{"id":13130,"date":"2023-04-19T17:32:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=13130"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:32:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T21:32:25","slug":"contextualizing-taino-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/contextualizing-taino-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"Contextualizing Ta\u00edno Collections | Opening of Student-Curated Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Left: Carved stone amulet in a human-like form, ca. 1200\u20131500 CE (Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology\u00a02012-31-1).\u00a0Right: Cover of\u00a0Directorio comercial, industrial y tur\u00edstico<\/em>, ca. 1970 (John Hay Library HF3336 .D57).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Join the John Hay Library and Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology for the opening of the student-curated exhibit, Contextualizing Ta\u00edno Collections<\/em>, on Thursday, May 4 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in the Willis Reading Room of the John Hay Library.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served after the speaking program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The event will feature a keynote<\/strong> presentation by Amanda Guzm\u00e1n, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Trinity College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Guzm\u00e1n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amanda Guzm\u00e1n is an anthropological archaeologist with a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. She specializes in the field of museum anthropology with a focus on the history of collecting and exhibiting Puerto Rico at the intersection of issues of intercultural representation and national identity formation. In the context of Puerto Rico\u2019s current environmental and economic uncertainty, her research traces understudied museum acquisition narratives documenting the island\u2019s historical material relations of belonging and exclusion with the U.S. mainland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda has a demonstrated background handling and interpreting object and archival material in diverse collection-holding cultural institutions. She applies her collections experience as well as her commitment to working with and for multiple publics to her object-based inquiry teaching practice that privileges a more equitable, co-production of knowledge in the classroom through accessible engagement in cultural work. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Pre-Columbian Society of New York, as an Innovative Cultural Advocacy Fellowship Mentor for the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, and a Bronx Council on the Arts grant panelist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contextualizing Ta\u00edno Collections<\/em> Exhibit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this exhibit, student curators share their work to put a new donation of ancient Caribbean artifacts into cultural, historical, political, and contemporary contexts. First peoples of many Caribbean islands developed shared beliefs and practices, which today we call Ta\u00edno culture. People practicing this culture were historically\u00a0erased<\/em>\u00a0from Caribbean stories. To make sense of Ta\u00edno artifacts\u00a0recently donated to Brown University, the exhibit\u00a0focuses<\/em>\u00a0on them instead. The exhibit shares collections from the Haffenreffer Museum\u00a0of Anthropology\u00a0and John Hay Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibit is installed in the Willis Reading Room at the John Hay Library<\/a> and will run from May 4, 2023 – May 26, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join the John Hay Library and Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology for the opening of the student-curated exhibit, Contextualizing Ta\u00edno Collections, on Thursday, May 4 from 6 – 7:30 p.m. in the Willis Reading Room of the John Hay Library. Free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served after the speaking program. The … Contextualizing Ta\u00edno Collections | Opening of Student-Curated Exhibition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34,35,8,155,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-exhibits-events-special-collections","category-general-interest","category-hay","category-home-page","category-special-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}