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Academic Anthropology and the Museum - Back to the Future (Paperback, illustrated edition)
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Academic Anthropology and the Museum - Back to the Future (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Series: New Directions in Anthropology
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The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and
politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing
interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is
to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in
particular are turning their attention again to museums, after
decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of
modern anthropology - so much so that the "social" and the
"material" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of
knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals
who might have benefitted from working on these material
representations of culture. Moreover it was forgotten that museums
do not only present the "pastness" of things. A great deal of what
goes on in contemporary museums is literally about planning the
shape of the future: making culture materialize involves mixing
things from the past, taking into account current visions, and
knowing that the scenes constructed will shape the perspectives of
future generations. However, the (re-)invention of museum
anthropology presents a series of challenges for academic teaching
and research, as well as for the work of cultural production in
contemporary museums - issues that are explored in this volume.
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