Museum Ethnographers Group

Short description: Collective of ethnographic researchers in the UK

The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG) is a United Kingdom -based collective for those working with and researching ethnographic collections in museums. It is registered as a charity in England and Wales (no. 1023150) and is recognised in the UK museum sector as a subject specialist network. It is often known to its members by its acronym MEG. Its most obvious functions are the annual conference it organises and the journal it publishes.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 MEG conference
* 3 Journal of Museum Ethnography
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

MEG was founded in 1975 at a meeting in Liverpool on Communicating Anthropology — the role of museums, when its first Chair was Peter Gathercole.[1][2]

## MEG conference

MEG holds an annual conference, normally hosted by a UK museum. MEG's 2018 conference at the Pitt Rivers Museum concerned the legacy of colonialism in British museums.[3]

## Journal of Museum Ethnography

The MEG newsletter for many years functioned as a kind of journal, containing scholarly articles despite its photocopied pages.[citation needed] In 1989, MEG began to publish the Journal of Museum Ethnography (JME), and has done so every year since. In 2010, MEG reached an agreement with JSTOR to digitise all past issues of JME, as well as the early newsletters.

Issues and themes
Volume | Year | Theme

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1 | 1989 | A Question of Image
2 | 1990 | The Walrus Said
3 | 1991 | African Anthropology in Scotland
4 | 1992 | Baskets of the World
5 | 1993 | What is Ethnography?
6 | 1994 | Museum Ethnography and Communities
7 | 1995 | Tourism, Anthropology and Museums & New Developments in Scotland
8 | 1996 | Picturing Paradise
9 | 1997 | MEG 21st Birthday: Past and future in museum ethnography
10 | 1998 | Inter-Active: World Cultures and Museum Education
11 | 1999 | 'Arts Premiers'? Ethnography and Art in the late 20th Century
12 | 2000 | Glimpses of Africa – Museums, scholarship and popular culture
13 | 2001 | Developing Dialogues: Museums and their Communities
14 | 2002 | Transformations
15 | 2003 | Power and Collecting
16 | 2004 | Developing Audiences – Developing Collections
17 | 2005 | Pacific Ethnography, Politics and Museums
18 | 2006 | Looking Backward, Looking Forward
19 | 2007 | Feeling the Vibes: Dealing with Intangible Heritage
20 | 2008 | Objects of Trade
21 | 2009 | Encounters with Polynesia: Exhibiting the Past in the Present
22 | 2010 | Museum Ethnography at Home

## References

1. ↑ Museum Ethnographers Newsletter No. 1 (19 July 1976)
2. ↑ Interview of Peter Gathercole by Alan Macfarlane and Ami Henare. Filmed by Alan Macfarlane at King's College, 8 May 2003.
3. ↑ Shariatmadari, David (2019-04-23). "'They're not property': the people who want their ancestors back from British museums" (in en-GB). The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/apr/23/theyre-not-property-the-people-who-want-their-ancestors-back-from-british-museums.

## External links

* MEG website
* MEG blog on Blogspot

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