Subject: RE: Museumizing the 'other'/'Native' as spectacle? 
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:11:42 +0200



Perhaps not as theoretical as you are looking for, but may be of use...

http://www.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/981016/ARTS47.html

http://web.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/950615/wm950615-12.html

http://web.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/951215/wm951215-23.html

http://web.sn.apc.org/wmail/issues/960202/wm960202-12.html





-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Schacht [mailto:mschacht-AT-mail.utexas.edu]
Sent: 10 October 2000 11:51
To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Subject: Museumizing the 'other'/'Native' as spectacle? 


Hello all,

Apologies for using this list to generate reading suggestions, but my 
library and journal searches haven't helped me very much so far... 
Apologies also if this is a bit vague; I'm trying to avoid lengthy 
summaries of my topic! Basically, I am looking for material on

* Generally, the role of the museum/the exhibit in colonialism, but in 
particular,

* The use of actual persons as exhibits and as spectacles - such as as 
Saartjie/Sara Baartman ("the Hottentot Venus") or Ishi ("the last wild 
Indian").

I've found a few articles (such as Haraway's article on the American
Museum 
of Natural History, and several on the individual cases I've mentioned)
but 
I'm having difficulty finding more theoretical material about the use of

"the native" as spectacle that would be useful in this context. I know
I've 
actually read some articles much like what I'm looking for, but can't
for 
the life of me remember where. (That'll teach me to keep better track of
my 
reading...)

Thanks for the help.

Miriam


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mschacht-AT-mail.utexas.edu  (Miriam Schacht)

Assistant Instructor, Dept. of English
University of Texas at Austin
Parlin 108, Campus Mail Code B5000
Austin, TX 78712




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