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Cataloguing Culture
Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation
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"Turner’s work highlights important historical and contemporary considerations about a specific area of museological practice which has often been neglected in the field of museum studies and material culture."
» Heather George, University of Waterloo, Ontario Historical Society Review
How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations - much of it wrong. Les mer
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How does material culture become data? Why does this matter, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge, years of organizing, classifying, and cataloguing hardened into accepted categories, naming conventions, and tribal affiliations - much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism has operated through the technologies of museum bureaucracy: the ledger book, the card catalogue, and eventually the database. As Indigenous communities reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on the importance of documentation for access to and return of cultural heritage.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of British Columbia Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780774863933
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
- Priser
- The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize, Canadian Anthropology Society 2022
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"Turner’s work highlights important historical and contemporary considerations about a specific area of museological practice which has often been neglected in the field of museum studies and material culture."
» Heather George, University of Waterloo, Ontario Historical Society Review
«Turner has made an important contribution in reminding museum professionals and museum enthusiasts alike that institutional memory in all its physical forms can shape collective memory in unexpected ways: museum collections document not only the lives and cultures of their “subjects,” but also those of museum staff, whose interests and biases underlie even the most mundane of museological practices.»
Forrest Pass, Curator, Exhibitions and Online Content at Library and Archives Canada, The Ormsby Review
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