Oct 1
2012
"Creating an exhibition is hard. And, as countless theorists have pointed out, fraught with power. Take every critique of ethnographic representation you can think of in the post-Writing Culture world and yep, we’ve got that, too. Fossilizing living culture in the ethnographic present? Check. Using the power of authority to construct representations of others? Check. Imposing narrative or other explanatory devices that may not jibe with the understandings of the people who lived the experiences depicted? Check."
