Ulteriori informazioni
In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy - the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database - operate through a colonial lens,
Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.
Sommario
Preface
Introduction: "The Making of Specimens Eloquent"
1 Writing Desiderata: Defining Evidence in the Field
2 On the Margins: Paper Systems of Classification
3 Ordering Devices and Indian Files: Cataloguing Ethnographic Specimens
4 Pragmatic Classification: The Routine Work of Description after 1950
5 Object, Specimen, Data: Computerization and the Legacy of Dirty Data
Conclusion: A Museum Data Legacy for the Future
Notes; Bibliography; Index
Info autore
Hannah Turner
Riassunto
In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.
