{"product_id":"cataloguing-culture-9780774863933","title":"Cataloguing Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, \u003cem\u003eCataloguing Culture\u003c\/em\u003e shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Turner’s work highlights important historical and contemporary considerations about a specific area of museological practice which has often been neglected in the field of museum studies and material culture.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Heather George, University of Waterloo * Ontario Historical Society Review *\u003cbr\u003eTurner has made an important contribution in reminding museum professionals and museum enthusiasts alike that institutional memory in all its physical forms can shape collective memory in unexpected ways: museum collections document not only the lives and cultures of their “subjects,” but also those of museum staff, whose interests and biases underlie even the most mundane of museological practices. -- Forrest Pass, Curator, Exhibitions and Online Content at Library and Archives Canada * The Ormsby Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: “The Making of Specimens Eloquent”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Writing Desiderata: Defining Evidence in the Field\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 On the Margins: Paper Systems of Classification\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Ordering Devices and Indian Files: Cataloguing Ethnographic Specimens\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Pragmatic Classification: The Routine Work of Description after 1950\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Object, Specimen, Data: Computerization and the Legacy of Dirty Data\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: A Museum Data Legacy for the Future\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes; Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404945727831,"sku":"9780774863933","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774863933.jpg?v=1730488146","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cataloguing-culture-9780774863933","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}