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Collecting Contemporary Urban Culture: An Emerging Framework for the Field Museum
Author(s) -
Wali Alaka
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
museum anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1379
pISSN - 0892-8339
DOI - 10.1111/muan.12044
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , context (archaeology) , anthropology , sociology , urban culture , work (physics) , history , archaeology , social science , civil engineering , engineering , mechanical engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics
The article discusses a process and protocol for adding contemporary urban material culture to the Field Museum. The Field Museum is a natural history museum with significant anthropology collections that has experimented with exhibiting contemporary cultural themes but lacks a significant collection in this area. I argue that urban lifeways are an important area for collecting work and that building such a collection should be done within the parameters of anthropological theorizing on social life, material culture, and the urban context. [collections protocols, urban material culture, Field Museum]