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Cataloguing Culture : Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (261 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774863940
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 069/.4
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Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Writing Desiderata -- 2 On the Margins -- 3 Ordering Devices and Indian Files -- 4 Pragmatic Classification -- 5 Object, Specimen, Data -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy - the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database - operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.
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Cover -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Writing Desiderata -- 2 On the Margins -- 3 Ordering Devices and Indian Files -- 4 Pragmatic Classification -- 5 Object, Specimen, Data -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy - the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database - operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.

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