Academic Anthropology and the Museum

Back to the Future

AvMary Bouquet

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the "social" and the "material" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefitted from working on these material representations of culture. Moreover it was forgotten that museums do not only present the "pastness" of things. A great deal of what goes on in contemporary museums is literally about planning the shape of the future: making culture materialize involves mixing things from the past, taking into account current visions, and knowing that the scenes constructed will shape the perspectives of future generations. However, the (re-)invention of museum anthropology presents a series of challenges for academic teaching and research, as well as for the work of cultural production in contemporary museums - issues that are explored in this volume.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-12-01
Mått:140 x 216 x 15 mm
Vikt:349 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:New Directions in Anthropology
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Berghahn Books, Incorporated
ISBN:9781571813213

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Mary Bouquet teaches Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies at Utrecht University College. Her publications include Bringing It All Back Home to the Oslo University Ethnographic Museum , published by Scandinavian University Press (1996).

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"The book's central argument is well made." · Museum National"...focuses on anthropologists, but the consideration given to the relations between academic and museum worlds will be useful to any scholar with current affiliations or aspirations to engage with museum culture. In terms of the volume's original intent, as a work responding to the needs of those teaching and studying anthro-museology, it is an impressive accomplishment." · Anthropologica

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of illustrationsIntroduction: Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the FutureMary BouquetPART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE POST-COLONIAL MUSEUMChapter 1. The photological apparatus and the desiring machine: Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umista Centre, Alert BayBarbara SaundersChapter 2. Picturing the museum: photography and the work of mediation in the Third Portuguese EmpireNuno PortoChapter 3. On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artifactsEric VenbruxPART II: ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEUMS AND ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEOLOGY 'AT HOME'Chapter 4. Anthropology at home and in the museum: the case of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in ParisMartine SegalenChapter 5. 'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, Thirty Years LaterNélia DiasPART III: SCIENCE MUSEUMS AS AN ETHNOGRAPHIC CHALLENGEChapter 6. Towards an ethnography of museums: science, technology and usRoberto J. Gonzalez, Laura Nader and C. Jay OuChapter 7. Behind the Scenes at the Science Museum, London: Knowing, making and usingSharon MacdonaldPART IV: ANTHROPOLOGISTS AS CULTURAL PRODUCERSChapter 8. Unsettling the meaning: critical museology, art and anthropological discourseAnthony SheltonChapter 9. Inside out: cultural production in the museum and the academyJeanne CannizzoChapter 10. The art of exhibition making as a problem of translationMary BouquetPART V: LOOKING AHEADChapter 11. Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillasMichael M. AmesNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex