I am also a grad student working on a study of museum representation of
Latin American culture (including indigenous communities). In addition to
the anthropology literature, there is a huge amount of information on the
evolving world of collecting and exhibition of art/artifacts/culture of
Indian and other non-western cultures.  Check out the books from the AAM for
a start.  (www.aam-us.org) A few off the top of my head are "Reflections of
a Culture Broker", by R. Kurin,  "Exhibiting Cultures" by Karp and Lavine,
and "Imagery and Creativity", by D. Whitten.  Also, The Smithsonian Museum
of the American Indian my have some literature. Their exhibits in New York
are totally aimed at reinterpreting exhibition of Indian art and culture.

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Hello:

This may be a question more appropriately asked on an anthropology list,
but maybe someone here can help.  I'm a graduate student, finishing my
master's thesis on a 19th century collection of Native American artifacts
at a local museum.  My advisor mentioned a relatively new "theory on
collecting", and couldn't remember any more details.  Does anyone here have
any ideas about what he means?  I'd gratefully appreciate any pointers to
articles or other suggestions, and would love to hear from anyone else here
who has an interest in the history and/or psychology of collecting.  Many
thanks!

Molly Carocci
History/Historical Archaeology Program
University of Massachusetts Boston
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