TRACING THREADS OF HISTORY: Rediscovering Indonesian Textiles at the Brooklyn Museum

IF 0.7 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY
Meghan Bill
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Choices that admit things to, or omit things from, museum collections rely on institutional and individual assumptions about value, ownership, skill, history, and people. Historical decisions about what was worth collecting, how collections should be organized, who would oversee collections care, and what uses collections could serve reverberate through the years, affecting museums’ abilities to research, exhibit, and engage collections. Using recent research into one Balinese slendang in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection, this essay examines how the Museum’s frameworks and curatorial assumptions enabled the neglect of nearly 200 Indonesian textiles for decades. It examines how the Museum parsed collection categories, how Indonesian textiles complicated and confounded those categories, and how the ensuing inattention inadvertently enabled a well-preserved collection. By attempting to weave the textiles’ collecting histories into narratives of their embedded colonial and institutional histories, it hopes to rekindle their usefulness for scholars, for communities, and for the Museum.

追寻历史的线索:在布鲁克林博物馆重新发现印度尼西亚纺织品
博物馆藏品的选择取决于机构和个人对价值、所有权、技能、历史和人的假设。关于什么值得收藏、如何组织藏品、谁来监督藏品的保管、藏品的用途等历史决定,多年来一直在回响,影响着博物馆研究、展览和吸引藏品的能力。本文通过对布鲁克林博物馆(Brooklyn Museum)藏品中的一件巴厘岛细长织物的最新研究,探讨了博物馆的框架和策展人的假设是如何导致近200件印度尼西亚纺织品在几十年里被忽视的。它研究了博物馆如何解析藏品类别,印度尼西亚纺织品如何使这些类别变得复杂和混乱,以及随后的疏忽如何无意中使藏品得以保存完好。通过尝试将纺织品的收集历史编织成其嵌入的殖民和制度历史的叙述,它希望重新点燃它们对学者、社区和博物馆的有用性。
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Museum Anthropology
Museum Anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY-
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0.80
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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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