Document (#41134)

Author

Van Allen, A.

Title

Bird skin to biorepository : making materials matter in the afterlives of natural history collections

Source

Knowledge organization. 44(2017) no.7, S.529-544

Year

2017

Abstract

Examining the material practices of museum genomics, my ethnographic research focuses on the Global Genome Initiative at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C., a project that seeks to preserve vanishing biodiversity for an uncertain future by cryo-preserving half of the families of life in the next six years. Through stuffing a bird skin, taking genetic samples, and sub-sampling tissues for DNA extraction I examine a return to encyclopedic collecting with biotechnological tools, exploring how biotechnology is redefining and preserving "life itself " (Foucault 1970; Kowal and Radin 2015). This article examines one instance of how museum collections are made, standardized, and shared at the Smithsonian. Contrasting perspectives from ethnographic work in the Division of Birds and the Biorepository, I examine the friction and flow of biodiversity as specimens are transformed into data through material-semiotic practices. I analyze how these data and specimens then undergo multiple reclassifications as categories for new types of museum objects-such as genetic samples- are negotiated. Cryo-collections are "made to matter" (Barad 2003) as ontological embodiments through their preservation, multiple uses, and standardization across disciplines. Through attending to the (bio)materials themselves, I argue the practices currently structuring a shared ecological future become legible.

Content

Beitrag in einem Special Issue: Knowledge Organization within the Museum Domain.

Area

Museen

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