Il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del MOA di Vancouver ...

• Main Author: Gualtieri, Claudia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Italian
• Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2011
• Subjects: Canada; First Nations; oggetto materiale; conservazione; restituzione; proprietà culturale; performance.; Canada; British Columbia; Moa; First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/1028; http://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1028

This essay will examine anthropology museums as cultural museums from the methodological approach of Cultural Studies. Within this frame, the museum acts as a mode of conservation of material culture thus revealing its immaterial consequences. In the museum, historical memories are preserved and re-enacted to articulate cultural identities in the present, to shed light on the past, and to illuminate future communal practices. After a brief survey on collections in the epoch of European geographical discoveries and on the birth of anthropology as a science in colonial times, the essay will consider the exhibition of cultural artefacts belonging to the First Nations of British Columbia in the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) in Vancouver. References to native land claims will help to understand the links between time and place, history and geography, cultural memory and land that are central to native re-constructions of identity. Through a critical reading of conventional ethnographic and anthropological criteria ... : Altre Modernità, No 5 (2011): Se il museo si fa teatro: la cultura del display tra conservazione e produzione ...