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Re: Differentiating Dioramas
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"MARY S. MCCUTCHEON" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:
Fri, 7 Feb 1997 09:42:58 -0500
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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Fielding S Freed wrote:

>         My questions are:What do YOU call dioramas that incorporate
> human beings?


The recreation of contextualized activity and object use areas in
ethnology museums with models of people doing things was called the "life
group" by Franz Boas.  Read about this in Stockings book Objects and
Others.

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