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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Interpretive Language and Museum Artwork: How Patrons Respond to Depictions of Native American and White Settler Encounters--A Thematic Analysis

Rogerson, Holli D. 15 December 2022 (has links)
The purpose of this study is to conduct a thematic linguistic analysis of survey responses to museum-quality images depicting various Native American and white settler encounters. The survey asked participants to provide written responses (fill in the blank prompts) to a selection of twelve images composed of photographs and paintings representing one or more of three overarching themes: violence, immersion, and goodwill/collaboration. The research focused on four demographic groups: Latter-day Saints, Native Americans, museum employees, and total participants. Each response was individually analyzed by hand and assigned appropriate classification tags based on the types of words their responses contained including one or more of the following categories: positive, negative, neutral, pushed fear/propaganda, guilt, curiosity, questioning image/artist, questioning accuracy, loaded, wanting more information, and connection/empathy. After the initial analysis, I created word frequency corpuses to calculate word frequency for each image and group. The differing word frequency corpuses showed that high frequency 3 words did not change much among gender, age, or location but a large variation did exist among terms used less than five times. The identification markers that showed the most variance between interpretations of the artwork were museum employees and Native Americans.

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