Museum Anthropology

Journal of the Council for Museum Anthropology

Museum Anthropology, a publication of the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA), is edited by Jason Baird Jackson, with its editorial offices in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University.  The journal is published in partnership with the University of California Press as part of the publications program of the American Anthropological Association.  The journal benefits from the support of the College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, and the CMA membership.

Museum Anthropology
publishes peer-reviewed research articles on material culture and in museum studies, including research on professional practice in museum settings and the cross-cultural study of museums and related organizations, viewed both in historical and ethnographic terms.  The journal also publishes commentaries and reviews of books, catalogs, exhibitions, and digital productions of interest to material culture and museum scholars.

Back issues of Museum Anthropology are available online in the AnthroSource digital portal.  The journal is indexed in Anthropological Index and Anthropological Literature.

For subscription, submission, and advertising information, see the journal’s page on the website of the University of California Press.

Those interested in the journal and the field are urged to visit the Museum Anthropology Weblog (blog).

Submissions and inquiries are welcome and should be directed to the editor:

Jason Baird Jackson
Editor, Museum Anthropology
Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology
Indiana University
504 North Fess Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47408
museanth@indiana.edu