Anthropological Museums Flashcards
1
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How do cloud infrastructures have high carbon footprints?
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- Energy for computers
- Energy for servers (e.g. Google)
- e-waste
2
Q
What does Walter Benjamin argue through his ‘Angel of History’?
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Progress piles up, making the present a continuous history
3
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What does Alison Griffiths (2002) argue about World Fairs in ‘Wondrous Difference’?
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- World’s Fairs are sites of negotiation between “anthropology, popular culture, and commerce”
- They aim at “education, spectacle, and profit”
4
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What does Alisa Griffiths (2002) argue about Natural History Museums in ‘Wondrous Difference’?
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- Negotiation between their civic mission and the economic market
- Demands of scientific seriousness are conflicting with demands of popular spectacle
5
Q
How do Byrne and colleagues describe museum collections, objects, their staff, and visitors?
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As part of a “complex network of agency”
6
Q
What does Haidy Geismar refer to by the “contact zone” in ‘Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age’ (2018)?
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- Multiple communities drawn together, within unequal power relations, around museum collections
- Old collections with new technology
- Representational practices of classification and recognition
7
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What are the key moments in the history of Anthropology as observable in museums?
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- Anthropology’s first institutional homes
- Evolutionary discourses
- Salvage Anthropology
- Colonial expansion
- Exhibition technology, ‘reality effects’, immersive displays
(taxidermied bodies in display until 1970s)
