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 Colonial Museum Library. Second Edition
Author: Dominion Museum (N.Z.)
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library, London
Author: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 872
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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:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: A-H
Author: Dennis O'Donovan
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
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Subject-index of the Books in the Author Catalogues for the Years 1869-1895
Author: Public Library of New South Wales. Reference Dept
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Geographical Society
Author: Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 854
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Report of the State Librarian
Author: Pennsylvania State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Includes catalogs of accessions and special bibliographical supplements.
A Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple
Author: Middle Temple (London, England). Library
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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