Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation Turner Hannah
Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation Turner Hannah How does material culture become data? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for…
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Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation Turner Hannah
How does material culture become data? 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. Why does this matter, and for whom?
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 Using the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History as her reference, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over 200 years: field records, the ledger, the card catalogue, the punch card, and eventually the database.
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