Cataloguing culture
type: CreativeWork
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  alternate name: Musées et Indiens d'Amérique
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  alternate name: Indians of North America--Material culture
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  alternate name: Indiens d'Amérique--Culture matérielle
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  alternate name: Museums and Indians
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  alternate name: Catalogage--Archives--Études de cas
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  alternate name: Ethnological museums and collections
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  alternate name: Cataloging of archival materials--Case studies
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  alternate name: Ethnologie--Musées et collections--Études de cas
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  alternate name: Museums--Collection management
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  alternate name: Catalogage--Fonds spéciaux
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  alternate name: Museums--Collection management
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  alternate name: Cataloging of special collections in libraries
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  alternate name: Musées--Gestion des collections
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126573
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127663
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128206
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130256
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320130541
abstract: "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."--
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310208810
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: 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.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301309053

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