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Sabra Thorner

Publication

Thorner, S. 2022. "Being Called to Action: Contemporary Museum Ethnographies." (Author of this introductory article and Guest Editor of Special Issue) Materiality, Belonging, and the Activation of Difference, Special Issue of Museum Anthropology 45(1). Online/Early view. DOI: 10.1111/muan.12243.

Thorner, S. (2020) “The Photograph as Archive, Reimagining the Archive, the Living Archive of Aboriginal Art,” (a photo-essay, with M. Clarke). AnthroVision, the online journal of the Visual Anthropology Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (VANEASA), Volume 8, Issue 1, Paolo Favero, ed. Launched August 31, 2022; available: http://journals.openedition.org/anthrovision/6647.

Edmonds, F., Khan, R., Thorner, S., and M. Clarke. 2020. "The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Expressions of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Through Collaborative Art-Making." REG/AC: Revista de Estudios Globales & Arte Contemporáneo // Journal of Global Studies and Contemporary Art, 7(1): 267-311.

Thorner, S., F. Edmonds, M. Clarke, K. Thorpe, R. Khan, and S. Huebner (2019). “The Living Archive of Aboriginal Art: Maree Clarke and the Circulation of Photographs as Culture-Making.” Mapping Meaning 3: 38-63. Available: http://www.mappingmeaning.org/the-journal-issues.

Thorner, S., Rive, L., Dallwitz, J., and Inyika, J. (2019). “Never Giving Up: Negotiating, Culture-Making, and the Infinity of the Archive.” In Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 18. Archival Returns: Central Australia and Beyond, edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, 263-284.  Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.

Thorner, S. (2019) “The Photograph as Archive: Crafting Contemporary Koorie Culture,” Journal of Material Culture 24(1): 22-47. 

Thorner, S. (2018) “Maree’s Backyard: Intercultural Collaborations for Indigenous Sovereignty” (with F. Edmonds, M. Clarke, and P. Balla), Shifting Indigenous Australian Realities: Dispersal, Damage, and Resurgence, special issue of Oceania 88(3): 269-291, Melinda Hinkson and Eve Vincent, eds. 

Honor

Sabra Thorner hosted "Ancestral Memories: Artists in Conversation" at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum on April 7, 2022.  This event featured five Indigenous Australian artists-in-residence as part of Spring 2022 Decolonizing Museums course (Anthropology 316). View the flyer for the event.

Ombretta Frau and Sabra Thorner led a gallery talk in the Mount Holyoke Art Museum on “The Afterlives of Objects” on November 7, 2019.

Niamh Timmons

Publication

Timmons, N. (2023). Constellating Trans Activist Histories. Graduate History Review, 12, 188-200. https://doi.org/10.18357/ghr12202321302.