abstract:This article reports on the first part of a two-part study that traces the evolution of the Canadian Museum of History's catalog of its ethnological collections from 1879 to the present day. Drawing on the insights of rhetorical genre studies, we examine how the catalog has been implicated in the formation and shaping of anthropological knowledge in the museum over the course of its history. In this first part, we focus on the ledgers that served as the catalog between 1879 and 1960 and examine how they participated in collecting, ordering, and transforming knowledge within the museum during that time period. In specific terms, we explore the sociohistorical context in which the ledger catalog emerged, the kinds of knowledge it communicated through its structure and content, and the particular understanding of Indigenous material culture as embodied knowledge it communicated and perpetuated over time.

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加拿大历史博物馆人种学物品目录的演变，第 1 部分：博物馆中人类学知识的收集、整理和转化，约。1879–1960

摘要：本文报道了一项由两部分组成的研究的第一部分，该研究追溯了加拿大历史博物馆的民族学收藏目录从 1879 年至今的演变。借鉴修辞体裁研究的见解，我们研究了在博物馆的历史进程中，目录如何与博物馆人类学知识的形成和塑造有关。在第一部分中，我们重点关注 1879 年至 1960 年间作为目录的分类账，并研究他们在那个时期如何参与博物馆内的知识收集、订购和转化。具体而言，我们探索了分类帐目录出现的社会历史背景，它通过其结构和内容传达的知识种类，