At its most basic level, Hannah Turner’s Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation could be understood as a case history of documentary practices of the Department of Anthropology of the United States Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) from its origins to the present day. At least, this is what its Cataloging-in-Publication data suggests with the subdivision “Case studies” for each of its five subject headings assigned: “National Museum of Natural History (U.S.); Museums — Collection management; Ethnologic museums and collections; Indians of North America — Material culture; and Museums and Indians.” In fact, Cataloguing Culture’s case study is a critical telescope that Turner turns upon a broad range of cataloging practices and perspectives common in galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and special collections (GLAMS).