When will this be offered and at what URL? >The American Museum of Natural History and Discovery Channel Online present >Marks of Identity: A Live Web Cast > > >When is body art about fashion? When is it about beauty? What do these >words mean? For individuals? For different communities? How do societal >standards and conventions form and affect our views of self and thus our >body art? And when does beauty blend into issues of race, wealth, power, >status, and gender? Three panelists including the American Museum of >Natural History’s Enid Schildkrout discuss and answer questions about body >art and its relationship to trends and standards of beauty. > > >Enid Schildkrout is Department Chair in the Division of Anthropology at the >American Museum of Natural History and organizing curator for Body Art: >Marks of Identity. She has been involved with many exhibition projects, >including curating African Reflections: Art from Northeatern Zaire which >resulted in a film and a prize-winning book. She received her Ph.D. in >Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and has studied African >cultures for three decades. Her most recent book, edited with Curtis A. >Keim, is The Scramble for Art in Central Africa (Cambridge University Press, >1998). > >Valerie Steele is Chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of >Technology and Editor of the quarterly journal Fashion Theory: The Journal >of Dress, Body & Culture. Her numerous books have included Shoes: A >Lexicon of Style (Rizzoli, 1999), Fifty Years of Fashion: New Look to Now >(Yale University Press, 1997), and Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power (Oxford >University Press, 1996). Currently under curation is The Corset: >Fashioning the Body (forthcoming, January 2000). She received her Ph.D. in >cultural history from Yale University. > >Noliwe Rooks is a Visiting Assistant Professor in History and African >American Studies at Princeton University. Her book Hair Raising: Beauty, >Culture and African American Women won the Choice Award for Outstanding >Academic Book. She is currently at work on two projects. One is a social >history of African American women’s magazines between 1891-1975, and the >other is entitled Fat: An American Obsession. She received her Ph.D. in >American Studies fr > >Important Subscriber Information: > >The Museum-L FAQ file is located at >http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may >obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a >one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of >the message should read "help" (without the quotes). > >If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to >[log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff >Museum-L" (without the quotes). Katherine Jones Assistant Director Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Harvard University 11 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 (617) 495-1969 (617) 495-7535 FAX [log in to unmask] http://www.peabody.harvard.edu ========================================================Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ museum-l.html. You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).