This article investigates the classification and record-keeping history of a medicine man model in the Wellcome Library archives and the Science Museum archives in London, and the multifarious ways that information is constructed or lost in the history of a museum collection. First, attending to the affective turn in information scholarship, I argue that people's relationships and idiosyncratic preoccupations are formative in the histories of records and yet obscured in them. Second, I argue that broader “epistemic cultures” and “ecologies of standards”—belief systems, histories of disciplinary thought, and institutional histories—are formative in the legacy of information systems. A “trace ethnographic” approach to the history of one ethnographic piece illuminated the formation of authoritative knowledge as it played out in the acquisition and classification of the object and its institutionalized records.

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在石膏模型的分布式记录中追踪民族志、影响和制度生态

本文调查了伦敦威康图书馆档案和科学博物馆档案中一个医学人模型的分类和记录保存历史，以及信息在博物馆收藏历史中构建或丢失的多种方式。首先，关注信息学术的情感转变，我认为人们的关系和特殊的关注在记录的历史中是形成性的，但在它们中却被掩盖了。其次，我认为更广泛的“认知文化”和“标准生态”——信仰系统、学科思想史和制度历史——在信息系统的遗产中形成。