Those concerned with Oklahoma arts and cultures may be interested to learn of a paper in the current (2007) issue of Ethnology (45.3): “Painting Culture: Art and Ethnography at a School for Native Americans” by Lisa Neuman. Professor Neuman’s paper explores the role of cultural knowledge in the work of artists associated with the art program at Bacone College. I wish that I had had access to this useful paper when I was putting together my own recent essay exploring related themes: “Blue Eagle, Beaver and McCombs: The Place of Culture in Muscogee Painting” for the recent issue of Gilcrease Journal (15.1).
It is not [yet] an open access publication, but the venerable journal Ethnology (founded in 1962) is still in the hands of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pittsburgh, its long-term publisher. In an era in which many former house journals have been handed off to one of the multinational, for-profit publishing conglomerates, it is a great thing that Ethnology‘s fate is still in the hands of a community of scholars. Similarly, Gilcrease Journal, while, unfortunately, not available electronically, is still published solely by the Gilcrease Museum, which retains control of its future.
