HISTART 406 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ivan Karp, Ethnology
9 Oct 2018
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The sources of power are derived from the capacity of cultural institutions to classify and define peoples and societies. This is the power to represent; to reproduce structures of belief and experiences through which cultural differences are understood - ivan karp. Museums say that exhibitions are based off of the latest cultural knowledge, but in most large museums permanent exhibits remain on view for several generations i. lack of money, staff, or the will to change: the smithsonian. Over the last hundred years there have only been two permanent exhibits which featured african objects at the museum of natural history criticism with a group of professional africanists - letter writing and media campaign. Gustav klemm"s method - based in the natural sciences, demanded that a subject be analyzed in all its developmental variety and from these particulars the larger historical picture. Otis t. mason - invention, biologically inspired belief in the underlying unity of all objects.
