) at Brandeis University conducted interviews with members of the Afro-American c ommunity of West Medford, Massachusetts. These interviews were arranged in collaboration with the West Medford Afro American Remembrance Project committee, directed by Mr. Wallace Kountze. We are all deeply grateful to Mr. Kountze and the other members of the WMAARP committee, as well as to the Medford Historical Society and Professor Rosalind Shaw (Anthropology, Tufts University), our collaborators in this project. Special thanks to the members of West Medford’s community, who have generously shared their memories and stories with us.

The following edited audio segments cover a number of topics, including remembrances of Old Shiloh Baptist Church, residential segregation and desegregation, memories of war, childraising in the community, and special locations in the neighborhood, including the Little Store, the riding stables, Dugger Park, the West Medford Community Center and locations of “fellowship.” These segments may be “podcast” into an ipod or MP3 players and played back on a walking tour of the neighborhood, or they may be accessed directly on this web log. Please take a look at the photographs and documents posted through links on the side of this page, to get a sense of this wonderful and historic community.

Mark Auslander and the students in Anth 159a (Fall 2005)

What does one expect from a public exhibit?

Do those expectations change when the exhibit is in a space known for other things?

How does seeing a display in a library change the viewer?

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Worcester Library and Displays