Author: Hannah Turner
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774863951
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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 operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over two hundred years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage.
Cataloguing Culture
Author: Hannah Turner
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774863951
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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 operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over two hundred years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage.
Publisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774863951
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
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 operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over two hundred years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage.
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Empire Society. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Colonial Institute
Author: Royal Commonwealth Society. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library, London
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library
Publisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Subject Index to the Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers [published 1895] ...
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...: H-Pa
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Catalogue of Current Periodicals Received at the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)
Publisher:
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Category : Australian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australian periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
The Geographical Journal
Author:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.