Mi amigo Ponciano del Pino me envía el sillabus del curso de steve Volk sobre Museos y la formación del conocimiento: http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/svolk/LOND%20934S09-Syllabus.pdf

London Semester – Spring 2009

LOND 934: Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge [Updated 13 Feb 2009]

Steve Volk Class Times: Normally Mondays 1-3 at Steve’s

Flat number: 0207-681-4800 flat; Wednesdays at museums.

Mobile: 0781-328-8462

steven.volk@oberlin.edu

Program office (Donna Vinter): 020-7419-1178 [99-103 Great Russell Street]

Objectives:

Museums and the Structuring of Knowledge:

This course is designed to introduce students to the museum as a history-specific institution which arose in the late 18th and early 19th century in Western Europe (and then, the United States). At the heart of our enquiry is a discussion of the museum as a particular set of practices and institutions which produce, organize, and structure knowledge. The birth of the museum is entwined with the birth of the modern and its systems of organization and classification, i.e., with taxonomies. At the level of natural science, this begins with the Linnaean systems of classification, but it also carries over into ways of classifying humans, human societies, and nations. In that fashion, museums help shape the ways in which we understand history, geography, cultural difference, social hierarchy, what is art and what is ethnography, dominance and subordinance. (sigue)