Written by Ellen Forsman Larsson and Jasmine kato-Naughton The Ethnographic collection at UCL was founded soon after the opening of the Anthropology department in the…
Our summer exhibition is on display in UCL Anthropology Foyer till the end of September. Entitled From the beginning – A history of the Ethnography…
Alicia de la Serna, a student in the UCL Institute of Archaeology Conservation Masters program, has blogged on the work she did on a gourd…
Written by Carys Wilkins, MA Material and Visual Culture, UCL Anthropology The aim of this session included data collection from the participants’ fieldwork diaries and…
Written by Nikki Lan Xiao, MA Material and Visual Culture, UCL Anthropology A new exhibition of “The Story of Seething” has been set up in…
The exhibition on display in the Anthropology Galleries shines light on the relationship between religious bodily practice and material culture in association with The Bodily…
Last week we were happy to welcome Alyona Larionova to spend some time in the Ethnography Collections. Larionova has just finished a postgraduate degree in…
One of the major projects of the collection concerns its photographs. Hardly known, they consist of photographic prints, modern slides, flexible large format slides and…
In terms of the quantity of items, textiles do not occupy an important place in the Ethnographic Collection. At a mere 35 items, they represent…
This book, part of Material World’s Occasional Paper Series is the culmination of a research project called Properties and Social Imagination that ran from September 2012…