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Material Culture Caucus
ARTIFACT e-list
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AMERICAN MATERAL CULTURE
a discussion list
ARTIFACT, the electronic forum for the discussion of material culture scholarship within the American context, is sponsored at the University of Maryland, College Park on behalf of the Material Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association (the professional organization for American Studies scholars in the United States). Messages posted to ARTIFACT are distributed to an international community of subscribers working in fields including history, art history, folklore and folklife, anthropology, archaeology, american studies, museum studies, preservation, cultural studies, visual culture and public sector museum, heritage, and other non-profit cultural work.
ARTIFACT is a moderated list, which means that any posting you make to the artifact@listserv.umd.edu address will need to be approved before it is distributed. To facilitate this process, please adhere to several simple guidelines when posting. Be sure to write in clear and complete sentences, and to provide sufficient background information with your message that it can be of potential use or interest to a majority of list subscribers; pick a subject line that is clear and informative as well. Please also include your full name and e-mail address in the body of your note, as some e-mail programs may strip that information from the headers. With rare exceptions, only subscribers to the list will be able to post.
A wide range of topics relating to material culture study are appropriate for ARTIFACT. These might include research queries, program announcements, or discussions of teaching strategies, and theoretical and methodological issues. Students are always welcome. Though the list will emphasize American material culture study, there are times when non-American topics might be suitable, for informational or comparative reasons. The same goes for policy issues which might have direct bearing on material culture study or humanities-based scholarship in general. Please do not hesitate to post.
Archives of past discussions are available to subscribers only.
Susan Garfinkel, artifact moderator
Jo Paoletti, list co-owner
To subscribe to ARTIFACT:
send an email message to the address listserv@listserv.umd.edu that says:
subscribe artifact firstname lastname
substituting your own first name and last name in the above. The listserv sofware will read your address from that message and send you further information about the list.
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