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Visualizing Japanese-America: The Japanese American National Museum and the construction of identity.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Visualizing Japanese-America: The Japanese American National Museum and the construction of identity./
Author:	Takaragawa, Stephanie Miyoko.
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jay Ruby.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3233479
ISBN:	9780542871092

Visualizing Japanese-America: The Japanese American National Museum and the construction of identity.
Takaragawa, Stephanie Miyoko.

Visualizing Japanese-America: The Japanese American National Museum and the construction of identity. - 199 p.

Adviser: Jay Ruby.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2006.

This dissertation examines the politics of cultural representation, specifically how Japanese American identity is constructed, represented and legitimized through the exhibitions at the Japanese American National Museum and among a community of both Japanese-Americans and non-Japanese-Americans in Los Angeles, California. "Japanese American identity" is a socialized construct denoting common ancestral heritage but not necessarily shared culture. Yet these categories, used on employment forms, education applications and censuses, homogenize its constituent citizens into a construct that equates shared ancestral heritage, with shared culture. My research explores those alleged commonalities represented in public forums to private interviews in order to delineate Japanese-American identity from Japanese-American identification.

ISBN: 9780542871092Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Visualizing Japanese-America: The Japanese American National Museum and the construction of identity.
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520 $a This research examines the cycle of cultural production through exhibition and reception. Museums and their exhibitions are sites of cultural production that need to be examined as such. To this end, this dissertation analyzes the cultural producers involved in constructing what is exhibited in the museums. I then look at the physical site of the museum and the ideological content of the exhibitions insofar as they relate to the goals of the cultural producers. Finally, this research includes a reception component to examine how audiences make meaning from what they see in the museum. By prioritizing exhibitions, installations and visual cultural constructs this research exposes the processes of visual communication. This research also focuses on issues of representation and display inside museums. Museums and their exhibitions are cultural and political arenas where identity can be both asserted and contested. By looking at how people make sense out of the visual world around them, this dissertation explores how culture is both produced and reproduced publicly. The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate through ethnography how cultural production and reception relate to the construction of identity and collective culture in the visual field. It is informed by the scholarly tradition of visual anthropology but draws from museum studies, media and communications theory, as well as art history and literary criticism.
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