Organization and Cataloguing of the Maxwell Museum's Photographic Collections

麦克斯韦博物馆摄影藏品的组织和编目

• 批准号: 8706661
• 负责人: Garth Bawden
• 金额: $ 9.02万
• 依托单位: University of New Mexico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-07-15 至 1990-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8706661&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Organization; Cataloguing; Maxwell; Museum; Photographic

Photographs are a highly useful anthropological tool. While its potential has been realized by many scholars, only recently has the value of the vast number of images held by anthropological institutions been emphasized for its research potential. Unfortunately, many collections have been badly maintained and are pooly recognized. Because of the nitrate base of our earliest documents, use is even dangerous. The Maxwell Museum of the University of New Mexico is conducting a two year program to organize, catalogue, index, and rehouse their photographic materials. A pilot project for this project was funded last year. A computerized catalogue, a visual reference index and an organized storage system will be developed, thereby permitting researchers ready access to these premier collections for the first time. The Maxwell Museum's photographic collections document a century of culture change around the world and a similar span of archaeological and ethnographic research. In many cases, the subject societies no longer exist as integrted units; in others they have been drastically modified. Thus the surviving imagery represents a valuable resource to both anthropology and the members of societies whose traditions have been recorded by the camera.

照片是一种非常有用的人类学工具。 而 直到最近，许多学者才意识到它的潜力 拥有的大量图像的价值， 人类学机构被强调为它的研究 潜力 不幸的是，许多收藏品 它被保存下来，并得到了广泛的认可。 因为硝酸盐基 我们最早的文件，使用甚至是危险的。 新墨西哥州大学的麦克斯韦博物馆是 进行为期两年的计划，组织，目录，索引， 重新安置他们的摄影材料。 为此， 该项目去年获得资助。 计算机化的目录，视觉化的 参考索引和有组织的存储系统将 开发，从而允许研究人员随时访问这些 第一次收藏。 麦克斯韦博物馆的摄影收藏记录了 世纪的文化变化和类似的跨度 考古学和人种学研究。 很多时候 主体社会不再作为完整的单位存在;在其他国家， 它们被彻底修改了。 因此，幸存的图像 代表了人类学和 其传统被记录下来的社会成员 相机