The Museum, the Colony, and the Planet: Territories of the Imperial Imagination

IF 1.1 2区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Public Culture Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1215/08992363-8742232

A. Appadurai

引用次数: 2

Abstract

The primary argument of this essay is that the modern Western museum form is a critical site in which to understand the five centuries in which Europe dominated much of the rest of the world. In this imperial epoch, the world was shrunk to the museum and the museum was expanded to represent the colonized world, and nonhuman objects and human subjects were trafficked in connected ways. Now that we may be entering a planetary epoch, and the beginning of the end of globalization, there is an opportunity to build a new way to collect, curate, display, and circulate material forms outside the empire of the modernist museum.

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博物馆、殖民地和星球:帝国想象的领土

这篇文章的主要论点是，现代西方博物馆的形式是一个重要的网站，以了解五个世纪以来，欧洲主导了世界的大部分地区。在这个帝国时代，世界被缩小到博物馆，博物馆被扩大到代表被殖民的世界，非人类的物品和人类的主体被以相互关联的方式贩运。现在，我们可能正在进入一个行星时代，全球化结束的开始，有机会在现代主义博物馆帝国之外建立一种新的方式来收集、策划、展示和流通物质形式。

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Public Culture Multiple-

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2.10

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6.70%

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