Glossary

__GLOSSARY

__ //Curator// (from [|Latin] //cura//, care), means manager, [|overseer]. A **curator** or **keeper** of a [|cultural] heritage institution (e.g., [|archive], [|gallery] , [|library] , [|museum] or [|garden] ) is a content specialist responsible for an institution's [|collections] and, together with a publications specialist, their associated [|collections catalogs]. The object of a curator's concern necessarily involves tangible objects of some sort, whether it be // [|inter alia] // artwork, collectibles, historic items or scientific collections.  praxis - reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it (51)

colonized (11) - a group of persons institutionalized away from others

banking model of education (12) -

postmodernism (13) -

poststructuralism (14) -

binarisms (18) -

depolitization (24) -

ontological (32) - relating to or based upon being or existence

axiological (43) - (axiology) the study of the nature, types, and criteria of values and of value judgments esp. in ethics

solipsistic (50) - (solipsism) a theory holding that the self can know nothing but its own modifications and that the self is the only existent thing

psychologism (51) - a theory that applies psychological conceptions to the interpretation of historical events or logical thought

contradistinction (51) -

latifundium (64) - a great landed estate with primitive agriculture and labor often in a state of partial servitude

conscientizacao (36...) learning to perceive social, political, and economic contradictions, and to take action against the oppressive elements of reality

