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1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p105) : Next:131-291 | Prev:131-289
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Dr K Darian-Smith.
Prerequisite: Normally 25 points of first year history or cultural studies.
Contact: Two 1 hour lectures and a 1 hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completing this subject the student should be able to: understand the complexity of the ways, from the eighteenth century to the present, Western collecting institutions, scholarly disciplines, and public spectacles construct and exhibit histories and cultures; demonstrate an awareness of theoretical approaches to the display of societies and their material culture; analyse how collecting and exhibiting practices create and maintain ideologies of racial, class and gender differences; assess the relationship between exhibiting practices and historical consciousness.
Content:
This subject traces the historical development from the eighteenth century of Western practices of exhibiting familiar and non-familiar cultures, ranging from the public spectacles of monarchy to Empire expositions to state museums. It investigates the roles of emergent disciplines (e. g. ethnography) and technologies (eg. photography) in authorising and popularising exhibits of 'other' societies, particularly in the context of European colonialism; the cultural politics of collecting; and the concepts of tradition, heritage and nostalgia in public representations of the past. A range of visual and written texts, methodologies and theoretical frameworks will be examined.
Assessment:
An orally delivered class paper (10%); one 2,000 word investigative fieldwork project (30%); one 2,500 word research essay (60%).
Prescribed texts:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p105) : Next:131-291 | Prev:131-289
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p131) : Next:131-291 | Prev:131-289
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Dr K Darian-Smith.
Contact: Two 1 hour lectures and a 1 hour tutorial each week
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completing this subject the student should be able to: understand the complexity of the ways, from the eighteenth century to the present, Western collecting institutions, scholarly disciplines, and public spectacles construct and exhibit histories and cultures; demonstrate an awareness of theoretical approaches to the display of societies and their material culture; analyse how collecting and exhibiting practices create and maintain ideologies of racial, class and gender differences; assess the relationship between exhibiting practices and historical consciousness.
Content:
This subject traces the historical development from the eighteenth century of Western practices of exhibiting familiar and non-familiar cultures, ranging from the public spectacles of monarchy to Empire expositions to state museums. It investigates the roles of emergent disciplines (e. g. ethnography) and technologies (eg. photography) in authorising and popularising exhibits of 'other' societies, particularly in the context of European colonialism; the cultural politics of collecting; and the concepts of tradition, heritage and nostalgia in public representations of the past. A range of visual and written texts, methodologies and theoretical frameworks will be examined.
Assessment:
An orally delivered class paper (10 per cent); one 2000 word investigative fieldwork project (30 per cent); one 2500 word research essay (60 per cent).
Prescribed texts:
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2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p131) : Next:131-291 | Prev:131-289
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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