Notice catalographique « Cataloguing culture : legacies of colonialism in museum documentation »
- Titre
- Cataloguing culture : legacies of colonialism in museum documentation
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Turner, Hannah, 1986-
- Lieu de publication
- Vancouver, BC
- Maison d'édition
- UBC Press
- Date de publication
- 2020
- Collation
- xiii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Résumé
- 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 200 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.
- Table des matières
- Introduction: "The making of specimens eloquent" -- Writing desiderata : defining evidence in the field -- On the margins : paper systems of classification -- Ordering devices and Indian files : cataloguing ethnographic specimens -- Pragmatic classification : the routine work of description after 1950 -- Object, specimen, data : computerization and the legacy of dirty data -- Conclusion: A museum data legacy for the future.
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- Sujet
- Cataloging of archival materials - Case studies
- Cataloging of special collections in libraries - Case studies
- Museums - Collection management - Case studies
- Ethnological museums and collections - Case studies
- Indigenous peoples - Material culture - Case studies
- Museums and Indigenous peoples - Case studies
- Reconciliation
- Catalogage - Archives - Études de cas
- Catalogage - Fonds spéciaux - Études de cas
- Musées - Gestion des collections - Études de cas
- Ethnologie - Musées et collections - Études de cas
- Autochtones - Culture matérielle - Études de cas
- Musées et autochtones - Études de cas
- Réconciliation
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780774863933
- Pays
- Canada
- Type de document
- Monograph = Monographie
- Localisation
- GN 406 T87 2020
- Clé
- 19178
- Collection
- Catalogue