Intangible Cultural Heritage: 'Curating' the Human.

IF 1.5 4区医学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Culture Medicine and Psychiatry Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1007/s11013-022-09797-y

Iben M Gjødsbøl

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Abstract

'Nostalgic environments' are increasingly being created in museums and institutional care settings for people with dementia, to support residents' capacities for memory and recognition. Drawing upon ethnography carried out in a public nursing home specialized in dementia care in Copenhagen, Denmark, this paper engages conceptually the employment of material heritage within dementia care environments, proposing dementia care as a 'curatorial' practice: caregivers act as 'curators' who re-establish and reorganize the 'meaning' of the residents by preserving their individual biographies and societal belonging. The analytical alignment of dementia care with the curating of cultural valuables reveals that the human is not only the subject within-and the creator of-cultural heritage, but also the object: the person with dementia is simultaneously an acting subject in care and an object for performances of the category of the human. As the curatorial care performed in nursing homes preserves not only individual, but also collective memories of what it takes to be human and belong in society, these institutions should be recognized as significant sites within society concerned with the production of meaning, value and cultural heritage.

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非物质文化遗产:“策展”人类。

博物馆和机构护理机构为痴呆症患者创造了越来越多的“怀旧环境”，以支持居民的记忆和识别能力。根据在丹麦哥本哈根一家专门从事痴呆症护理的公共疗养院开展的人种学研究，本文从概念上参与了痴呆症护理环境中物质遗产的使用，提出了痴呆症护理作为“策展”实践:护理人员作为“策展人”，通过保留他们的个人传记和社会归属感来重新建立和重组居民的“意义”。痴呆症护理与文化贵重物品管理的分析一致性表明，人类不仅是文化遗产的主体和创造者，而且是客体:痴呆症患者同时是护理的行为主体和人类类别表演的客体。由于在养老院进行的策展护理不仅保留了个人的记忆，而且保留了作为人类和属于社会的集体记忆，这些机构应该被认为是社会中与意义、价值和文化遗产生产有关的重要场所。

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期刊介绍： Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry is an international and interdisciplinary forum for the publication of work in three interrelated fields: medical and psychiatric anthropology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and related cross-societal and clinical epidemiological studies. The journal publishes original research, and theoretical papers based on original research, on all subjects in each of these fields. Interdisciplinary work which bridges anthropological and medical perspectives and methods which are clinically relevant are particularly welcome, as is research on the cultural context of normative and deviant behavior, including the anthropological, epidemiological and clinical aspects of the subject. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry also fosters systematic and wide-ranging examinations of the significance of culture in health care, including comparisons of how the concept of culture is operationalized in anthropological and medical disciplines. With the increasing emphasis on the cultural diversity of society, which finds its reflection in many facets of our day to day life, including health care, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry is required reading in anthropology, psychiatry and general health care libraries.