Ivan Karp Archive Launched
By Corinne A. Kratz, Emory University
Emory University recently launched an online archive of Ivan Karp’s published papers in order to keep his work widely available (See obituary on this page). Karp was a leading scholar of African studies, museum and heritage studies, and social theory who began doing research in Kenya in 1969. Plans are under way for his unpublished papers to be deposited with the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian Institution.
The new online archive includes complete lists of Karp’s books and of the works published in the book series for which he served as editor: the African Systems of Thought series at Indiana University Press and the Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry at Smithsonian Institution Press. Downloadable links to Karp’s published papers are an important feature of the archive, which also includes video clips from his presentations and audio from the memorial held in his honor at the National Museum of African Art in November 2011. The archive can be found online at http://international.emory.edu/karp_archive/.