자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016935932

International Standard Book Number  

9798380307918

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

069

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Smith Flores, Brisa Marie.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of California, Los Angeles., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(149 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: A.

General Note  

Advisor: Delgado Shorter, David.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2023.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약Museums are significant mechanisms that contribute to the creation and maintenance of social norms and ideologies. With calls for increased representation, repatriation, and in the most extreme cases complete extermination of cultural institutions, museums are experiencing an unyielding crisis. My project emerges from this crisis and turns to African and Indigenous knowledge systems that present a counter model to hegemonic epistemological practices in museums. I conducted fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil to analyze the Museu Afro Brasil, as a case study. The case I examine explicitly centers the lives and histories of Afro-diasporic populations. My research poses several important questions: In what ways does colonialism persist in any given museological institution? How can a focus on non-Eurocentric ways of knowing change how museums operate? Can Afro-Indigenous frameworks allow new types of museums to emerge? This dissertation calls for a paradigmatic shift in how we discuss and understand decolonizing museums. I argue colonial ideals of individualism and universalism are antithetical to decolonial processes and must be replaced by ideologies that center collectivity. I close the dissertation by encouraging museum leadership to reflect on their own unique circumstances and from that reflection develop specific strategies that can assist in their own museological institutions.

Summary, Etc.  

요약useums are significant mechanisms that contribute to the creation and maintenance of social norms and ideologies. With calls for increased representation, repatriation, and in the most extreme cases complete extermination of cultural institutions, museums are experiencing an unyielding crisis. My project emerges from this crisis and turns to African and Indigenous knowledge systems that present a counter model to hegemonic epistemological practices in museums. I conducted fieldwork in Sao Paulo, Brazil to analyze the Museu Afro Brasil, as a case study. The case I examine explicitly centers the lives and histories of Afro-diasporic populations. My research poses several important questions: In what ways does colonialism persist in any given museological institution? How can a focus on non-Eurocentric ways of knowing change how museums operate? Can Afro-Indigenous frameworks allow new types of museums to emerge? This dissertation calls for a paradigmatic shift in how we discuss and understand decolonizing museums. I argue colonial ideals of individualism and universalism are antithetical to decolonial processes and must be replaced by ideologies that center collectivity. I close the dissertation by encouraging museum leadership to reflect on their own unique circumstances and from that reflection develop specific strategies that can assist in their own museological institutions.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Museum studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Ethnic studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Black studies.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

African and Indigenous knowledge systems

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Colonialism

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Decolonization

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Decolonizing museums

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Museu Afro Brasil

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Settler colonialism

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

University of California, Los Angeles Culture & Performance Studies 0378

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03A.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

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