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Ira Jacknis's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Anthropology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Ira Stuart Jacknis was an American anthropologist who studied Native American art of the Northwest Coast. Jacknis had studied anthropology and art history as an undergraduate, deepening his interests in the history of anthropology while working as an intern at the Smithsonian Institution under curator William C. Sturtevant. He then continued his studies in history and anthropology under the tutelage Nancy Munn, Raymond Fogelson, and George W. Stocking at the University of Chicago. Much of Jacknis' work connected to ethnography, art history, and the history of anthropology.

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Ira Jacknis's Published Works

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Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson in Bali: Their Use of Photography and Film (1988) (120)
Franz Boas and Photography (1984) (49)
Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government (2017) (35)
The Storage Box of Tradition: Kwakiutl Art, Anthropologists, and Museums, 1881-1981 (2002) (34)
Visualizing Kwakwaka'wakw Tradition: The Films of William Heick, 1951-63 (2000) (21)
REPATRIATION AS SOCIAL DRAMA: THE KWAKIUTL INDIANS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, 1922-1980 (1996) (17)
A New Thing? The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective (2006) (16)
The First Boasian: Alfred Kroeber and Franz Boas, 1896-1905 (2002) (15)
Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art from the Brooklyn Museum@@@Objects of Myth and Memory: American Indian Art at the Brooklyn Museum (1992) (15)
James Mooney as an ethnographic photographer (1990) (9)
: Rolling in Ditches with Shamans: Jaime de Angulo and the Professionalization of American Anthropology (2006) (6)
Alfred Kroeber and the photographic representation of California Indians (2007) (5)
:Indian Baskets of Central California: Art, Culture, and History. Native American Basketry from San Francisco Bay and Monterey Bay North to Mendocino and East to the Sierras (2007) (5)
Introduction: Museum Anthropology in California, 1889‐1939 (1993) (5)
Alfred Kroeber as Museum Anthropologist (1993) (4)
Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, 1897-1902 (review) (2003) (4)
Coming of Age in Chicago: The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology (2016) (3)
Basket Weavers for the California Curio Trade: Elizabeth and Louise Hickox (1999) (3)
‘America Is Our Field’: Anthropological Regionalism at the American Museum of Natural History, 1895–1945 (2015) (2)
The picturesque and the scientific: Franz Boas's plan for anthropological filmmaking (1987) (2)
An Asian Frontier: American Anthropology and Korea, 1882–1945 by Robert Oppenheim (review) (2017) (1)
Anthropology, Art, and Folklore (2019) (1)
Telling a Story about the Past: Fact and Fiction in Two Recent Films on the History of Anthropology (1998) (1)
A Berkeley Home for Textile Art and Scholarship, 1912–79 (2004) (1)
The carver's art of the Indians of Northwestern California : an exhibition at the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology (1995) (1)
Big Eyes: The Southwestern Photographs of Simeon Schwemberger, 1902‐1908 (1993) (1)
Their Use of Photography and Film (2016) (1)
Doing the History of Anthropology as the History of Visual Representation (2016) (1)
Heafitz Hall of the North American Indian: Change and Continuity (1991) (1)
Towards an Art History of Northwest Coast First Nations Part 2 (2002) (1)
Where the People Gather: Carving a Totem Pole (1993) (1)
Getemono: Collecting the folk crafts of old Japan (1994) (0)
New Questions for Old Images: Recent Contributions to the History of Photography of Native Americans (2005) (0)
Ishi, The Last Yahi (2008) (0)
Boas and After: Museum Anthropology and the Governance of Difference in America (2016) (0)
: The Inuit Print/L'estampe inuit . Helga Goetz. ; Pitseolak: Pictures Out of My Life . Dorothy Eber. (1980) (0)
The NMAI in Historical and Institutional Perspective (2016) (0)
Producing “The Maori as He Was”: New Zealand Museums, Anthropological Governance, and Indigenous Agency (2016) (0)
Primitive Art in Civilized Places. SALLY PRICE (1991) (0)
Towards an Art History of Northwest Coast First Nations Part 1 (2002) (0)
Ethnology, Governance, and Greater France (2016) (0)
Through Time, Across Continents: A Hundred Years of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University Museum (1994) (0)
Anthropology and Radical Humanism: Native and African American Narratives and the Myth of Race. Jack Glazier. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020, 260 pp. $45.95, cloth. ISBN 9781611863505. (2021) (0)
Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions Andrew Gulliford (2001) (0)
A Liberal Archive of Everyday Life: Mass-Observation as Oligopticon (2016) (0)
A Sense of Place (1990) (0)
Towards an Art History of Northwest Coast First Nations Part 3 (2002) (0)
Three Centuries of Woodlands Indian Art: A Collection of Essays by J. C. H. King and Christian Feest (2009) (0)
The First Art of the First Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022) (0)
Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Visual Anthropology (2020) (0)
Coming of Age in Chicago (2016) (0)
Slide Review: Baskets o£ the California Indians. 1978. Text by Robert Matte, Jr. and Jerry Ferrin. (1979) (0)
Regional Surveys of Northwest Coast Native Art (2007) (0)
TOWARDS AN ART HISTORY OF NORTHWEST COAST FIRST NATIONS: A Review Essay of Recent Literature (2002) (0)
Book Review Essays and Reviews (2019) (0)
Edward S. Curtis: An Old Picture in a New Frame (2000) (0)
No Object without Its Story: (2019) (0)
ReviewPicturing Indians: Photographic Encounters and Tourist Fantasies in H.H. Bennett's Wisconsin Dells, Steven D. Hoelscher, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison (2008), xxi + 194 pages, US$24.95 paperback (2009) (0)
Franz Boas: Among the Inuit of Baffin Island, 1883-1884: Journals and Letters. Franz Boas , Ludger Muller-Wille , William Barr (2000) (0)
Visual Anthropology at the 94th American Anthropological Association Meetings (1995) (0)
acorns and manzanita cider in search of the original “california cuisine” (2007) (0)
Museums, Anthropology and Imperial Exchange, by Amiria J. M. Henare (2008) (0)
The Isaac Cowie Collection of Plains Cree Material Culture from Central Alberta (1992) (0)
More than a Footnote or Bibliographic Entry:Mary Lois Kissell as an Innovator of Textile Study (2014) (0)
Curatorial Logics and Colonial Rule: The Political Rationalities of Anthropology in Two Australian-Administered Territories (2016) (0)
Special Focus: History of the History of Anthropology Newsletter (2016) (0)
K roeber, A lfred L . (1876–1960) (2018) (0)
All the World Is Here: Harvard's Peabody Museum and the Invention of American Anthropology. Exhibit at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University. April 22, 2017–present. (2019) (0)
Regional Surveys of Northwest Coast Native Art A Review Essay (2007) (0)

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University of California, Berkeley