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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Museum narratives"”.
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A Paradigm Shift in African Cultural Exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History
As the National Museum, the Smithsonian Institution echoes American identity and promotes U.S. values. In a 1999 article, From Dioramas to Dialogics: A Century of Exhibiting African at the Smithsonian, anthropology curator, Mary Jo Arnoldi stated that the 1967 Cultures of Africa exhibit in the …
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Fight at the Museum: An Ethnographic Study Investigating Staff and Volunteers at WWII Museums and Memorials
<p>Museums are places where events of the past can be explained, appreciated, and understood. While efforts are often taken to provide a neutral position in the presentation of complicated and emotional historical events, there may exist external pressure to present a more overtly nationalist …
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Understanding and Telling Stories across Online and Real-world Cultural and Historical Artefacts
… way for humans to make sense of their world. Narratives structure experience into expected forms that improve understanding of relationships between discrete objects and events. This is the rationale behind museum curation, which organises objects in the physical museum space to reveal how …
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Relics of Battle: War, Memory, and New Museum Theory in Military Museums
<p>The anthropology of museums, or museum ethnography, is a useful tool for critically analyzing the representational strategies of museums and their collections. This thesis focuses on the anthropological discussion of military museums and analysis of the material culture of conflict, and …