School of Information Management & Systems.
142  Access to American Cultural Heritages. Buckland. Fall 1997.
Provisional program and typical readings
Schedule.   Binder of course materials.   Readings.   1995 material. Exam questions
Assignments: 1. Find "Culture".   2. Ethnic groups.   3. Social aspects of naming.   4. Visit Hearst Museum.   5. Other exhibit.   6. Interview.
Exercises:   1. MELVYL.   2. E-mail.   3. WWW.   4. Half-page.   5. Subject headings.   6. MELVYL's other databases. Portfolio: Material on an individually selected theme. 1995 topics.
Every week: Discussion of cultural heritage issues as presented in the mass media.
1. INTRODUCTION. Background: Either Sowell, Thomas. Ethnic America: A history. Basic Books, 1981. MOFFITT Reserve E184.A1.S688
or Takaki, Ronald. A different mirror: A history of multicultural America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1993. MOFFITT, ETHNIC STUDIES Reserve E184.A1. T335
Case study: Separate lives; broken dreams: The Saga of Chinese Immigration. 1993. Video.
2. DOCUMENTS, MEANING, ACCESS
Buckland, M. K. Information and Information Systems. 1991. Chap. 8: Access.
Roszak, Theodore. The cult of information. U of California Press, 1986. 2nd ed. 1994. Chap 5: Of ideas and data. MAIN T58.5.R67; MOFF QA76.9.C66.R66 1986.
Darwin's revolution. (The day the universe changed, 8). James Burke. MC VIDEO/C 997:8.
3 CULTURE; "ETHNIC" GROUPS
Library assignment to find readings about "Culture".
4 HISTORY: "The Past"; History; Historiography; Heritage; Social Memory
Lowenthal, David. The Past is a Foreign Country. Cambridge UP, 1985. Chap 5: How we know the past: History. Pp.185-259.
Fentress, James & Chris Wickham. Social Memory. Oxford UP, 1992. Esp. Conclusion.
5 EDUCATION
Kirp , David L. "The battle of the books." Image Feb 24, 1991. CA textbook controversy.
Delfattore, Joan. (1992). What Johnny Shouldn't Read: Textbook Censorship in America. New Haven: Yale University Press. ED/PSYCH LB3045.7.D45 1992; LAW KF4203.5 D44 1992 Liberal critique.
Vitz, Paul C. 1986. Censorship: Evidence of bias in our children's textbooks. Ann Arbor: Servant Books. ED/PSYCH LB3045.84 V57 1986 Conservative critique.
6 LANGUAGE & CULTURE
Berman, Sanford. Prejudices and Antipathies: A tract on the LC Subject Headings concerning people. (1971 and an essentially unchanged 1993 edition). MOFF Z695 U36 B45; MAIN Z695 U36 B45 1993; CHICANO STUDIES Z695.B3 and elsewhere.   Also Ebonics and related issues.
7 MUSEUMS
Assignments to examine selected exhibits in the Hearst Museum of Anthropology and elsewhere.
Exhibiting cultures: The poetics and politics of museum display, ed. by I. Karp and S. D. Lavine. 1991. MOFF AM151.E94 1991. Also at ANTHRO and ENVI DESIGN libraries. Esp. Part II: Art museums, national identity, and the status of minority cultures: The case of Hispanic Art in the United States.
Heritage interpretation ed. by David L. Uzzell. Belhaven Press, 1989. MAIN CC135.H46 1989. Also ENVI DESIGN. Two volumes of essays on interpretation of both natural and created heritage and on commercialization of heritage resources. Esp. Robert Hewison: "Heritage: An Interpretation" v.2, pp. 15-23 and Raymond Tabata: "Implications of special interest tourism for interpretation and resource conservation."
The challenge to our cultural heritage: Why preserve the past? Ed. by Yudhishthir Raj Isar. Proceedings of a conference on cultural preservation, Washington, D.C., 1984. Ed. by Yudhishthir Raj Isar. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press; Paris: UNESCO, 1986. CC 135 C551 1984 MAIN 18 papers on a wide range of topics.
8 CULTURAL POLICIES
Stam, Deirdre. "Documenting whose heritage? The problem of point of view in documenting American cultural property." In: A la Recherche de la Mémoire: Le Patrimoine Culturel. Actes du Colloque... 1989. Ed. H. Rouit & J.-M. Humbert. Munich: Saur, 1992. Pp. 97-105. MAIN CC135.A42 1992
9 & 10 ECONOMICS OF CULTURAL HERITAGE
Culture and democracy: Social and ethical issues in public support for the arts and humanities, ed. by A. Buchwalter. Westview, 1992. MAIN NX735.C86 1992 Good source for US cultural policy and, especially, the politics of public funding of arts and heritage activities. Esp. Mulcahy: "The public interest in public culture."
11 ART POLICY
Degenerate art. 1993. MEDIA CENTER VIDEO/C 3330. Hitler's policy with respect to works of art. Not US, but a stunning example of cultural heritage policy in action. Book version: Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. LA: LA County Museum of Art, 1991.
12 ATTITUDES, VALUES, CULTURAL CONFLICT
Amadi, Adolphe. African Libraries: Western Tradition and Colonial Brainwashing. Chap. 9: The invisible export of Western knowledge. Pp.147-173.
Hamerow, T. S. Disturbing echoes of old arguments about ethnic experience. Chronicle of Higher Education Aug 2, 1993, p. A36
13 CEREMONY; RITUAL; SYMBOLISM
Triumph of the will. Leni Riefenstahl. MEDIA CENTER VIDEO/C999:359
14 & 15 DISCUSSION OF PORTFOLIOS.