Section: Staff Profiles
Jeanne Cannizzo
- Name
- Dr Jeanne Cannizzo
- Title
- Honorary Fellow
- Organisation
- Social Anthropology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- j.e.cannizzo@ed.ac.uk
- URL
- http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/staff/cannizzo_jeanne
Research Interests:
Art, aesthetics, material culture, museums and exhibitions, ethnographic photography, contemporary art
Biographical Statement:
My original field research was undertaken in Sierra Leone (on children's masquerades and performance in urban communities) and Canada (on indigenous artists and galleries). I also organise museum exhibitions and radio documentaries on cultural matters. My current research project is on the social life of a particular object- Napoleon's military carriage which was captured at the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and displayed in the UK until it was destroyed in a fire at Madame Tussaud's waxworks in 1925.
Selected Publications:
1994 'Museum Theatre in the 1990s: Trailblazer or Camp-follower?', with David Parry, in Museums and the Appropriation of Culture, ed. Susan Pearce, Athlone Press.
1996 'David Livingstone and the Victorian Encounter with Africa', Exhibition and chapter in book of the same name, National Portrait Gallery, London.
1999 'Inside out: Cultural production in the museum and the academy' in Academic Anthropology and the Museum, ed. Mary Bouquet, FOCAAL Vol 34.
2000 'O Caledonia! Sir Walter Scott and the Creation of Scotland', Exhibition and CD-Rom, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
2005 'Our Highland Home: Victoria and Albert in Scotland', Exhibition and book of the same title, Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
2006 ' The Alikali Devils of Sierra Leone: Play, Performance, and Social Commentary, in Playful Performers, eds. Simon Ottenberg and David Binkley, Transaction Books.
2006 'Heads and Bodies: Fragments and Restoration' in International Journal of Ceramics, and electronic journal.
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