CCT314H5 Lecture 4: WEEK 4 notes.docx
6 Feb 2015
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The poetics and politics of exhibiting other cultures. Ethnographic museums have to represent things by classifying things and through knowledge. The nature of museums: representation: collecting and uniting these extraordinary and varied articles be they naturally or artificially produced. This attempts to represent the diversity of existence in miniature microcosm: classification: museums work within a classificatory system which made a distinction between two types of objects artificial and natural, or mementoes or scientific. Ethnography refers to the research methods and texts that were linked with the human sciences of anthropology and ethnology (the science which considers races and people and their relationship to one another, their distinctive physical and other characteristics). Ethnographic museums produce certain kinds of representations and mobilize distinct classificatory systems which are framed by anthropological theory and ethnographic research. The photographs provided in the text makes it appear as a reflection of a certain society.
