Museum Anthropology Review is an open access journal whose purpose is the wide dissemination of peer-reviewed articles, reviews, essays, obituaries and other content advancing the field of material culture and museum studies, broadly conceived. The journal is edited by Jason Baird Jackson in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University.
While, during its first year (2007) the journal itself was published on this site, the journal is now published using Open Journal Systems by the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries. Find it online here, where it is part of the IUScholarWorks Journals project. With the launch of MAR in OJS, this site will, for now, provide additional information and news related to the journal. All of the content originally published here remains available here. To access this material, consult the Contents or Author tabs.
Museum Anthropology Review shares its editorial office with a separate journal–Museum Anthropology and readers are urged to consult Museum Anthropology via the online portal AnthroSource. AnthroSource access to Museum Anthropology offers a chance to consult the journal’s rich archive as well as it’s current issues. Unlike Museum Anthropology Review, Museum Anthropology is the official journal of the Council for Museum Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association. Readers of Museum Anthropology Review are encouraged to consider joining and supporting the Council for Museum Anthropology. The Council’s website can be found here.
Copyright for materials published on Museum Anthropology Review is retained by individual contributors (unless otherwise noted). As an alternative to copyright, contributors may chose to release their work under a Creative Commons license.
In addition to being found here and in the journal’s OJS instance, materials published in Museum Anthropology Review are also digitally archived in IUScholarWorks Repository, the digital repository maintained by the libraries at Indiana University Bloomington. The Museum Anthropology Review “community” in IUScholarWorks provides full, open, searchable access to Museum Anthropology Review content with robust metadata and articles provided in .pdf format. Access to these materials is available here.
To learn more about open access publishing in anthropology, consult the Open Access Anthropology weblog.
The current banner photograph pictures the headquarters of the Longaberger Company near Newark, Ohio. The photograph and its many paradoxical resonances evoke some of the complexities being examined today by scholars in museum and material culture studies, including the contributors to Museum Anthropology Review.
