Art History: The Museum

What is the main criterion for an object to be considered part of a collection according to Walter Nelson Durost?

What is the primary function of a museum?

How does the text define a collection?

What role did museums play in the emergence of the modern system of arts according to the text?

In what century did the museum as an institution emerge?

What distinguishes a collection from individual objects based on the reading by James Clifford?

What term did the museum actually come from?

Which cultural practice involved burying the deceased person with objects considered valuable for the afterlife?

What was housed in the mouseion in Ancient Greece?

What concept was exemplified by the cabinet of curiosities kept by European elites in the 16th and 17th centuries?

What was a common feature of pre-modern and non-Western worldviews regarding human-made versus natural products?

What role do personal and institutional collections play in preserving personal memories?

What aspect contributed to the showcasing of wealth and power by European nobles through their collections?

Which collection activity helps in forming and preserving identities according to the text?

What did children's collections as adults help in forming and preserving?

What does forming and preserving identities through collecting things reflect according to the text?

What is the main difference in how objects were perceived based on their creators?

Why were objects made by so-called 'others' often placed in ethnographic museums?

In what way did the Tokyo National Museum categorize the objects from colonized territories in the Meiji period?

What was one of the main goals of the Tokyo National Museum and similar institutions established in the late 19th century?

How did Meiji Japan's policies affect regional differences and cultural practices?

Why did Japan try to assert itself as a modern nation to the West during the Meiji period?

What did the emergence of Japan as a modern nation-state lead to in terms of identity?

Which term best describes the objects from colonized territories in the context of Meiji Japan?

What historical factor enabled the gathering of large amounts of objects for Western museums?

How were museums in the modern era linked to the construction of the modern nation-state?

What role did museum exhibits play in relation to groups seen as 'Others' in Western societies?

How do museums confer authority to certain histories and objects over others in the present?

How are objects from other cultures recontextualized in Western museums?

What criteria are used to distinguish between different types of cultural or artistic products according to the text?

What is one way in which personal and collective identities are formed?

Why did Europeans collect objects from others during colonial expansion?

What was the relationship between racial categories and the classification of natural and human-made objects?

How did non-Western objects play a role in shaping collective identity?

What is one factor that contributed to the separation of objects made by humans and nature?

Why were objects made by non-Western peoples considered belonging to the realm of nature?

What concept emerged alongside the birth of the museum?

How did the creation of national identity involve symbolic borders?