A state museum is redesigning a permanent gallery about one ethnic group in Australia for a new generation of visitors. The curatorial team has collected items and notes from community consultations. Some community members want the gallery to highlight objects and visual symbols that are distinctive to the group. Others argue the gallery should prioritise values, beliefs, language and social norms, because objects can be misunderstood without context. The museum also wants to avoid presenting the group as unchanging or “stuck in the past”, and it is considering adding a section titled “Culture in everyday life today” that includes contemporary examples (e.g. workplaces, schools, online spaces, and family life).
b. Analyse how material and non-material culture interact to create a distinctive overview of the group’s culture in a museum setting. In your response, explain why focusing on only one type of culture could lead to a limited or distorted understanding.
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In this unit, students explore expressions of culture and ethnicity within Australian society in two different contexts – Australian Indigenous cultures, and ethnicity in relation to migrant groups. Students critically examine the historical suppression and increasing public awareness of Australian Indigenous cultures, and investigate ethnicity as a key sociological category, considering how ethnic identities are formed, experienced, and shaped by various forces.
Students examine the sociological concepts of race and ethnicity, the process of othering, and the theory of cultural hybridity. They investigate Australia’s ethnic diversity, multiculturalism, factors influencing belonging and inclusion, and the ethical implications of research into ethnic groups, including a case study of a specific ethnic group.
an overview of the non-material and material culture distinctive to the group
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