Saturday, October 4, 2008
Collecting histories for getting recognised
GETTING RECOGNIZED Wade Black and Robert Thrower Co-Producers Summary: "Getting recognized" is a complex process for Native American individuals and for tribal governing bodies, poorly understood by the non-Native community, and a continuing source of tension between Native Americans and the broader...
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Collecting histories to put together a film for recognition of tribals
GETTING RECOGNIZED Wade Black and Robert Thrower Co-Producers Summary: "Getting recognized" is a complex process for Native American individuals and for tribal governing bodies, poorly understood by the non-Native community, and a continuing source of tension between Native Americans and the broader...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Collecting experiences of women!
SPARROW today has a rich and varied holding - oral history recordings, films and documentaries, music records, photographs, advertisements, books, journals, newspaper articles and cartoons, posters, brochures, personal diaries, letters and other memorabilia that runs into thousands, and is...
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Someone asked me whether I am collecting contexts or contextualising
collections. And that stimulated me to think that there is also something - what figure of speech is that where you can reverse the words like the above - where the noun becomes the verb and vice-versa.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
And now a collection of agricultural implements...
Victor Hugo Gomes from Goa is collecting agricultural implements from Goa's past, part of his plan to launch a museum as an ode to Goa's agriculture. Worthwhile given that this rich agriculture is hidden or sometimes crushed under the tourism carpet. Anyone know of another museum like this anywhere...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
Which customs are "interesting"? Indeed that's a blogger's fitting
challenge to me to fit within the frame-work of my blog. What's interesting? Needs to eb contextualised, So collections are not without their prejudices or affirmations. IS an interesting marriage custom about a marriage cutom that's different from what is usual to us? Is interesting about being...
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Sunday, June 8, 2008
Collecting marriage customs
I know a friend who is making a collection of marriage customs the world over and I found that interesting, but I also felt we can unwittingly get into the dangerous mode of comparing customs unrealistically without having the background in which they are based. And we'll end up sitting in judgement...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Seeds as inspirations for collections
Editormum's blog seeds today inspired me to think beyond the usual collections or even beyond the extraordinary collections I have known One seed was Paraclete and I realised that was an expression in the Bible meaning the Holy Spirit. And I thought of a book I had bought called all the Women in the...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Skulls Unlimited...
Friends, There's actually a newsletter called Skulls Unlimited and it looks like people get into this collection after seeing its utility for science students and researchers. Read below an excerpt: http://www.skullsunlimited.com/newsletter/july-august2007/newsletter-index.html Skulls Unlimited...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008
Any suggestions about links of consultative processes in decision-making?
I have a friend who is collecting narrrations of consultative processes employed by Governments at whatever levels to arrive at decisions on whatever. Any suggestions from bloggers about links in this regard? Or maybe you can narrate your own experiences or anecdotes about attempted consultative...
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