ANTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Diorama, Disneyfication, Emic And Etic
8 Aug 2016
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How we deal with objects is culturally and historically specific. Consider contexts, how museums are different for collecting places. ordering objects. By knowing the world, you have control over the world. Museums seek to freeze time- treating objects like it is frozen in time by preserving them. (they fight nature in order to slow down the effects of time) Any culturally or historically important object is in a museum. Valuable things get into the museum- evaluated by museum professionals. Values are manufactured and distributed to society in museums. Board of trustees- tell the community what is worth remembering and thinking about and what is worth forgetting. A place where knowledge is stored(container of knowledge)-ann laura stoler. By selectively choosing what we store in an archive, we shape history. It stores knowledge to share with the public. Museums are produced by and embedded in a given culture. Selectively producing certain aspects of history to preserve.
