NAT 105 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Salvage Ethnography, Native American Graves Protection And Repatriation Act, Wampum

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Native American Studies
• Course: NAT 105
• Professor: Doctor Stevens

Document Summary

Na graves protection and repatriation act of 1990. This act was to say museums are under pressure to reevaluate their displays and see if they are culturally sensitive and need to be returned to their home , to their nation. All us federally run museums except smithsonian. Those things produced, if they could speak they would have a history to tell. 3d objects and things that symbolize your culture. Process and goal for settler people, process of ridding yourself even when colonized. Saving what is left of an ethnic group (nadir period), saving ethnic stuff to a specific group. When an artifact ends up very far away from their culture because of because of salvage ethnography. Not just surviving but resisting as well, fighting for survival. Ex: someone non-native trying to wipe out your culture that takes. Start out with people collecting interesting stuff, birth of museums, no themes just. Thing: very broad, ex; love, physical things, table.