The politics of representation and collaboration : El Río, a Smithsonian folklife festival and traveling exhibition
| dc.contributor.advisor | Strong, Pauline Turner, 1953- | |
| dc.creator | Peché, Linda Ho | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-04-18T18:03:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-04-18T18:03:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005-05-21 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The problem of representation has been a contested issue in both contemporary anthropology and the museum field. I analyze the development of a Smithsonian festival and exhibition called “El Río: Culture and Environment on the Rio Grande/río Bravo Basin” to explore the following questions. Is it possible to disconnect modern representational practices from the historical roots of human display for entertainment? Can the individuals represented speak for themselves within this framework? It is extremely difficult to disentangle current representations from nineteenth century exhibition with the use of the same presentational techniques. However, the El Río festival and exhibition curators are using interaction and collaboration as methods for the inclusion of peoples that previously had no say in institutional representations of their cultures | |
| dc.description.department | Anthropology | |
| dc.format.medium | electronic | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2152/124871 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.26153/tsw/51473 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UT Electronic Theses and Dissertations | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. | en |
| dc.rights.restriction | Restricted | |
| dc.subject | Representation | |
| dc.subject | Smithsonian festival | |
| dc.subject | El Rio | |
| dc.title | The politics of representation and collaboration : El Río, a Smithsonian folklife festival and traveling exhibition | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.genre | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Anthropology | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Anthropology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts |