Dr Sally K. May 
Bachelor of Arts (First Class Honours) Flinders
Doctor of Philosophy ANU
ARC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Griffith
Email: sally.may@flinders.edu.au
Research Interests
- Indigenous archaeology
- Rock art studies
- Archaeology of art
- Museology
- Ethnography and ethnoarchaeology
- Cross-cultural encounters
- Anthropology of collecting
Recent Publications
Forthcoming
Fiore, Danae, Sally K May and Ines Domingo Sanz (eds) (In Press) Archaeologies of Art: Time, Place and Identity. California: Left Coast Press.
Selected
May, Sally K (In Preparation) Injalak: rock art from western Arnhem Land, Green Poles Design, Melbourne (due for publication August 2007).
May, Sally K (In Preparation) Collecting Indigenous Cultures: The Myth, Politics, and Collaboration in Colonial Ethnographic Collections, California: AltaMira (due for publication July 2007).
May, Sally K (In Press) Charles Pearcy Mountford and the Art of Collecting, in Peterson, Nicholas, The Makers and Making of Museum Collections. Melbourne: Melbourne Museum (due for publication April 2007).
May, Sally K 2006 Capturing the Rainbow Snake, Dig Magazine, Peterborough, NH: Carus Publishing Company, pp. 16-19.
May, Sally K, Murphy, Anthony and Garde, Murray with Thompson Yulidjirri, Bruce Nabegeyo, Garnbaladj Nabegeyo, and Jill Nganjmirra 2005 Some Baskets are Special Ones, in Hamby, Louise (ed)Twined Together, Melbourne Museum, Victoria. (PDF)
May, Sally K 2005 Collecting the Last Frontier, in Hamby, Louise (ed) Twined Together, Melbourne Museum, Victoria .
May, Sally K 2005 Injalak Arts and Crafts: A Brief History, in Hamby, Louise (ed) Twined Together, Melbourne Museum, Victoria. (PDF)
May, Sally K with Donald Gumurdul, Jacob Manakgu, Gabriel Maralngurra and Wilfred Nawirridj 2005 'You Write it Down and Bring it Back, That's What We Want' Revisiting The 1948 Removal Of Human Remains From Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), Australia, in Smith, Claire & Wobst, Martin, H. (eds)Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology. London: Routledge.
May, Sally K. 2003 Colonial Collections of Portable Art and Intercultural Encounters in Aboriginal Australia, in Faulstich, Paul, Ouzman, Sven, and Tacon, Paul (eds), Before Farming: the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers, California: Altamira Press 1, 8, pp.1-17. (PDF)
Richards, Nathan and Sally K May 2003 South Australia's Floating Coffin: the diseased, the destitute, and the derelict Fitzjames (1852-c.1900), The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History, vol.25, 1, pp. 20-39. (PDF)
Theses
May, Sally K 2000 The Last Frontier? Acquiring the American-Australian Scientific Expedition Ethnographic Collection 1948 (PDF), Unpublished B.A. (Honours) Thesis, Flinders University of South Australia.
May, Sally K 2005 Karrikadjurren Creating Community with an Art Centre in Indigenous Australia, Unpublished PhD Thesis, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University.
Full List (PDF)
Current Projects
Currently Teaching
In 2008, Sally is teaching the Rock Art Field School in Arnhem Land from 10 - 22 July; visit the website for the ARCH3307: Rock Art Field School for more details.
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