A.7908.61-25 A & B, Blackfoot Gloves.

RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Jill Cherneff
Lynn H. Gamble
Zena Pearlstone

Christopher B. Steiner
Kathy Whitaker



Jill Cherneff, Ph.D., New School for Social Research, 1982
Research Associate

Research Scholar, UCLA Center for the Study of Women
cherneff@ucla.edu

Research Interests
Southeast Asia; Gender studies; Hollywood Film Industry

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Lynn H. Gamble, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991
Research Associate

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, San Diego State University
lgamble@mail.sdsu.edu

Research Interests
Archaeology, complex hunter-gatherers, Chumash, exchange; California

Select Publications

2002 "Social Differentiation and Exchange during the Historic Period among the Kumeyaay," senior author with Irma Carmen Zepeda. Historical Archaeology, 36(2):71-91.
2002 "Archaeological Evidence for the Origin of the Plank Canoe in North America." American Antiquity 67(2):301-315.
2001 "An Integrative Approach to Mortuary Analysis: Social and Symbolic Dimensions of Chumash Burial Practices," senior author with Phillip Walker and Glenn Russell.
American Antiquity 66(2):185-212.

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Zena Pearlstone, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1977
Research Associate

zpearlstone@fullerton.edu

Research Interests
Art (particularly issues of authenticity, advertising, tradition, commodification and appropriation); North America, Southwest - Hopi katsina art (including artists, sellers and collectors); Self-portraiture

Select Publications

2001 Katsina: Commodified and Appropriated Images of Hopi Supernaturals. Los Angeles, California: UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History.
2000 "Mail-Order ‘Katsinam’ and the Issue of Authenticity." In Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 42 (4) (Winter), pp. 801-832.
1999 Touching the Intangible: Ritual and Ceremonial Works from the Gene Isaacson Collection. California State University, Fullerton, Main Art Gallery.

Exhibits

KATSINA/KACHINA: Tradition, Appropriation, Innovation, UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
August 4, 2002 - March 23, 2003

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Christopher B. Steiner, Ph.D., Harvard University, 1990
Research Associate

Lucy C. McDannel '22 Associate Professor and Chair of Art History, Connecticut Collecge
Director of Museum Studies Program, Connecticut College
cbste@conncoll.edu

Research Interests
Social Anthropology, art history, visual culture; Africa

Select Publications

2001 “Rights of Passage: On the Liminal Identity of Art in the Border Zone.” In The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture, edited by Fred R. Myers. School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series. Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press.
1999 Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds, edited with Ruth B. Phillips. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
1997 Perspectives on Africa: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation, edited with Roy Richard Grinker. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

On the Web
Christopher B. Steiner homepage

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Kathy Whitaker, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1986
Research Associate

Director, Indian Arts Research Center, School of American Research
whitaker@sarsf.org

Research Interests
Ethnology, material culture, Navajo and Pueblo textiles; American Indian art; North America

Select Publications

2002 Southwest Textiles: Weavings of the Pueblo and Navajo. Washington: University of Washington Press.
2000 "Walter McClintock's Record of the Blackfeet Indian Confederacy." In Finnish Sauna, Japanese Furo and Indian Inipi, edited by Juhn Pentikainen. Helsinki, Finland: Building Information Ltd.
1999 Common Threads: Textiles of the Pueblo and Navajo. Los Angeles, California: Southwest Museum Press.

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