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Exhibitions

Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place

Experience the work of American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in this landmark exhibition bringing together works by the artist alongside his unique interventions in The Fitzwilliam Museum's galleries.

A group of indigenous women in Mexico.

A woman in the field: Susan Drucker-Brown’s photographs and anthropological fieldnotes (Mexico 1957-1958)

Mon 22 April 2024 - Fri 31 May 2024

Alison Richard Building

This exhibition, curated and researched by Paula López Caballero, displays photographs and ethnographic fieldnotes produced by Cambridge-based anthropologist Susan Drucker-Brown (1936-2023) in the Mixtec-speaking village of Jamiltepec (Oaxaca, Mexico) in 1957 and 1958. She was one of the first women anthropologists in Mexico, and a pioneer in the study of women’s clothing and the changes they were undergoing, with the replacement of handmade (loom) clothing by industrial one.

The exhibition not only presents this little-known aspect of Drucker-Brown’s work. It also invites us to reflect on three aspects: Firstly, the processes of mestizaje, indigeneity and modernisation experienced in Mexico in the mid-twentieth century at an indigenous and rural locality. Secondly, the everyday life of ethnographic research and, in particular, the role of women in fieldwork. And thirdly, the afterlives of the materials produced during fieldwork, either as collections in museums or archives, or as part of restitution processes to the villages where the anthropologists worked.

Join us for refreshments and an exhibition tour from 18:00 - 19:00 on 22 April.

Cost: free

Enquiries and booking

Enquiries: Judith Weik Website Email: enquiries@crassh.cam.ac.uk

Timing

In person

9:00am-7:00pm on weekdays from Monday 22 April 2024 until Friday 31 May 2024 (except on Bank Holidays)

All times

Mon 22 April 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 23 April 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 24 April 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 25 April 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 26 April 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Mon 29 April 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 30 April 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 1 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 2 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 3 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 7 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 8 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 9 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 10 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Mon 13 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 14 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 15 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 16 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 17 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Mon 20 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 21 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 22 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 23 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 24 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 28 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 29 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 30 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 31 May 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM

Venue

Address: Alison Richard Building
All levels
Sidgwick Site
7 West Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9DP
United Kingdom
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