Il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del MOA di Vancouver
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-...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:37e595665f2f4b34a4153ff532a71883 2023-10-01T03:55:59+02:00 Il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del MOA di Vancouver Claudia Gualtieri 2011-03-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/1028 https://doaj.org/article/37e595665f2f4b34a4153ff532a71883 EN ES FR IT eng spa fre ita Milano University Press https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/1028 https://doaj.org/toc/2035-7680 2035-7680 doi:10.13130/2035-7680/1028 https://doaj.org/article/37e595665f2f4b34a4153ff532a71883 Altre Modernità, Vol 0, Iss 5, Pp 45-59 (2011) Canada First Nations oggetto materiale conservazione restituzione proprietà culturale performance Language and Literature P Literature (General) PN1-6790 article 2011 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.13130/2035-7680/1028 2023-09-03T00:39:31Z 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 in museum displays, the codes of conservation and repatriation will be introduced in relation to the notion of native title and cultural property. The MOA will be used as a case in point to explore practices of negotiation with native peoples. The indigenous worldview regarding the use of objects and the performance of a living culture will be presented as opposed to the conventional aesthetic appreciation and exhibition of cultural objects. The essay will then illustrate how museums are produced and organised according to ideologically relevant standpoints in specific times and places, and how visitor-oriented practices should address a critical reading of dynamics of power and knowledge control in contemporary societies. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles British Columbia ENVELOPE(-125.003,-125.003,54.000,54.000) Canada Moa ENVELOPE(15.184,15.184,67.286,67.286) |
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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 in museum displays, the codes of conservation and repatriation will be introduced in relation to the notion of native title and cultural property. The MOA will be used as a case in point to explore practices of negotiation with native peoples. The indigenous worldview regarding the use of objects and the performance of a living culture will be presented as opposed to the conventional aesthetic appreciation and exhibition of cultural objects. The essay will then illustrate how museums are produced and organised according to ideologically relevant standpoints in specific times and places, and how visitor-oriented practices should address a critical reading of dynamics of power and knowledge control in contemporary societies. |
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Il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del MOA di Vancouver |
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Il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del MOA di Vancouver |
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Il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del MOA di Vancouver |
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il museo di antropologia come museo culturale: il caso del moa di vancouver |
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Milano University Press |
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2011 |
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Altre Modernità, Vol 0, Iss 5, Pp 45-59 (2011) |
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