Cornell University
Intercollege Program
 

ARCHAEOLOGY  CORE  FACULTY
     
 
Magnus Fiskesjö
Assistant Professor,
Anthropology

nf42@cornell.edu
607.255.6777
204 McGraw Hall
Education
  • University of Chicago, joint Ph.D. in Anthropology (Archaeology) and
    in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 2000
  • University of Chicago, M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, 1994
  • Lund University, Sweden, B.A., 1986
  • Fu Dan University, Shanghai, China, visiting student diploma, 1981-83
Teaching Experience
  • Cornell University – 2005 to present
  • Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 2000-2004
 
Research Interests
  • Asian anthropology and archaeology
  • States, borders, and ethnic relations
  • Global cultural heritage issues
  • Museum studies
 
Research Experience
In the 1990s, participated in field research with the Thailand Archaeometallurgy Project (TAP) and in excavations in Japan. My dissertation research was mainly ethnographic and historical, among the Wa people in Southwest China, near Burma; I continue to do research there, and since 2005 also at the so-called Southern Great Wall in Hunan/Guizhou, China, among other places.
 
Selected Publications
(Archaeology-related. See my Anthropology department website for other areas.)
  Forthcoming: "The Global Repatriation Debate and the New Universal Museums." Commentary on PART III, "Addressing/Redressing the Past: Restitution, Repatriation, and Ethics," in The Handbook of Postcolonialism and Archaeology. Volume editors: Jane Lydon and Uzma Rizvi. World Archaeological Congress Research Handbooks (2009?).
  Forthcoming: "The Patriotic Collector: China and the Global Politics of Cultural Heritage and Repatriation." In Reclaiming Chinese Society, ed. Lee, Ching Kwan and Hsing, You-tien. London: Routledge, (2009?).
2007 “The Trouble with World Culture: Recent Museum Developments in Sweden.” Anthropology Today 23.5 (October 2007), 6–11.
2006 “Chinese Collections Outside China: Problems and Hopes.” (Inaugural lecture, International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology, University College London, March 2005). Public Archaeology [London] 5.2 (2006), 111–26.
2004 China Before China: Johan Gunnar Andersson, Ding Wenjiang, and the Discovery of China’s Prehistory. With Chen Xingcan. Bilingual (English-Chinese). Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2004. ISBN: 9197061638.
2003 “Rising From Blood-Stained Fields: Royal Hunting and State Formation in Shang China.“ Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 73 (2001), 48–192.
2003 "Editor’s Introduction." Special Issue: “New Perspectives in Eurasian Archaeology.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 75 (2003), 5-8.
2003 “Who will take responsibility for the world’s cultural heritage? -- The view of a Western museum director”). Zhongguo wenwu bao, ”Heritage Weekly” suppl., Febr. 14, 2003. (In Chinese).
2003 "New Concepts for Collection Sharing: European-Asian Museum History, Its Discontents, and Possibilities for the Future." In Anna Karlström and Anna Källén, eds., Fishbones and Glittering Emblems . Southeast Asian Archaeology 2002 (Proceedings of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists' 9th International Conference, Sigtuna, Sweden, May 27–June 2, 2002). Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2003, 459-69.
2003 "Oscar Montelius and Chinese Archaeology." In Chinese Archaeology and World Archaeology in the 20th Century. Inst. of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, ed. With Chen Xingcan. Beijing: China Social Sciences Press, 2003, 686-95. (In Chinese).
2003 "An Important Document in the History of Modern Chinese Science: Andersson's letter to the Swedish Crown Prince.” With Chen Xingcan. Gujin lunheng [Taipei], 8 (2003), 10-17. (In Chinese).
2002 Glimpses of Southeast Asia. Ed. with Anna Karlström. Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2002. ISBN: 9197061603
2001 “Open-Air Museums in Sweden and Their History.” Pak Mul Kwan Hak Bo (Korean Journal of Museum Studies, Seoul), 4 (2001), 178–96.
2001 "The Question of the Farmer Fortress: On the ethnoarchaeology of fortified settlements in northern Southeast Asia." Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association 21. Special issue: Indo-Pacific Prehistory: The Melaka Papers Vol. V, 124-31. The 16th IPPA Congress, Melaka, Malaysia, July 1-8 1998. Available online: http://ejournal.anu.edu.au/index.php/bippa/
2000 "The Fate of Sacrifice and the Making of Wa History." Vols. I-II. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology and Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, 2000. UMI no. 9959092.
1999 “On the 'Raw' and the 'Cooked' Barbarians of Imperial China.” Inner Asia 1.2 (1999), 139–68.