From d239f2baa1fafab83f65a20815f380c2a86cdb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Loes <l.bogers@hva.nl> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 15:13:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update week11.md --- docs/assignments/week11.md | 26 -------------------------- 1 file changed, 26 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/assignments/week11.md b/docs/assignments/week11.md index 44e7f75..7c9a284 100644 --- a/docs/assignments/week11.md +++ b/docs/assignments/week11.md @@ -9,32 +9,6 @@ <iframe src="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSkdPoDWi5P-JfrYTUDtJelboAx5EKclvjIxfGMPSLR_QhpJwobThQY6XcrvoG9nlWe-opwY5jTLvgZ/embed?start=false&loop=false&delayms=15000" frameborder="0" width="960" height="749" allowfullscreen="true" mozallowfullscreen="true" webkitallowfullscreen="true"></iframe> - -## - - - ->No archive is entirely stable or fixed (Dekker 2017: 12) - -What - -Why - -Archives are not neutral but have loaded histories and embody power imbalances still at work today. The seemingly simple categories and oppositions have a long history of being used to demarcate levels of civilization in the context of colonialism. Structuralist anthropologist Claude Levy-Strauss's *The Raw and The Cooked* for example (1964) described classifications as a device for understanding the cultures of others – categories such as the raw and the cooked have been clues to the core organizing principles for colonial Western understandings of "primitive" culture (Bowker & Star 1995: 3), as he discussed in his seminal study of Amerindian mythologies. - - - - -Who - -When - -How - - - - - ## References Bowker, G. and Star, S. L., *Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences*, Cambridge/London, MIT Press: 2000 (1999). -- GitLab