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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a9aff7fa2a0d48e7ac8ed0137d66a2b92025-08-19T19:16:57ZengUniversity of Akron PressProceedings from the Document Academy2473-215X2014-12-0110.35492/docam/1/1/9Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the MuseumCatherine Closet-CraneThis 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.https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol1/iss1/9autoethnographymuseum object(s)document(s)documentationepiphanic experiences |
| spellingShingle | Catherine Closet-Crane Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum autoethnography museum object(s) document(s) documentation epiphanic experiences |
| title | Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum |
| title_full | Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum |
| title_fullStr | Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum |
| title_full_unstemmed | Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum |
| title_short | Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum |
| title_sort | listening to shells and discovering a lost world epiphanic experiences at the museum |
| topic | autoethnography museum object(s) document(s) documentation epiphanic experiences |
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