BLIND SPOTS IN MUSEUM ANTHROPOLOGY: Ancient Egypt in the Ethnographic Museum

IF 0.7 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY
Alice Stevenson, Alice Williams
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In the past few decades, the literature in museum anthropology has advocated efforts to be more transparent about its colonial origins, address the historical injustices of imperial collecting, and rethink display narratives in collaboration with source communities. In this paper, however, we question the extent to which the epistemic and political predicaments underlying ethnographic representations are being fundamentally and systematically confronted. As we highlight with the example of ancient Egyptian material, it is apparent that significant parts of museum holdings remain freighted by unquestioned colonial and Eurocentric discourses. We employ a case study of the Egyptian material redisplayed in the “World Cultures” gallery of the Horniman Museum, London, to demonstrate how the ethnographic museum continues to unwittingly produce “silences” around collections. To redress the lacunae we provide examples of the way in which this body of material could be more meaningfully integrated within museological discourses that have informed the rethinking of other aspects of world culture.

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博物馆人类学的盲点:民族志博物馆中的古埃及
在过去的几十年里,博物馆人类学的文献倡导对其殖民起源更加透明,解决帝国收藏的历史不公正,并与来源社区合作重新思考展示叙述。然而,在本文中,我们质疑民族志表征背后的认识论和政治困境在多大程度上被从根本上和系统地面对。正如我们以古埃及材料为例所强调的那样,很明显,博物馆藏品的很大一部分仍然被毫无疑问的殖民和欧洲中心主义话语所承载。我们以在伦敦霍尼曼博物馆“世界文化”展厅重新展出的埃及材料为例,展示了民族志博物馆如何继续在藏品中不知不觉地制造“沉默”。为了弥补这一空白,我们提供了一些例子,说明这些材料可以更有意义地整合到博物馆学话语中,这些话语已经通知了对世界文化其他方面的重新思考。
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Museum Anthropology
Museum Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-
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0.80
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75.00%
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23
期刊介绍: Museum Anthropology seeks to be a leading voice for scholarly research on the collection, interpretation, and representation of the material world. Through critical articles, provocative commentaries, and thoughtful reviews, this peer-reviewed journal aspires to cultivate vibrant dialogues that reflect the global and transdisciplinary work of museums. Situated at the intersection of practice and theory, Museum Anthropology advances our knowledge of the ways in which material objects are intertwined with living histories of cultural display, economics, socio-politics, law, memory, ethics, colonialism, conservation, and public education.
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