ISSN:
0892-8339
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Museum anthropology : journal of the Council for Museum Anthropology
Publ. der Quelle:
Arlington, Va. : American Anthropological Assoc.
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 40, No. 1 (2017), p. 4-17
DDC:
100
Abstract:
This article is an ethnographic account of visitors’ reception of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, France. The museum, opened in 2006 as part of a renewal of French ethnographic museums, presents works from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Oceania that were collected in colonial contexts. Based on interviews and observations of museum staff and visitors, we describe the scenography as an invitation to a journey that leads visitors to feel a sense of disorientation. The visit raises important questions about art and material culture, which we explore in the second part about the nature of the objects. The museum proposes no answers nor provides any historical contextualization, with the effect being that the “others” have vanished. Their objects are conserved in a place where visitors simultaneously encounter “others” and their disappearance. In the museum's silence, its method of display constructs the way visitors establish the connection between the exhibition and French colonialism.
Note:
Copyright: © 2017 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved.
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/muan.12127/abstract
URL:
https://search.proquest.com/docview/1874688640
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