Catherine A Nichols
Biographic Data
| ID | 95124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine A Nichols |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine A |
| FAMILY NAME | Nichols |
| SIGNATURE | NICHOLS C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-3142-1535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Curating duplicates: Operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–1926
In the late nineteenth century, the anthropology curators of the Smithsonian Institution consulted their cataloguing systems and storerooms, assessing specimens in order to determine which could be designated as duplicate specimens and exchanged with museums domestically and abroad. The status of ‘duplicate’ for specimens was contingent on conceptions of similiarity impacted by disciplinary classification praxis, with particular emphasis on objec…
Illustrating anthropological knowledge: Texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum
From Pots to Pan Pipes: Specimen Exchanges between Paul S. Martin and Harold Gladwin
Specimen exchange saw widespread use in the nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries among museum-based anthropologists as a means of collections growth and refinement. This paper examines organizational aspects of specimen exchange at the Field Museum, and presents a case study of exchanges between anthropology curator Paul Martin and Harold Gladwin of Gila Pueblo. The Field Museum's specimen exchange policies and procedures establish norms of…
Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Museum: Developing an Exhibit with the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm
Elements of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP), or teaching and learning in the Jesuit tradition, can be successfully integrated into both formal anthropology courses and informal environments such as museum exhibits to advance anthropological pedagogy. This article discusses how I integrated the IPP into the design of an anthropology course on museum exhibit development and into the exhibit itself. Students benefitted from direct activities…
Potential for social media to challenge gender-based violence in India: A quantitative analysis of Twitter use
Gender-based violence (GBV), a global issue that disproportionately affects women, is especially pervasive in India and reinforced by existing gender norms. Starting late 2012, India experienced increased GBV-related media attention, when a young Delhi woman was fatally gang raped. Public outcry ensued through Twitter. Social media platforms, such as Twitter, can erode social boundaries and permit persons to challenge social norms and the status …
"The Smithsonian Institution's "Greatest Treasures: Valuing Museum Objects in the Specimen Exchange Industry
In the nineteenth century, the exchange of anthropological specimens between museum curators and collectors was a widespread practice used to fill gaps in collections. Within the specimen exchange industry, one's ability to exchange required a steady supply of described or catalogued artifacts considered duplicates. Exchanging duplicates allowed anthropological specimens to move through institutional and personal scientific collections over time.…
A Common Thread: Recognizing the Contributions of the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology to Graduate Training with Anthropological Museum Collections
Social and Material Connections: Otis T. Mason’s European Grand Tour and Collections Exchanges
As a method of collections building within the practice of natural history, the exchange of duplicate specimens was carried out by anthropology curators and collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper examines exchanges resulting from a three-month tour of European museums by Smithsonian Institution Curator of Ethnology Otis T. Mason in 1889. Framed by the idea of a network of social and institutional ties, we evaluate …
Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in Anthropological Practice (Joyce and Gillespie, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in Anthropological Practice edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie
Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates at the Smithsonian Institution
The museum catalogue has historically been used to classify artifacts based on their material and contextual features. The use of natural history, catalogue-based classifications in nineteenth-century museums resulted in curators designating some anthropological museum specimens as duplicates. These items were then used in specimen exchanges among museums and collectors, which served to extend each recipient's scope of collections. This article e…
Integrating Museum Collections in Undergraduate Teaching
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Catherine A. Nichols; Integrating Museum Collections in Undergraduate Teaching. Practicing Anthropology 1 July 2015; 37 (3): 41. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552-37.3.41 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyB…
Shared Values, Gifted Objects: The Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropological Duplicates
Shared Values, Gifted ObjectsThe Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropological Duplicates Catherine A. Nichols (bio) Collaboration is a term often employed in museological practice with a directed emphasis on the application of collaborative methodologies to conventional forms of museum representations: exhibitions and programs. Collaboration has been a major concern for museums since the 1980s, and various practical models (Phillips 2003) have emerg…
A Century of Circulation: The Return of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropological Specimens
For nearly a century, the Smithsonian Institution permanently distributed "duplicate specimens" from its museum collections to public educational institutions. In 1903 and 1905, shipments of anthropological material were sent to the Jackson Free Library in Jackson, Tennessee, to be used as educational tools. Using a biographical methodology, I trace the movement of objects from the Smithsonian Institution to this small library, their uses in Jack…
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums by Amy Lonetree (review)
Reviewed by: Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums by Amy Lonetree Catherine A. Nichols (bio) and Nancy J. Parezo (bio) Amy Lonetree. Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 221 pp. Paper, $24.95. For museums that hold Native American archaeological and historical collections, the poetics and politics of Nati…
Dying to Be Represented: Museums and Día de los Muertos Collaborations
Dying to Be Represented:Museums and Día de los Muertos Collaborations Gwyneira Isaac (bio), April Bojorquez (bio), and Catherine Nichols (bio) Some traditions—we think of them as the archive of our memories —Amelia Malagamba, 2009 Over the last four decades museums and cultural organizations in the United States have used their institutions to introduce Día de los Muertos celebrations to the general public.1 While these celebrations have become i…
Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates at the Smithsonian Institution
The museum catalogue has historically been used to classify artifacts based on their material and contextual features. The use of natural history, catalogue-based classifications in nineteenth-century museums resulted in curators designating some anthropological museum specimens as duplicates. These items were then used in specimen exchanges among museums and collectors, which served to extend each recipient's scope of collections. This article e…
A Century of Circulation: The Return of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropological Specimens
For nearly a century, the Smithsonian Institution permanently distributed "duplicate specimens" from its museum collections to public educational institutions. In 1903 and 1905, shipments of anthropological material were sent to the Jackson Free Library in Jackson, Tennessee, to be used as educational tools. Using a biographical methodology, I trace the movement of objects from the Smithsonian Institution to this small library, their uses in Jack…
Potential for social media to challenge gender-based violence in India: A quantitative analysis of Twitter use
Gender-based violence (GBV), a global issue that disproportionately affects women, is especially pervasive in India and reinforced by existing gender norms. Starting late 2012, India experienced increased GBV-related media attention, when a young Delhi woman was fatally gang raped. Public outcry ensued through Twitter. Social media platforms, such as Twitter, can erode social boundaries and permit persons to challenge social norms and the status …
"The Smithsonian Institution's "Greatest Treasures: Valuing Museum Objects in the Specimen Exchange Industry
In the nineteenth century, the exchange of anthropological specimens between museum curators and collectors was a widespread practice used to fill gaps in collections. Within the specimen exchange industry, one's ability to exchange required a steady supply of described or catalogued artifacts considered duplicates. Exchanging duplicates allowed anthropological specimens to move through institutional and personal scientific collections over time.…
A Common Thread: Recognizing the Contributions of the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology to Graduate Training with Anthropological Museum Collections
Curating duplicates: Operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–1926
In the late nineteenth century, the anthropology curators of the Smithsonian Institution consulted their cataloguing systems and storerooms, assessing specimens in order to determine which could be designated as duplicate specimens and exchanged with museums domestically and abroad. The status of ‘duplicate’ for specimens was contingent on conceptions of similiarity impacted by disciplinary classification praxis, with particular emphasis on objec…
Social and Material Connections: Otis T. Mason’s European Grand Tour and Collections Exchanges
As a method of collections building within the practice of natural history, the exchange of duplicate specimens was carried out by anthropology curators and collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper examines exchanges resulting from a three-month tour of European museums by Smithsonian Institution Curator of Ethnology Otis T. Mason in 1889. Framed by the idea of a network of social and institutional ties, we evaluate …
Shared Values, Gifted Objects: The Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropological Duplicates
Shared Values, Gifted ObjectsThe Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropological Duplicates Catherine A. Nichols (bio) Collaboration is a term often employed in museological practice with a directed emphasis on the application of collaborative methodologies to conventional forms of museum representations: exhibitions and programs. Collaboration has been a major concern for museums since the 1980s, and various practical models (Phillips 2003) have emerg…
Dying to Be Represented: Museums and Día de los Muertos Collaborations
Dying to Be Represented:Museums and Día de los Muertos Collaborations Gwyneira Isaac (bio), April Bojorquez (bio), and Catherine Nichols (bio) Some traditions—we think of them as the archive of our memories —Amelia Malagamba, 2009 Over the last four decades museums and cultural organizations in the United States have used their institutions to introduce Día de los Muertos celebrations to the general public.1 While these celebrations have become i…
Dying to Be Represented: Museums and Día de los Muertos Collaborations
Dying to Be Represented:Museums and Día de los Muertos Collaborations Gwyneira Isaac (bio), April Bojorquez (bio), and Catherine Nichols (bio) Some traditions—we think of them as the archive of our memories —Amelia Malagamba, 2009 Over the last four decades museums and cultural organizations in the United States have used their institutions to introduce Día de los Muertos celebrations to the general public.1 While these celebrations have become i…
Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums by Amy Lonetree (review)
Reviewed by: Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums by Amy Lonetree Catherine A. Nichols (bio) and Nancy J. Parezo (bio) Amy Lonetree. Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012. 221 pp. Paper, $24.95. For museums that hold Native American archaeological and historical collections, the poetics and politics of Nati…
A Century of Circulation: The Return of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropological Specimens
For nearly a century, the Smithsonian Institution permanently distributed "duplicate specimens" from its museum collections to public educational institutions. In 1903 and 1905, shipments of anthropological material were sent to the Jackson Free Library in Jackson, Tennessee, to be used as educational tools. Using a biographical methodology, I trace the movement of objects from the Smithsonian Institution to this small library, their uses in Jack…
Integrating Museum Collections in Undergraduate Teaching
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Catherine A. Nichols; Integrating Museum Collections in Undergraduate Teaching. Practicing Anthropology 1 July 2015; 37 (3): 41. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552-37.3.41 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyB…
Shared Values, Gifted Objects: The Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropological Duplicates
Shared Values, Gifted ObjectsThe Smithsonian Institution’s Anthropological Duplicates Catherine A. Nichols (bio) Collaboration is a term often employed in museological practice with a directed emphasis on the application of collaborative methodologies to conventional forms of museum representations: exhibitions and programs. Collaboration has been a major concern for museums since the 1980s, and various practical models (Phillips 2003) have emerg…
Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in Anthropological Practice (Joyce and Gillespie, eds.)
This work is a book review considering the title Things in Motion: Object Itineraries in Anthropological Practice edited by Rosemary A. Joyce and Susan D. Gillespie
Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates at the Smithsonian Institution
The museum catalogue has historically been used to classify artifacts based on their material and contextual features. The use of natural history, catalogue-based classifications in nineteenth-century museums resulted in curators designating some anthropological museum specimens as duplicates. These items were then used in specimen exchanges among museums and collectors, which served to extend each recipient's scope of collections. This article e…
Social and Material Connections: Otis T. Mason’s European Grand Tour and Collections Exchanges
As a method of collections building within the practice of natural history, the exchange of duplicate specimens was carried out by anthropology curators and collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper examines exchanges resulting from a three-month tour of European museums by Smithsonian Institution Curator of Ethnology Otis T. Mason in 1889. Framed by the idea of a network of social and institutional ties, we evaluate …
Potential for social media to challenge gender-based violence in India: A quantitative analysis of Twitter use
Gender-based violence (GBV), a global issue that disproportionately affects women, is especially pervasive in India and reinforced by existing gender norms. Starting late 2012, India experienced increased GBV-related media attention, when a young Delhi woman was fatally gang raped. Public outcry ensued through Twitter. Social media platforms, such as Twitter, can erode social boundaries and permit persons to challenge social norms and the status …
"The Smithsonian Institution's "Greatest Treasures: Valuing Museum Objects in the Specimen Exchange Industry
In the nineteenth century, the exchange of anthropological specimens between museum curators and collectors was a widespread practice used to fill gaps in collections. Within the specimen exchange industry, one's ability to exchange required a steady supply of described or catalogued artifacts considered duplicates. Exchanging duplicates allowed anthropological specimens to move through institutional and personal scientific collections over time.…
A Common Thread: Recognizing the Contributions of the Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology to Graduate Training with Anthropological Museum Collections
From Pots to Pan Pipes: Specimen Exchanges between Paul S. Martin and Harold Gladwin
Specimen exchange saw widespread use in the nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries among museum-based anthropologists as a means of collections growth and refinement. This paper examines organizational aspects of specimen exchange at the Field Museum, and presents a case study of exchanges between anthropology curator Paul Martin and Harold Gladwin of Gila Pueblo. The Field Museum's specimen exchange policies and procedures establish norms of…
Teaching and Learning Anthropology in the Museum: Developing an Exhibit with the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm
Elements of the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm (IPP), or teaching and learning in the Jesuit tradition, can be successfully integrated into both formal anthropology courses and informal environments such as museum exhibits to advance anthropological pedagogy. This article discusses how I integrated the IPP into the design of an anthropology course on museum exhibit development and into the exhibit itself. Students benefitted from direct activities…
Illustrating anthropological knowledge: Texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum
Curating duplicates: Operationalizing similiarity in the Smithsonian Institution with Haida rattles, 1880–1926
In the late nineteenth century, the anthropology curators of the Smithsonian Institution consulted their cataloguing systems and storerooms, assessing specimens in order to determine which could be designated as duplicate specimens and exchanged with museums domestically and abroad. The status of ‘duplicate’ for specimens was contingent on conceptions of similiarity impacted by disciplinary classification praxis, with particular emphasis on objec…
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