Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2062829
Marla R. Miller, Karen Sánchez-Eppler
ABSTRACT In 1752, on land cultivated by Nonotuck and other Indigenous people for millennia, Moses and Elizabeth Porter established a farmstead along the Connecticut River in Western Massachusetts. This property remained in the family for 200 years, becoming a museum in 1949. A traditional historic house museum for decades, more recently the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum has shifted focus to the site’s enslaved, indigenous, and hired laborers. More inclusive storytelling is necessary, but the museum also seeks more direct impacts. In spring 2021 the museum collaborated on a Reparative Farming project enabling Somali refugees to grow their own crops. The museum plans to expand this pilot-project into a permanent program for communities of color – enacting links between racial and environmental justice. This co-authored provocation situates this fledgling project within larger interpretive genealogies, suggesting ways small museums can begin to confront the histories of colonization, enslavement, and displacement they narrate.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2022.2083356
T. Bangstad
ABSTRACT This article explores what repair might mean in the context of enduring toxic legacies of past museum practice. For centuries, museums have applied a wide range of pesticidal and preservative chemicals on objects to prevent insect infestation and material decay. This paper theorizes such chemicals as a significant museum technology which aided the perpetuation of museum objects, and both responded to and facilitated further growth of colonial collections in European museums. The case study examines both past practices of pesticide treatment in ethnographic museums and their effects on the repatriation of Sámi cultural artefacts today.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-4-1-2
Ross Perlin, Nawang Gurung, S. Craig, Maya Daurio, Daniel Kaufman, Mark Turin
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Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-4-1-5
Öznur Şahin
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Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-4-1-3
Glen Finau, Jason Titifanue, Romitesh Kant, S. Vunibola, G. Presterudstuen, H. Horst
This essay explores the emergence of the BFBF and how this online group made ‘bartering’ and other practices of exchange central to surviving Covid-19. We analyse the posts and discussions of BFBF participants in 2020. We are interested in the way moderators and participants position this contemporary way of conducting bartering as an alternative to market trade that has deep cultural roots in Fiji. Such forms of exchange have serious implications for the study of digital practices and relational systems of exchange in Fiji and beyond.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-4-1-1
A. Mol
The tangible stuff that litters the streets of Amsterdam stirs up something rather less tangible. An ethos, a spirit: blame. Here an attempt to trace it ethnographically, with a focus on a particular kind of trash: cardboard boxes.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-22DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-4-1-4
Sharon Inone, Geoffrey Hobbis, S. Hobbis
Smartphones are everywhere from the urban jungles of Tokyo (Ito, Okabe and Matsuda 2006) to the jungles of Solomon Islands (Hobbis 2020), the focus of this essay. In this set of small islands in the southwestern Pacific, over 80 percent of the population continue to live as largely rural subsistence horticulturalists and fisherfolk. Despite their global prevalence, use of smartphones varies and “particular cultures can foster different patterns of use” (Tenhunen 2018, 5). In different places smartphones are distinctly entangled with material cultures and techniques, skills, and systems of verbal and non-verbal knowledge, including knowledge on how to obtain, use, maintain and discard them. The combination of global ubiquity and differentiated practices means smartphone use necessitates in-depth ethnographic study.
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.51142/issues-journal-3-1
M. Robert, Van Slyke, Ms '77 President
From the HA Alumni President— It is a pleasure to introduce the latest edition of the HA NEWS. I hope that you and your families had an opportunity for a restful vacation this summer. Let's hope and pray for rain and cool Fall temperatures. As members of the HA Alumni Association , we can all look back to the opportunities we had at SWT to further our education. But, we also realize that our world is rapidly changing, and for those of us who graduated in the early days of the program, many things have changed. We are in an exciting and rewarding profession , but we must continue learning in order to be effective healthcare leaders. Whether we are members of ACHE, HFMA, MGMA, or some other professional society, continuing education is vital. We are constantly bombarded with new information through journals, e-mail, newsletters, and every other medium. Our professional societies can help us sort through all the information and focus where we need to be. Continuing education also includes networking with other professionals. Again, our professionalal societies are a good source for networking. Networking with other professionals offers a rich resource of new ideas, affirmation of current thoughts and practices, and encouragement in these challenging times. Like most of you, I can point to several individuals in my career who helped me learn and grow as a professional. Networking with a mentor, both inside and outside my organization, has been invaluable. I consider it a honor today whn given the opportunity to serve as a mentor to any of the bright and eager young people who have chosen our profession. Perhaps it is a way of saying thanks to all those who have helped me over the years. We have all received a good start (or perhaps jump-start!) in our careers by our graduation from the HA program at SWT. Let's continue to build on that education through continuous learning, networking, and mentoring to those who will follow us. Finally, I wish you and your families a successful year ahead and congratulations to our 2000 Outstanding Alumnae—the Van Slykes!
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Pub Date : 2019-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15596893.2021.1964934
P. Kalenda
ABSTRACT This article summarizes a research study on the iterative redesign of a zoo exhibit that focused on engaging families in the learning of science to help shift their real-world conservation practices at home. This action research study, completed at the Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York, with three zoo education staff members and a researcher, utilized participant interviews, a data collection protocol of exhibit use, and follow-up phone calls. Data were analyzed using qualitative coding methods and grounded theory. A working grounded theory was utilized to guide the iterative redesign of the exhibit. Findings explore how guests engaged with the exhibit, how they were impacted, and in what ways they shifted conservation practices at home.
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