1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794761803321

Autore

See Sarita Echavez

Titolo

The Filipino Primitive : Accumulation and Resistance in the American Museum / / Sarita Echavez See

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-4798-8769-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

306.46

Soggetti

Imperialism - Social aspects - United States - History

Cultural property - Social aspects - United States

Cultural property - Social aspects - Philippines

Material culture - Philippines - History

Philippines Civilization

Philippines Relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Progress through the Museum -- 2. Foreign in a Domestic Space -- 3. Lessons from the Illiterate -- 4. The Booty and Beauty of Contemporary Filipino/American Art -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

How museums’ visual culture contributes to knowledge accumulation Sarita See argues that collections of stolen artifacts form the foundation of American knowledge production. Nowhere can we appreciate more easily the triple forces of knowledge accumulation—capitalist, colonial, and racial—than in the imperial museum, where the objects of accumulation remain materially, visibly preserved. The Filipino Primitive takes Karl Marx’s concept of “primitive accumulation,” usually conceived of as an economic process for the acquisition of land and the extraction of labor, and argues that we also must understand it as a project of knowledge accumulation. Taking us through the Philippine collections at the University of Michigan Natural History Museum and the Frank Murphy Memorial Museum, also in Michigan, See reveals



these exhibits as both allegory and real case of the primitive accumulation that subtends imperial American knowledge, just as the extraction of Filipino labor contributes to American capitalist colonialism. With this understanding of the Filipino foundations of the American drive toward power and knowledge, we can appreciate the value of Filipino American cultural producers like Carlos Bulosan, Stephanie Syjuco, and Ma-Yi Theater Company who have created incisive parodies of this accumulative epistemology, even as they articulate powerful alternative, anti-accumulative social ecologies.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910733499803321

Autore

Buonaiuti, Ernesto

Titolo

Blondel / Ernesto Buonaiuti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Athena, 1926

Descrizione fisica

88 p. ; 18 cm

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

DFT A92.24 BLOM/S 02

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia