How is the past constructed by different social groups and how are these social categories distinguished and interconnected?
How has this changed over time?
Bringing together human ecologists, anthropologists, art historians, classicists, historians, and archaeologists working at the University of Alberta, this exhibit will focus on deconstructing these questions. It provides examples from material culture studies that address changing perspectives on the intersections of gender, identity, race and ethnicity, the language of power and the study of under-represented groups.
A second focus is human biological and cultural diversity and how this diversity is expressed and perceived by members of different cultures or communities. We seek to highlight the (non) materialities of ‘hidden pasts’, and how these represent modes of discrimination and privilege. This also pertains to the ways in which disciplines dealing with materiality have approached outreach: what is worthy of study and preservation.
With an emphasis on material culture, and with these questions in mind, participants have chosen one or more objects from their field of expertise and present them in images and words.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts Signature Research Area, The Future of the Past, under the direction of Pamela Willoughby and Margriet Haagsma.
This exhibition is sponsored by the Arts Signature Research Area, The Future of the Past, under the direction of Pamela Willoughby and Margriet Haagsma.