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Department of Anthropology

Emeriti Faculty

Margaret B. Blackman
PhD,The Ohio State University

"Anthropology is unparalleled in its capacity to take you to new places, to open the world and allow you see it and yourself in new ways."


E-mail: mblackma@brockport.edu

Area of Specialization

Oral history, Life history, Ethnohistory, Humanistic Anthropology, art and aesthetics, Native North America—Arctic and Northwest Coast


Research Projects

“Faces of the Nunamiut” a study of maskmaking in the Nunamiut Eskimo village of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, the relationship of this art for the market to traditional knowledge of the land and its resources.


Selected Publications


2005
(Co- editor with Molly Lee) Making It:  Creating Artifacts  in the Anthropological Setting. Special Section Alaska Journal of Anthropology 2(1-2).

2005
“Focus on the Fridge,” Gastronomica:  The Journal of Food and Culture 5(4): 32-37.

2004
Upside Down:  Seasons among the Nunamiut.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press.

2002
99721:  The Place of Many Caribou Droppings.  Folklore Forum 33 (1-2):35-44

1999
Death Comes to the Anthropologist:  Reflections on the Haida Morturary Potlatch.  In, Perspectives on Dying.and Death  Edited by Kathleen Hunter, pp. 93-98.  Madison, WI:  Coursewise Publishing. 

1997
In Their Own Images:  The Anaktuvuk Pass Skin Mask.  American Indian Art Magazine 22(4):58-67.

1992
During My Time:  Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press.  Revised and enlarged edition.

1989
Sadie Brower Neakok, An Iñupiaq Woman.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press.

News

Anthropology: News

Fall/Halloween Department Party

All are welcome! Bring something to share. Thursday, Oct. 27th from 4:45-6pm in Cooper, rm. C-3.

Marjorie Helen Stewart Speaker Series

Dr. Maryann McCabe will be speaking on Tuesday, Nov. 8th at 4:45pm. See flyers for rm. confirmation.

Events

Mon, Feb 13

Black History Month Speaker

Win a Night on Ice
9:30 pm - 11 pm

Tue, Feb 14

Red Cross Blood Drive
10 am - 4 pm

CSA Newlyweds
9 pm - 11 pm

Wed, Feb 15

CSA Success VS Sell-Out
9 pm - 11 pm