Convenors
Mohan Gautam
European University of West & East
Renato Athias
Departament of Anthropology and Museology/UFPE
Abstract
This panel is proposing a very specific and a unique look at the museums in contemporary. In each movement, in the past, a certain type of insertion of the anthropologist in the practices of the discipline as well as reveals singular moments in the history of the intersection of Anthropology and History Museum. In a first move, have an evolutionary and positivist strand of Anthropology, where the collection of objects and their conservation in museums expressed the constitution of collections of reliability for research; a second movement , we have the creation and institutionalization of so-called ” ethnographic museums ” – established models that linked the study of the preservation of cultural objects collected during field research particularities . In the third movement, anthropologists became interested in ethnography museums as symptoms of social practices and spaces of power conjugated value systems converting artifacts consecrated goods (logical collectors ); cultural expressions and ways of doing in “heritage assets”; rituals in public performances; people “representatives” and “spokesmen” of ethnic groups and communities . This panel aims to promote the gathering of anthropologists in their professional craft of participating museums is articulated to the specific practices of “ethnographic museum”, “museums in contemporary ethnographies” is performing. Also intends to open a reflection on the specificity of the “ethnographic museum” and the new modalities of museums associated with it arising from or as “indigenous museums” , “social museums” , the “eco-museum” . The award event will draw some proposals and suggestions for future developments.
panel presented by IUAES Commission on Museums and Cultural Heritage (COMACH)