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Margaret 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.
2004Upside Down:  Seasons among the Nunamiut.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press.
200299721:  The Place of Many Caribou Droppings.  Folklore Forum 33 (1-2):35-44
1999Death 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. 
1997In Their Own Images:  The Anaktuvuk Pass Skin Mask.  American Indian Art Magazine 22(4):58-67.
1992During My Time:  Florence Edenshaw Davidson, A Haida Woman.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press.  Revised and enlarged edition.
1989Sadie Brower Neakok, An Iñupiaq Woman.  Seattle:  University of Washington Press.

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April 22 3:30 pm
Marjorie Helen Stewart Speaker Series: Professor Robert J. Foster, Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Rochester, will speak on "Adversaries into Partners? Brand Value, Consumer-Citizens, and the Coca-Cola Company,"  Edwards Hall, Room 103.
 

April 25, 7:30 pm
Robert Marcus Memorial Lecture: Professor Anthony Marcus, Dept. of Anthropology at John Jay College, CUNY, will speak on “Moral Panics: Youth, Sex and Forced Labor, Yesterday and Today,” New York Room, Cooper Hall