Classification schemes for collecting, studying, and displaying objects in museum contexts are power-filled forms of knowledge in Foucauldian senses. When such typologies are imprecise or, more harmfully, misleading or forthrightly mistaken, a museum’s collecting practices, curatorial interpretations, and exhibition display decisions can go astray and obscure the social structural and ideological processes that produced the objects in the first place. This introductory essay explores these issues in general theoretical terms and sets the scene for our special issue’s four case studies of historically and ethnographically complex exhibitions in several museums from Manhattan to Brooklyn to Worcester, MA. The literature on the impact of colonialism on museum worlds’ systems of thought and classification is especially important. [museum typologies, curatorship, classification schemes]

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分类方案出错：对博物馆研究和展览展示实践的影响

在博物馆环境中收集、研究和展示物品的分类方案是福柯意义上的充满力量的知识形式。当这些类型学不准确，或者更有害的是，误导或完全错误时，博物馆的收藏实践、策展解释和展览展示决策可能会误入歧途，并首先掩盖产生这些物品的社会结构和意识形态过程。这篇介绍性文章以一般理论术语探讨了这些问题，并为我们特刊的四个案例研究奠定了基础，这些案例研究从曼哈顿到布鲁克林再到马萨诸塞州伍斯特的几个博物馆中的历史和民族志复杂的展览。关于殖民主义对博物馆世界的思想和分类系统的影响的文献尤为重要。[博物馆类型，