Research

Publications
Lawson, B. (2005) Review of PACIFIC TAPA by Roger Neich and Mick Pendergrast, for Pacific Affairs, v. 78, n. 3, pp. 522-23.

Lawson, B. (2005) Collecting Cultures: Canadian Missionaries, Pacific Islanders and Museums, in CANADIAN MISSIONARIES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: REPRESENTING RELIGION AT HOME AND ABROAD, edited by A. Austin and J. Scott. University of Toronto Press, pp. 235-61.

 

  Lawson, B. (2004) Review of CLOTHING THE PACIFIC edited by Chloë Colchester, for the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, v. 10, n. 3, pp. 717-18.
Lawson, B. (2004) Review of TOWARD A GEOGRAPHY OF ART by Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann, for MUSE, v. xxii, n. 6, p. 46.  
  Lawson, B. (2002) Review essay: ACADEMIC ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE MUSEUM: BACK TO THE FUTURE edited by Mary Bouquet, for Anthropologica, v. 44 n. 2, pp. 312-14.
Lawson, B. (2001) 'Clothed and in their right mind': Women's Dress on Erromango, Vanuatu. Pacific Arts, v. 23/24, pp. 69-86.

Lawson, B. (1999) From curio to cultural document, in MUSEUMS AND THE FUTURE OF COLLECTING edited by Simon Knell. Aldershot (UK): Ashgate Publishing, pp. 63-72.

 

Lawson, B. (1999) Exhibiting agendas: anthropology at the Redpath Museum (1882-1899). Anthropologica (Canadian Anthropology Society), v. XLI, n. 1, pp. 53-65.
  Lawson, B. (1997) Review of MUSEUMS AND THE MAKING OF OURSELVES: THE ROLE OF OBJECTS IN NATIONAL IDENTITY edited by Flora E.S. Kaplan, for Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, v. 34, n. 1, pp. 110-12.  
  Lawson, B. (1995) (Horne, P.; Lawson, B.; and Aufderheide, A.) Examination of the Guanche mummy RED-1. PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST WORLD CONGRESS ON MUMMY STUDIES, TENERIFE, 1992, (2 vols.), v. I, pp. 135-40.
Lawson, B. (1994) Missionaries, material culture collecting, and nineteenth-century representations in the New Hebrides [Vanuatu]. Museum Anthropology (American Anthropological Association), v. 18, n. 1, pp. 21-38.
Lawson, B. (1994) Collected Curios: Missionary Tales from the South Seas. (A study of 19th century representations, missionization, and material culture collecting in the New Hebrides [Vanuatu]. Montreal: McGill, 313 p.
Lawson, B. (1994) (Bisson, M., Lawson, B.; and Trigger, B.G.) Excavating collections: archaeological finds at the Redpath Museum. Fontanus, v. 7, pp. 53-71.
  Lawson, B. (1993) Recension de EXHIBITING CULTURES, I. Karp and S. Lavine, éditeurs, Culture (Canadian Anthropology Society), v. 13, n. 1, pp. 79-82.  
Lawson, B. (1991) (Virr, R.; Lawson, B.; Woloch, G.M.; and Shlosser, F.) The McGill University Collection of Greek and Roman Coins: new evidence for its history. Fontanus, v. 4, pp. 109-24.