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Decolonizing at a Distance : = A Textual Analysis of Four Archaeological Museums in Ohio.

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Reminder of title:	A Textual Analysis of Four Archaeological Museums in Ohio.
Author:	Hinckley, Lilly.
Description:	1 online resource (67 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12.
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ISBN:	9798379602291

Decolonizing at a Distance : = A Textual Analysis of Four Archaeological Museums in Ohio.
Hinckley, Lilly.

Decolonizing at a Distance :A Textual Analysis of Four Archaeological Museums in Ohio. - 1 online resource (67 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

One of the largest challenges museums face today is reckoning with their colonial pasts and mitigating the ways their collections, exhibits, and internal structures continue to reproduce colonial hierarchies (American Alliance of Museums; Catlin-Legukto 2016). "Decolonization" is a global effort with local variations which can be defined in many ways within different disciplines and institutions; here, I situate the term in the context of museums which hold objects of cultural patrimony and whose narratives are predominantly shaped by archaeology and other Western systems of knowledge. Some scholars doubt whether these institutions can ever shake off and disavow their colonial legacy (Smith 1999; Kassim 2017), though others point out their corrective and healing potential (Lonetree 2009; Atalay 2006). Significant theoretical work within museology and anthropology has been devoted to decolonizing the museum yet there remains a lack of literature devoted to small, local museums characterized by geographic removal from the people they claim to represent.This research employs a qualitative comparative analysis between four local museums in Southwestern and Central Ohio based on a textual reading of the exhibitions, spaces, and publicly available information. By assessing to what degree and in what unique ways these museums demonstrate decoloniality within the limits of their size, funding, and obligations to a local audience, this inquiry demonstrates their unique potential to challenge colonial histories and entrenched systems of power precisely because they are situated within the ancestral homelands of several federally recognized tribes, such as the Miami, Shawnee, Delaware, and Potawatomi, who no longer hold lands in Ohio due to centuries of violence and removal perpetuated by the encroaching state.The four museums in this case study were assessed based upon a set of criteria developed to address gaps in decolonizing expectations appropriate to the scale of these institutions and recurring trends in decolonizing literature. The criteria are as follows: 1) Does the museum acknowledge previous and ongoing colonial violence in ways that are truthful and transparent? 2) Does the museum emphasize survivance and continuity over stasis and find ways to celebrate contemporary Indigenous ways of life? 3) Does the museum recognize the agency and decision-making power of Indigenous groups in the past? 4) Does the museum reject stereotypes and resist the temptation to "lump" diverse and unique groups into a single monolithic "Indigenous" category? 5) Does the museum successfully "braid" traditional and scholastic knowledges? And lastly: 6) Does the museum foster relationships of trust, active collaboration, and shared authority with tribal partners?Broadly, this research demonstrates that institutions with the greatest oversight from Native people and state-level cultural preservation organizations employ the most effective and resonant decolonizing tactics, while those without those perspectives and resources fall short. These four museums, nestled on stolen lands alongside shopping centers, auto malls, water treatment facilities, and cornfields, are sites of contention between different ways of knowing the world. How they resolve the dissonance within themselves (or do not) will reveal the way forward.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379602291Subjects--Topical Terms:

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