| Author | : Hannah Turner |
| File Size | : 41,5 Mb |
| Publisher | : UBC Press |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 15 July 2020 |
| ISBN | : 9780774863957 |
| Pages | : 261 pages |
Cataloguing Culture by Hannah Turner Book PDF Summary
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 has operated through the technologies of museum bureaucracy: the ledger book, the card catalogue, and eventually the database. As Indigenous communities reclaim what is theirs, this timely work shines a light on the importance of documentation for access to and return of cultural heritage.