Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum

This paper aims to entertain the possibilities for analysis, interpretation, and learning offered by evocative autoethnographic texts for LAM and LIS user studies. The focus in this paper is on storytelling as autoethnographic writing. To illustrate facets of a particular cultural experience and sta...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Proceedings from the Document Academy
Main Author: Catherine Closet-Crane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Akron Press 2014-12-01
Subjects:
autoethnography
museum object(s)
document(s)
documentation
epiphanic experiences
Online Access:https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol1/iss1/9
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Summary:This paper aims to entertain the possibilities for analysis, interpretation, and learning offered by evocative autoethnographic texts for LAM and LIS user studies. The focus in this paper is on storytelling as autoethnographic writing. To illustrate facets of a particular cultural experience and start a conversation about the transformative power of museum objects as documents, the story told in this paper recounts a series of events and experiences from the life of two visitors after their museum encounter with an engraved shell artifact from the archeological site of Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma.
ISSN:2473-215X

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