ANTH 3679
Curating Culture: Collection, Preservation, and Display as Cultural Forms
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Course Description
Discipline(s):
Artistic, Interpretive, & Philosophical Inquiry
This course teaches the importance of understanding cultural meanings when curating items, whether material or intangible, drawn from social worlds other than one's own. It provides a general introduction to collection, preservation, and display through study of a specific collection held by the instructor or by a local institution such as the Fralin Museum of Art.
