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Ainu 2009-2013 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Centeno, M., & Liverani, L. Ainu 2009-2013. [Photography Exhibition]. 14 October 2013 - 24 October 2013. (Unpublished)

The Ainu, the native people of Japan, were officially recognized as an ethnicity in 2008, after more than a century of discrimination and oppression which almost completely effaced their language, society and culture. Today several individuals and gr... Read More about Ainu 2009-2013.

Mud Masons of Mali, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in the African Voices Hall Focus Gallery (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Marchand, T. H., & Arnoldi, M. J. Mud Masons of Mali, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in the African Voices Hall Focus Gallery. [Exhibition]. 31 August 2013 - 31 August 2014. (Unpublished)

This exhibition introduces a community of craftsmen who design, build and maintain Djenné's architectural heritage. The exhibition contents explore everyday challenges that masons encounter on their worksites and the tactics and strategies that they... Read More about Mud Masons of Mali, Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, in the African Voices Hall Focus Gallery.

Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Gefter, A., & Salffner, S. (2013). Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo. [print photographs (games and toys), print exhibtion catalogue (text, contextual photographs), videos (games, descriptions of games, consent sessions), audio (consent sessions, electronic photographs (consent session), toy bamboo cars]. 20 May 2013 - 2 August 2013. (Unpublished)

We have all played some form of football at some point in our lives, but what is your favourite game and what toys did you use to play with? Do you know the games ames, lago, ayo, ekpe, okuto, cashew, locker, abas, ludo, tyre, ring or whot? Have you... Read More about Children documenting language and culture: Games and toys in Ikakumo.

Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 1: Posters and Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s) (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Gerteis, C. Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 1: Posters and Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s). [Web]. Exhibited at Cambridge, Mass. 1 April 2013. (Unpublished)

Commissioned by the MIT Visualizing Cultures Initiative, this digital exhibit and accompanying essay narrate the history of the political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s by examining the visual propaganda -- posters, hand bills, and political cartoo... Read More about Political Protest in Interwar Japan - 1: Posters and Handbills from the Ohara Collection (1920s-1930s).