The Fall 2001 issue (Vol. 25, No. 1) of Museum Anthropology has just come out.
I thought the list might be interested in some of the articles so here is the table of contents:
Articles:
Exploring Issues of Importance to the Local Community through the University Museum The Exhibition Facing HIV/AIDS: Reality and Response - Tamara Bray and Andrea Sankar
"About Face": Approaching a Dialogue of Images and Display - John J. Bodinger de Uriarte
Indians in Formaldehyde - Nation of Progress: The Museo Nacional of Mexico and the Construction of National Identity - Sophia C. Vackimes
Merging Traditional Indigenous Curation Methods with Modern Museum Standards of Care - Gillian A. Flynn and Deborah Hull-Walski
Commentary and Exchange:
Please Increase Your Browser's Memory Partition: Individual Action and Collective Blame in the Hall of Biodiversity - Torin Monahan
Museums and Intellectual Property - Conrad G. Froehlich
In addition to the above there are reviews of three exhibitions and book reviews.
Here is the web page for the journal: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/cma/ma.html ordering info. is toward the bottom.
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