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43 Cards in this Set
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What is the connection b/w language and power?
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Language holds the power to name- can be negative or positive
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What is the role of language and imagery in forming prevailing notions about indigenous peoples in the Americas?
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Thomas: Cannibals- reinforcing stereotypes (brutal-Carib/ peaceful-Arawak indians)
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what is the connection b/w naming and museums?
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museums give names to exhibits, titles set tone on how exhibit is interpreted.
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Colonialism:
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the control/governing influence of a nation over a dependent country/ territory
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Eurocentrism:
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Europe/ Europeans as focal to world culture/ history
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Fierce cannibal (Bloodthirsty savage):
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Carib, named by Columbus. tool used by Euroamerican's that would define and control Indian people
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Noble savage:
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peaceful Armarks names by Columbus.
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How can the concept of ideology help us think about museums?
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The act of collecting and putting artifacts into one space is the act of ideology
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How are museums and ideology related?
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Museums display specific ideologies
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What has shaped our expectations about Native Americans in the U.S.?
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media, history, experiences
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How do museums contribute?
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they draw on resources of public culture and popular imagery to produce their effects.
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What is "museum perspective" according to Karp?
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the museums perspective of how to display an exhibit
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What is a "contact zone" according to Clifford?
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1. Space of colonial encounters
2. co-presence/ interaction of peoples and things that are usually far apart 3. ongoing relations usually of inequality power imbalance- coercion conflict |
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other:
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Karp-374: "generalized artifact of the colonial and imperial encounter"
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stereotype:
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simplified or generalized expectation
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ideology:
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an assertion that is at once correct and incorrect. engage the contradictions of the world and construct of them (content)meaningful systems of belief, held by all manner of people across the spectrum of a society.
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discourse:
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practices- the chuckle itself- while ideology helps us understand the content of those practices
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What did the imagery and narrative of these forms of display communicate?
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the exhibitions were used as a commodity and less for science purposes( the midway) they misrepresented the cultures
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commoditization:
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form of commodity; something of use, advantage or value
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What kinds of purposes did early museums serve?
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to provide windows on the other cultures of the world
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Who owned them and who could visit them?
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collected and displayed by the wealthy, the powerful, and the scholarly either in special rooms or in "curiosity cabinets"
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deconstruction:
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one strand of the late-20th-century challenges to the story of progress consists of efforts to "deconstruct" it- by showing that these esentialized and naturalized categories are historically contingent, changing over time and w/context.
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people without history:
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w/o literacy, a people could not enter a history, couldn't document it, therefore they couldn't be examined, thus they did not live in history
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"progress"
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the notion of the human past as a continuous multistep progression leading up to the present
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teleological:
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the belief that purpose and design are a part of, or are apparent in nature.
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to "museumify" other cultures:
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we exercise control over them
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What were some of the impacts of collecting practices for museums and source communities?
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object info, space availability, need to attract crowds, available materials and media, money
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Who was out collecting objects, and why? What motivated them?
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Jacobsen and Adolf Bastian was collecting objects to make his collection the largest ethnological collection of his day. motivated by the desire to restore these fragments to a lost whole(a particular image of that culture). Dawson, Boaz, Hunt, Newcombe, Nowell,
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How did they view these objects, classify them?
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artificial curiosities: , relics: odd objects with forgotten meanings, artifacts: evidence used to reconstruct history for mankind
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Which objects did they value most, why?
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Kwakwaka'wakw artifacts
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Why did they go where they did to collect?
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Fort Rupert, Alert Bay
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How did they collect?
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systematic collection
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What influenced their object selection?
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" good/ old" material along with texts. Authenticity
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3 types of display
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typological (systematic), life group, culture are (geographic)
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cultural relativism:
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cultures are integrated wholes, whats weird to us is the norm for other cultures. (Boas)
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unilinear evolution:
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one-line evolution
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appropriation:
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suitable for a particular purpose
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Emic:
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pertaining to or being a significant unit
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etic:
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being the raw data
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what makes an artifact or work of art authentic?
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identity of creator, purpose of creation, commercial or non-commercial, materials its made from
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what would make an artifact inauthentic?
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use or production
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aestetic cues that distinguish b/w art or artifact?
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art: aesthitic pleasure, skill, admired
artifact: function, use value, real power |
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hegemony:
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predominant influence of one nation over another
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