Professor, O Cavalheiro Anthony Alan Shelton
BA (Hull), MLitt (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon), FCMA
Articles
Journal Articles
2019
Osorio Sunnucks, Laura, Nicola Levell, Anthony Shelton, Motoi Suzuki, Gwyneira Isaac, and Diana E. Marsh. "Interruptions: Challenges and Innovations in Exhibition-Making". Museum Worlds 8.1 (2020): 168-187. < https://doi.org/10.3167/armw.2020.080112>. Web. 5 Feb. 2021.
2019
Gwyneira Isaac, Diana Marsh, Laura Osorio Sunnucks and Anthony Alan Shelton. Borders and Interruptions. Museums in the Age of Global Mobility. Museum Worlds. Advances in Research 7: 182-199.
2018
Museums and the Anthropological Imagination. Positioning the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka on its Fortieth Anniversary. Bulletin of the National Museum of Ethnology 43, 1: 81-112.
2018
Creatures of Mexican Masks (1): From the Former Cordry Collection (Mekishiko kamen ni miru kurichatachi (1): Kyu Kodori korekushon yori), translated by Yuriko Yamanaka, Gekkan Minpaku (Minpaku Monthly), November issue, 2018, pp. 14-15.
2018
Anthropology, Reconciliation, and Collaborative Methodologies. MINPAKU Anthropology Newsletter. 46: 1-3.
2018
Creatures of Mexican Masks (2): The Devils of Teloloapan (Mekishiko kamen ni miru kurichatachi (2): Teroroapan no akuma), translated by Yuriko Yamanaka, Gekkan Minpaku (Minpaku Monthly), December issue, 2018, pp. 14-15.
2017
Museum Policy and the Arts in Canada. Muse Magazine. September/October: 45-51.
2017
Change is Life. Roundup (magazine of the British Columbia Museums Association). Winter 267: 9-10.
2017
Ritual Process of Repatriation: A Discussion. Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, Vol. 5 (2017): 88-94.
2016
European Ethnography and World Culture Museums. Museumskunde 81(1): 20-27.
2014
Re-totalizing Culture: Breathing the Intangible into Museum Practice. Ethnologies, Vol. 36-1-2: 207-234.
2013
Critical Museology: A Manifesto. Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, Vol. 1 (2013): 7-23.
2011
Multiplex Babel. In Museum X. Zur Neuvermessung einer mehrdimensionalen Raumes. Berlin, Verlag Panama (2011): 143-153.
2011
From Anthropology to Critical Museology and Vice Versa. Museo y Territorio (4): 30-41.
2011
The Museum as Multiversity: Repositioning Museums in the Second Museum Age. Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, 7(4): 393-395.
2009
The Public Sphere as Wilderness: Le Musée du quai Branly. Museum Anthropology 23(1): 1-16.
2008
Reply: The Curator as Witness. Museum Management and Curatorship 23(3): 225-228.
2008
The Skeptical Curator: Reflections on Nuno Porto’s ‘Offshore’. Museum Management and Curatorship 23(3): 209-212.
2007
Questioning Locality: UBC Museum of Anthropology and its Hinterlands. Ethnographica 11(2): 387-406.
2007
‘Intellige ut credas:’ The First Canada-China Cultural Exchange Mission. Muse 25 (2): 12-15.
2001
Museums in an Age of Cultural Hybridity. Folk. Journal of the Danish Ethnographic Society 43: 221-49.
2001
Theatres of Combat: Humiliation, Vindication, and the Expression of Difference in Mexican Dance Dramas. Antropologia Portuguesa 18: 13-54.
2000
Los Tlocololeros. A Structuralist Interpretation of a Mexican Dance Drama. Antropologia Portuguesa 19: 43-68.
2000
Curating African Worlds. Journal of Museum Ethnography (12): 5-20.
1999
Unsettling the Meaning. Critical Museology, Art and Anthropological Discourse. Focaal. Tijdschrift voor antropologie (34): 143-161. (Republished in M. Bouquet (ed.), 2001.)
1998
(with N. Levell) Text, Illustration and Reverie: Thoughts on Museums, Education and New Technologies. Journal of Museum Ethnography (10): 15-34.
1998
Epa Masks. Journal of Museum Ethnography (10): 121-4.
1997
The Future of Museum Ethnography. Journal of Museum Ethnography (9): 33-48.
1997
My Others’ Others Other: The Limits of Museum Ethnography. Antropologia Portuguesa (14): 37-62.
1995
Editor) Introduction: Object Realities, Museums and Changing Perspectives of Culture. Cultural Dynamics 7(1): 5-14.
1994
Huichol Prayer: Image and Word in Sacred Communication. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford XXV(1): 77-89.
1994
Chinese Puppets in the Collections of Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. The Royal Pavilion and Museums Review (1): 12-15.
1993
Re-presenting Non-Western Art and Ethnography at Brighton. The Royal Pavilion and Museums Review (1):1-14.
1992
The Recontextualisation of Culture in UK Museums. Anthropology Today 8(5): 11-16.
1992
Constructing the Global Village. Museums Journal: 25-28.
1991
Pre-Columbian American Collections (in Japanese). In The British Museum. Tokyo, Japan Broadcasting Company (NHK) 6: 42-109.
1991
The Romance of the ‘Primitive’, Part 1. 1905-1948. The Royal Pavilion and Museums Review, no. 1: 11.
1991
The Romance of the ‘Primitive’, Part 2. 1948-1990. The Royal Pavilion and Museums Review, no. 2: 4-7.
1990
Mesoamerica: The Mayan and Aztec Civilisation. In Treasures of the British Museum: Art and Man. Tokyo, Setagaya Art Museum with the Japan Broadcasting Company (NHK) and Asahi Shimbun: 177-203.
1989
(With J. King) The Americas In D.Wilson (ed.), The Collections of the British Museum. London, British Museum Press: 89-95.
1989
Preliminary Notes on Some Structural Parallels in the Symbolic and Relational Classifications of Nahuatl and Huichol Deities. Cosmos: The Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society, Polytheistic Systems (5): 151-183.
1989
An Aztec Cihuateotl Discovered in Scotland. Apollo: 260-262.
1988
Towards an Anthropology of Exploitation. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford XVIII (3): 237-247.
1988
Realm of the Fire Serpent. British Museum Bulletin, no. 58: 21-25.
1988
Latin American Indian Jewellery. In John Mack (ed), Ethnic Jewellery. London, British Museum Publications: 148-153.
1988
Los Huicholes en el Mundo de los Santos. Mexico Indigena (22): 48-50.
1988
Huichol Natural Philosophy. Cosmos: The Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society, Amerindian Cosmologies (4): 339-354.
1987
Bolivian Carnival. British Museum Society Bulletin, no. 55: 18-19.
1987
Ivory and Bone Carving in Ancient Central and South America. In F. St Aubyn (ed.), Ivory. A History and Collectors Guide. London, Thames and Hudson: 314-323.
1986
The Recollection of Times Past: Memory and Event in Huichol Narrative. History and Anthropology (2): 335-378. (Republished in M. N Bourguet et al. 1990.)
1985
Pre-Columbian Jewellery. In H. Tait (ed.), Seven Thousand Years of Jewellery. London, British Museum Publications: 121-134.
1983
Disinheriting the Tzotzil: Neutrality and Ideological Effect in Ethnographic Discourse. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford XIV (1): 116-123.
1983
La Pensée Bourgeoise. Cultures et Developpement: Revue Internationale de sciences du developpement, XV (3): 557-574.
1982
The Structure of Maya Historiography and the Consciousness of Historical Struggle. Cultures et Developpement: Revue Internationale de sciences du developpement XIV (2-3): 463-471.
1982
Politics and Perception: Ideological Restructuration and Ethnographic Discourse. Cultures et Developpement: Revue Internationale de sciences du developpement XIV (2-3): 395-425.
1979
Theoretical Hegemony and the Marxist Signified. Cultures et Developpment: Revue Internationale de sciences du developpement XI (1):117-126.
1978
The Dutch Connection. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford IX (2): 143-148.
1978
Volosinov on the Ideology of Inversion. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford IX (3):191-195.