Anonymous This exercise is intended to improve your skills in independent research. Wander in the museum and choose an object that intrigues you and that also dates to before 1850, preferably before 1800. Starting from your formal observations of the object and from the object’s catalogue entry, research the object further. Input key terms into relevant digital databases. – The best general databases include: www.jstor.org (Links to an external site.), search.proquest.com (Links to an external site.), and our own Less useful is https://scholar.google.com/ (Links to an external site.). https://books.google.com/ (Links to an external site.) is great for finding books to research further and for investigating footnotes. If you are unsure where to begin, think about the subthemes of this class. What culture is the object from? Where do its materials come from? What is the object’s function or efficacy? Find sources that cover broader topics. Do not attempt to find five sources just about the object. Find at least five promising sources of information about the object. These sources cannot be blogposts or newspaper pieces. At least four of them must be in English.* They must all fall into the following categories: – (at least 1) peer-reviewed articles in academic journals or chapters from books published by academic presses (at least 1) entire books published by academic presses (at least 1) museum or exhibition catalogues There must be at least 1 hard-copy document (not digital) in one of the categories above. Please note that a hard-copy book or article is mandatory, whether acquired from the library, through interlibrary loan, or by purchasing it online or in a bookstore. If you download a source or check it out from the library or order it via interlibrary loan, and it turns out not to be very helpful, you must find another source. It is therefore important that you begin acquiring sources early, perhaps even now. List your five sources, formatting them according to the Chicago Manual of Style (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citation… (Links to an external site.)). Below each entry, provide a brief annotation in complete sentences. This annotation should: 1) summarize the source’s content, 2) explain why it is a good source for your chosen object, and if possible 3) tentatively situate the source within broader scholarly discourse (optional). For good examples of annotated bibliographies, see http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/annotated-bi… (Links to an external site.) and http://guides.library.cornell.edu/annotatedbibliog… (Links to an external site.). Yours do not have to be this long, but must cover the first two points above. It is not necessary to read these books all the way through; utilize productive skimming. * A note on language: in future research endeavors, students should utilize their proficiency in non-English languages. However, in order to ensure that this assignment is graded fairly, at least four of the sources must be in English. Work I picked: Japan, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, 1830/33, 1925.3245, https://www.artic.edu/artworks/24645/under-the-wav..
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