ANTH 100A Study Guide - Final Guide: Marcel Mauss, Museology, Barter
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Jennifer kramer used the term mobius museology to describe changing museum theory based on the new relationship between the museum of anthropology (moa) and the people whose cultures moa represents. Using professor kramer"s article and lecture, describe the idea of multiversity in relation to moa"s representation of cultural objects. Mobius museology blurs the lines between subject and object. It questions who is represented in front and beyond the glass, the audience. It changed the power of representation in a museum. Emphasizes objects not as objects but as belongings. The multiversity challenged traditional museum presentation by allowing the originating people to be included. It showed that there is more than one way of knowing things. Objects, despite being artifacts, were and are also important cultural components of people"s identities. And because they now reside with someone else, does not mean they lose their meaning.
