Conference
Basketry and Beyond: Constructing Cultures
Thursday 14 – Saturday 16 April 2011
This conference offered the opportunity to explore the importance of basketry in human culture from a broadly academic perspective. Members of the research team behind the Basketry exhibition spoke about the project, as well as contributions by guest speakers including artist Mary Butcher on The Basket Maker in East Anglia, Professor David Guss of Tufts University on Gender Abstractions and Imaginary Journeys, exhibition curator Professor Sandy Heslop on Basketry in the Frame and Professor Tim Ingold of University of Aberdeen with a talk titled To Build is to Weave.
- Coiling in Context: tracing identity through basketry in Egypt
- Style, Basketry & Basketmakers Redux: Looking at Individuals Through a "Perishable" Prism.
- Baskets in Caves: A View of the Chumash World
- Weaving modern minds: A cognitive approach to basketry in prehistory
- The Social and Technological Development of Prehistoric Basketry
- Changing narratives; the place of basketry in the Neolithic and Copper Age cultures of Europe.
- Some animals make things; that makes a difference
- Nest building by weaver birds
- The botany of baskets
- Basketry in the Frame
- Expansion and Containment: Shaping Space through Contemporary Basketry
- The Basketmaker in East Anglia
- Humblyband - a Celtic/Ugandan boat building exchange project
- Material Values
- Cross-cultural Utility of Classification Systems: the Case of Yup’ik Eskimo Basketry of Southwest Alaska
- Basket making in the Americas and the value of work
- Gender Abstractions and Imaginary Journeys
- Basketry, identity and cosmology in the Amazon: the Asurini do Xingu
- To build is to weave
- Gods, chiefs, bodies and basketry in Polynesia
- Humble, but Important Things: Transforming Basketry Technology, Narratives and Gender Relations in the Purari Delta
- Baskets of Wisdom
"What I enjoyed about the conference was that being a basket-maker I got the opportunity to learn from the other side, from archaeology and anthropology papers, communicating with like minds"
Conference delegate
"The conference has helped me strengthen my network and make new contacts, putting names to faces and meeting them."
Conference delegate
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