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UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Archives
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles Archives, Models, and Methods for Critical Approaches to Identities: Representing Race and Ethnicity in the Digital Humanities A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies by David J. Kim 2015 © Copyright by David J. Kim 2015 ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION Archives, Models, and Methods for Critical Approaches to Identities: Representing Race and Ethnicity in the Digital Humanities By David J. Kim Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies University of California, Los Angeles, 2015 Professor Johanna R. Drucker, Chair This dissertation addresses the cultural politics of representation in digital archives of various histories of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. It critiques the discourse of realism in both digital and archival representations of knowledge about minoritarian identities through case studies that explore the possibilities and the limitations of digital tools and platforms for the minoritarian critique of the archive as the all-encompassing site of knowledge. The first case study presents a digital 3D model of an East Los Angeles public housing complex famous for its numerous murals painted during the Chicana/o movement of the 1970s. Informed by the theorizations of identity formations as spatial practices, the 3D model functions as an immersive digital archive that documents the dialectics of the barrio as represented by the murals. The second case study reimagines the archive of Edward S. Curtis’s The North American Indian (1907- 1930), an influential yet controversial ethnographical work on the Native Americans in ii! ! the early twentieth century. It critiques the essentialism of this extensive work of photographic documentation by exploring the multi-modality and non-linearity of Scalar, a content management system developed by digital humanists, and through experimental network visualizations that expose the racial logic and the socio-cultural context of The North American Indian. -
Examination of Otis T. Mason's Standard of Authenticity| Salvage Ethnography and Indian Baskets at the Smithsonian Institution
University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers Graduate School 2002 Examination of Otis T. Mason's standard of authenticity| Salvage ethnography and Indian baskets at the Smithsonian Institution Zachary T. Androus The University of Montana Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Androus, Zachary T., "Examination of Otis T. Mason's standard of authenticity| Salvage ethnography and Indian baskets at the Smithsonian Institution" (2002). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 2282. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/etd/2282 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Maureen and Mike MANSFIELD LIBRARY The University of Montana Permission is granted by the author to reproduce this material in its entirety, provided that this material is used for scholarly purposes and is properly cited in published works and reports. **Please check "Yes" or "No" and provide signature** Yes, I grant permission __ No, I do not grant permission __ Author's Signature; Date: Any copying for commercial purposes or financial gain may be undertaken only with the author's explicit consent. 8/98 An Examination of Otis T. Mason’s Standard of Authenticity; Salvage Ethnography and Indian Baskets at the Smithsonian Institution by Zachary T. -
Franz Boas's Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”: the APS Archives And
Franz Boas’s Legacy of “Useful Knowledge”: The APS Archives and the Future of Americanist Anthropology1 REGNA DARNELL Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology University of Western Ontario t is a pleasure and privilege, though also somewhat intimidating, to address the assembled membership of the American Philosophical ISociety. Like the august founders under whose portraits we assemble, Members come to hear their peers share the results of their inquiries across the full range of the sciences and arenas of public affairs to which they have contributed “useful knowledge.” Prior to the profes- sionalization of science in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the boundaries between disciplines were far less significant than they are today. Those who were not experts in particular topics could rest assured that their peers were capable of assessing both the state of knowledge in each other’s fields and the implications for society. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington were all polymaths, covering what we now separate into several kinds of science, humanities, and social science in ways that crosscut one another and illustrate the permeability of disciplinary boundaries. The study of the American Indian is a piece of that multidisciplinary heri- tage that constituted the APS and continues to characterize its public persona. The Founding Members of the Society all had direct and seminal experience with the Indians and with the conflict between their traditional ways of life and the infringing world of settler colonialism. On the one hand, they felt justified in exploiting Native resources, as surveyors, treaty negotiators, and land speculators. On the other hand, the Indians represented the uniqueness of the Americas, of the New World that defined itself apart from the decadence of old Europe. -
The Legacy of the Late Edward Mippy: an Ethnographic Biography
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by espace@Curtin i Centre for Aboriginal Studies The Legacy of the Late Edward Mippy: An Ethnographic Biography Bernard Rooney This thesis is presented as part of the requirements for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy of the Curtin University of Technology March 2002 ii TO MY FRIEND THE LATE EDWARD “NED” MIPPY iii ABSTRACT Cast in the dual genre of ethnographic biography, this thesis is focused on the life, work and vision of the late Edward “Ned” Mippy, an Aboriginal Elder of the Yuat Nyoongara Community who devoted the latter years of his life to promoting and developing the cultural identity of his people. As biography, it portrays the life of Mr. Mippy with particular emphasis on the factors which help to highlight his understandings and his vision for an Indigenous cultural renewal. As ethnography, the study is intended as a vehicle for wider concerns, evoking an interpretative glimpse of his community and contributing a new perspective of that community as a continuing social entity. These aims are broadly set forth in the brief introduction. The first chapter of the thesis then outlines the origin and development of the research project and the evolution of its methodology. Chapter two presents a picture of Mr. Mippy’s life experience, largely in terms of his own recorded memories and perceptions, while chapter three places his later life in a community context which includes historical, personal and demographic perspectives. The following two chapters, four and five, present various accounts of the work undertaken by Edward Mippy. -
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes
WRITING ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDNOTES SECOND EDITION WRITING ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDNOTES SECOND EDITION Robert M. Emerson Rachel I. Fretz Linda L. Shaw THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS • CHICAGO AND LONDON robert m. emerson is professor emeritus in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Contemporary Field Research: Perspectives and Formulations, now in its second edition. rachel i. fretz is a lecturer in the Writing Programs unit at UCLA. linda l. shaw is professor in and chair of the sociology department at California State University, San Marcos. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1995, 2011 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2011. Printed in the United States of America 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 isbn- 13: 978-0-226-20683-7 (paper) isbn- 10: 0-226-20683-1 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging- in-Publication Data Emerson, Robert M. Writing ethnographic fi eldnotes / Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, Linda L. Shaw. — 2nd ed. p. cm. — (Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing) isbn- 13: 978-0-226-20683-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) isbn- 10: 0-226-20683-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Ethnology—Authorship. 2. Ethnology—Fieldwork. 3. Ethnology— Research. 4. Academic writing. I. Fretz, Rachel I. II. Shaw, Linda L. III. Title. gn307.7.e44 2011 808Ј.066305—dc22 2011016145 o This paper meets the requirements of ansi/ niso z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). To our friend and colleague, Mel Pollner -
Popular Music Studies and the Problems of Sound, Society and Method
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research CUNY Graduate Center 2013 Popular Music Studies and the Problems of Sound, Society and Method Eliot Bates CUNY Graduate Center How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_pubs/407 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] Popular Music Studies and the Problems of Sound, Society and Method Eliot Bates The University of Birmingham (UK) [email protected] Abstract Building on Philip Tagg’s timely intervention (2011), I investigate four things in relation to three dominant Anglophone popular music studies journals (Popular Music and Society, Popular Music, and the Journal of Popular Music Studies): 1) what interdisciplinarity or multidisciplinarity means within popular music studies, with a particular focus on the sites of research and the place of ethnographic and/or anthropological approaches; 2) the extent to which popular music studies has developed canonic scholarship, and the citation tendencies present within scholarship on both Western and non-Western popular musics; 3) the motivations for two scholarly groups, Dancecult and ASARP, to breakaway from popular music studies; 4) the forms of music analysis and the kinds of musical material commonly employed within popular music studies. I suggest that the field would greatly benefit from a true engagement with anthropological theories and methods, and that the “chaotic conceptualization” of musical structuration and the critical discourse would likewise benefit from an attention to recorded sound and production aesthetics. -
Ethnographic Realism and the Role of the Ethnologist of Religion
Nar. umjet. 42/1, 2005, pp. 125-142, G.-P. Šantek, Ethnographic Realism and the Role... Original scientific paper Received: 22nd Dec. 2004 Accepted: 25th Jan. 2005 UDK 39.01:23/28 GORAN-PAVEL ©ANTEK Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb ETHNOGRAPHIC REALISM AND THE ROLE OF THE ETHNOLOGIST OF RELIGION To my late teacher Dunja Rihtman-Auguštin On the basis of his own ethnographic experience in researching a particular religious movement, the author discusses the diverse contemporary concepts of field research and representations of field material. While not disputing the numerous advantages that they have brought to ethnography and its affirmation, their reverse side, possibly limiting to the ethnographer, is pointed out in the text. Going out into the field and entering into the social world of Others is stressed as being the fundamental ethnographic activity, which may, but need not, enable the uncovering of unknown processes of social life. Keywords: ethnographic realism, insider/outsider problem, ethnolo- gy of religion When one permits those whom one studies to define the terms in which they will be understood, suspends one's interest in the temporal and contingent, or fails to distinguish between "truths", "truth-claims", and "regimes of truth," one has ceased to function as historian or scholar. In that moment, a variety of roles are available: some perfectly respectable (amanuensis, collector, friend, and advocate), and some less appealing (cheerleader, voyeur, retailer of import goods). None, however, should be confused with scholarship (Lincoln 1996:227). The foundation for this paper is the personal, intensive experience of ethnographic research into a particular religious, Roman Catholic move- ment, initiated in Spain in 1964. -
Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic
JUSTIN IZZO EXPERI- MENTS WITH EMPIRE ANTHROPOLOGY AND FICTION IN THE FRENCH ATLANTIC JUSTIN IZZO hn hk io il sy SY ek eh fi fl ffi ffl Th hn hk io il sy SY ek eh fi fl ffi ffl Th hn hk io il sy SY ek eh fi fl ffi ffl Th hn hk io il sy SY ek eh fi fl ffi ffl Th hn hk io il sy SY ek eh fi fl ffi ffl Th hn hk io il sy SY ek eh fi fl ffi ffl Th experiments with empire theory in forms A Series Edited by Nancy Rose Hunt and Achille Mbembe Experiments with Empire Anthropology and Fiction in the French Atlantic justin izzo duke university press Durham and London 2019 © 2019 Duke University Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of Amer i ca on acid- free paper ∞ Designed by Matt Tauch Typeset in Minion Pro by Westchester Book Group Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Izzo, Justin, author. Title: Experiments with empire : anthropology and fiction in the French Atlantic / Justin Izzo. Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. | Series: Theory in forms | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2018042312 (print) | lccn 2018057191 (ebook) isbn 9781478004622 (ebook) isbn 9781478003700 (hardcover : alk. paper) isbn 9781478004004 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: French literature—20th century— History and criticism. | French fiction—French-speaking countries—History and criticism. | Ethnology in literature. | Imperialism in literature. | Imperialism in motion pictures. | Politics and literature— History— 20th century. | Literature and society—History— 20th century. Classification: lcc pq3897 (ebook) | lcc pq3897 .I98 2019 (print) | ddc 840.9/3552—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018042312 Cover art: Aerial View Of Cityscape Against Sky, Marseille, France. -
Society for Ethnomusicology Abstracts
Society for Ethnomusicology Abstracts Musicianship in Exile: Afghan Refugee Musicians in Finland Facets of the Film Score: Synergy, Psyche, and Studio Lari Aaltonen, University of Tampere Jessica Abbazio, University of Maryland, College Park My presentation deals with the professional Afghan refugee musicians in The study of film music is an emerging area of research in ethnomusicology. Finland. As a displaced music culture, the music of these refugees Seminal publications by Gorbman (1987) and others present the Hollywood immediately raises questions of diaspora and the changes of cultural and film score as narrator, the primary conveyance of the message in the filmic professional identity. I argue that the concepts of displacement and forced image. The synergistic relationship between film and image communicates a migration could function as a key to understanding musicianship on a wider meaning to the viewer that is unintelligible when one element is taken scale. Adelaida Reyes (1999) discusses similar ideas in her book Songs of the without the other. This panel seeks to enrich ethnomusicology by broadening Caged, Songs of the Free. Music and the Vietnamese Refugee Experience. By perspectives on film music in an exploration of films of four diverse types. interacting and conducting interviews with Afghan musicians in Finland, I Existing on a continuum of concrete to abstract, these papers evaluate the have been researching the change of the lives of these music professionals. communicative role of music in relation to filmic image. The first paper The change takes place in a musical environment which is if not hostile, at presents iconic Hollywood Western films from the studio era, assessing the least unresponsive towards their music culture. -
Nelson, Gillian (2010) a Century of Covert Ethnography in Britain, C.1880 - C.1980
Nelson, Gillian (2010) A century of covert ethnography in Britain, c.1880 - c.1980. PhD thesis. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2163/ Copyright and moral rights for this thesis are retained by the author A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the Author The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the Author When referring to this work, full bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Glasgow Theses Service http://theses.gla.ac.uk/ [email protected] A Century of Covert Ethnography in Britain, c.1880 – c.1980 Gillian Louise Nelson Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctorate of Philosophy Department of Economic and Social History Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences University of Glasgow March 2010 Cover image reproduced from: http://revengelit.blogspot.com/2009/06/masquerade.html [accessed 9th March 2010]. Abstract The purpose of this thesis is to explore the history of covert ethnography in Britain between the 1880s and 1980. During this century, a range of academic and non-academic social researchers have used the method of covert ethnography. The starting point for this thesis is the observation that there is no adequate and sustained explanation of covert ethnography as a historical phenomenon. It is argued that the fragmented nature of the existing historiography precludes a full understanding of this important historical phenomenon. -
Are No Longer So Certain. Much of Current Anthropological Research Is
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NATIVE AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHIES AND LIFE HISTORIES Allen G. Pastron University of California, Berkeley During the past decade, a significant crisis of confidence has been steadily developing within the field of anthropology. Many anthropologists, particularly the younger members of the profession, have become increasingly distressed by what is felt to be a distinct lack of humanistically oriented or socially relevant research in many contemporary programs of study. Whereas once most anthropologists were of an accord that our profession represented the most humanistic and socially progressive aspects of the social sciences, today many of us are no longer so certain. Much of current anthropological research is so directed toward statistical analysis and the mathematical parameters that have been outlined by the mechanical computations of computers, that a human essence can often only barely be detected. While such innovations have their place in the social sciences as elsewhere, many anthropologists are beginning to re-evaluate the moral and aesthetic price that the discipline must pay to attain such "'modernization". As a result, a large number of scholars have recently been consciously attempting to employ research strategies and methods which they hope will help to restore man to a position of prominence within the study of Man. 144 The recording of the autobiographical life histories of selected informants as an ethnographic tool provides a number of benefits to anthropological research. The use of life history offers the field researcher the opportunity to combine the collection of reliable ethnographic data with an unmistakably humanistic orientation. Further, the narrator is allowed to interpret his own culture without the necessity of a middleman, in this case the social scientist. -
Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology
AN39CH20-Samuels ARI 13 August 2010 18:8 Soundscapes: Toward a Sounded Anthropology David W. Samuels,1 Louise Meintjes,2 Ana Maria Ochoa,3 and Thomas Porcello4 1Department of Music, New York University, New York, NY 10003; email: [email protected] 2Departments of Music and Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0665; email: [email protected] 3Department of Music, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027; email: [email protected] 4Department of Anthropology, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604; email: [email protected] Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2010. 39:329–45 Key Words First published online as a Review in Advance on aurality, film sound, listening, music, recording technology, sound art June 21, 2010 The Annual Review of Anthropology is online at Abstract anthro.annualreviews.org A generation of scholars in multiple disciplines has investigated sound in This article’s doi: ways that are productive for anthropologists. We introduce the concept Access provided by Duke University on 06/05/16. For personal use only. 10.1146/annurev-anthro-022510-132230 of soundscape as a modality for integrating this work into an anthropo- Copyright c 2010 by Annual Reviews. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2010.39:329-345. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org logical approach. We trace its history as a response to the technological All rights reserved mediations and listening practices emergent in modernity and note its 0084-6570/10/1021-0329$20.00 absence in the anthropological literature. We then trace the history of technology that gave rise to anthropological recording practices, film sound techniques, and experimental sound art, noting productive inter- weavings of these threads.