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January 24, 2012 by tyler

The Difficulties of Hybridity

James Clifford’s “Museums as Contact Zones” provides fantastic contextualization of the museum:  caught up in ongoing and active process of “imagining” culture (to borrow from Benedict Anderson) and all the messy issues that go along with such a process.  Two of the most salient points from this reading for me are the ways in which […]

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January 24, 2012 by claude

Publicity and the museum

Brown, Michael F. (2009) Exhibiting Indigenous Heritage in the Age of Cultural Property. In Whose Culture? In J.Cuno (Ed.) The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities (pp. 145-164). Princeton: Princeton University Press. I align myself with most of Brown’s positions in this essay. In particular, Brown remarks that vested interest or conflicts can […]

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January 17, 2012 by tyler

Fostering Dialogue and Discussion

Peter Walsh’s “The Web and the Unassailable Voice” presents an interesting forward-looking view of the web, considering it was written close to 15 years ago.  Walsh describes a plan to encourage discussion about a newly acquired Ashanti seat for the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College across the campus network. “Through the network, […]