Professional minutia and their consequences: provenance, context, original identification, and anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

Belovari, Susanne

doi:10.1007/s10502-013-9202-0

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“…Acompañando a la idea de progreso en las ciencias, se terminó por consolidar la teoría de la Evolución Social que, en los EE.UU., tuvo como mejor representante a Lewis Morgan (Harris 1996;Huhndorf 2009;Trigger 2006). Dicha teoría social estuvo impregnada a lo largo de todo el planteamiento y materialización de la exposición de Chicago (Belovari 2013;Goode 1892;Nickliss 2018;Rydell 1984). Así, la WCE se convirtió en el espacio social en el que los visitantes comprobaban visual y materialmente la diferencia entre sociedades civilizadas-progresistas y sociedades salvajes-atrasadas.…”

Section: La Exposición Universal De Chicago Y Las Necrópolis De Ancónunclassified

Un encargo muy especial: George Dorsey, las necrópolis de Ancón y la Exposición Universal de Chicago de 1893

Tantaleán¹

2021

Latin Am. antiq.

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Se abordan las actividades arqueológicas que George Dorsey realizó en el Perú a finales del siglo diecinueve como comisionado del Departamento de Etnología de la Exposición Universal de Chicago de 1893. El objetivo principal de la comisión de Dorsey era realizar excavaciones arqueológicas y recolectar artefactos para su exhibición en dicha exposición universal. En especial se le encargó la excavación de tumbas en la necrópolis de Ancón, cuya metodología arqueológica e interpretaciones de los hallazgos se describen. Se explica el contexto histórico, institucional y personal en el cual Dorsey realizó sus actividades en el Perú y los EE.UU. Se concluye que sin entender el entramado social, económico, político e ideológico en el cual se encontraba inmerso Dorsey, no se puede comprender su rol en el surgimiento de la arqueología como disciplina científica a finales del siglo diecinueve.

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Un encargo muy especial: George Dorsey, las necrópolis de Ancón y la Exposición Universal de Chicago de 1893

Tantaleán¹

2021

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“…Yakel, 2001;Shankar, 2004;Valtonen, 2005;Foscarini, 2009). Belovari's (2013) work on how the professional practices of museum professionals can shape the public understanding of museum artefacts is illustrative of how also an archivist can actively shape the meaning and worth of archival records. Instead of conforming to the earlier ideal of being a neutral custodian of archival holdings, an archivist is endowed with inescapable agency.…”

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Another Wood Between the Worlds? Regimes of Worth and the Making of Meanings in the Work of Archivists

Huvila

2015

The Information Society

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The expectation that archives would function as the custodians of the longue durée of the society is paradoxical in its apparent simplicity. On the basis of an interview study of Nordic archives professionals, this article explores archives professionals experience and explicate the transformation and complexities of the worth and meaning of archival work and its major constituencies, the archival records. The analysis shows how the continuums of the worth and meaning of archival records and the work of archivists are constituted in a complex interplay of quasi--institutionalised orders of archival work, their associated but often conflicting regimes of worth and information, and similarly oscillating local intermediary practices.

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“…Given this shared legacy, it is striking that archival theory in the Derridean vein has not explicitly addressed the overlaps, disjunctures, and complementarities between the museum and the archive as institutions, an oversight this article confronts in hopes of bridging the realms of theory and practice. Since a simplistic separation between documents/archives (on the one hand) and objects/museums (on the other) cannot hold (Belovari 2013;Reed 2004;Schlak 2008), then the ways in which different organizational principles suited different institutional and disciplinary priorities still require further scrutiny. I suggest that historical practices of selecting, storing, and manipulating information, whether through paper-based or other material objects, developed in tandem as such practices filtered into and across museums, archives, and similar institutionalized and professionalized formations, such as the library and the public record office.…”

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The body in the box: archiving the Egyptian mummy

Riggs

2016

Arch Sci

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Linking the archive in its literal sense to the metaphorical repercussions of 'the archive' in a conceptual sense opens new lines of inquiry into the processes employed in museums to catalogue and store their objects. Archaeology-which was influential in Freud's theories of memory and Derrida's 'Freudian impression', Archive Fever-invites particular consideration in this respect, especially through the collection and interpretation of ancient Egyptian human remains. Embedded in colonial and imperial discourses of race, the Egyptian mummy confronted the West with the uncanny survival of what it had conceived as its near-double. The fates of two Egyptian bodies, a mummy dissected in the 1820s and a skeleton excavated in the 1920s, exemplify the archiving of these archaeological objects, whose multiple traces speak to what Derrida characterized as the archive's self-destructive drive, as its objects (and bodies) resist archival containment. This theoretical point encourages museums to intervene in and through their archives, for the creation of alternative histories and futures.

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Professional minutia and their consequences: provenance, context, original identification, and anthropology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois

Cited by 3 publications

References 22 publications

Un encargo muy especial: George Dorsey, las necrópolis de Ancón y la Exposición Universal de Chicago de 1893

Un encargo muy especial: George Dorsey, las necrópolis de Ancón y la Exposición Universal de Chicago de 1893

Another Wood Between the Worlds? Regimes of Worth and the Making of Meanings in the Work of Archivists

The body in the box: archiving the Egyptian mummy

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