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This volume is the first of its kind in focusing on the temporalities of museum work. Wayne Modest, Peter Pels and contributors analyze concerns around the function of museums in relation to time, inquiring whether museums can ever be successful in arresting time or setting themselves outside of time.
Table des matières
Foreword: Time, Temporality, and Objects Introduction: Time of and for the Museum
Part One: Anxious Times 1. Time is not What it Used to Be: Towards an Anthropology of Time for Museums 2. Material Culture and Transience 3. Playing with Time in the 19th-century Art Museum 4. Anxiety and Possibility: Preliminary sketches on museums and carnival time
5. "Another part of the circle": Indigenous temporalities in and out of Canada's art (hi)story 6. Time and Indigeneity in Museum Practice: Curating Indigenous Contemporary Cultures and Arts in Mexico 7. Limbo Time: Museums, Caribbean Temporality, and the Wounds of History 8. Stockpiling the Past for an Unpredictable Future. Techniques of Preparedness in Anthropology Museums 9. Thinking through a Lens of Impermanence 10. Dreamtime and Disintegration: Contemporary Art and the Ethnographic Museum 11. The Porcupine of Time: Mediating and Managing Multiple Temporalities in Exhibitions 12. Materializing History: Time and Telos at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews Epilogue: The Futures of the (Ethnographic) Museum. Index
A propos de l'auteur
Wayne Modest is Director of Content of the Wereldmuseum in the Netherlands, and Head of its Research Center for Material Culture. He is also a Professor in the Faculty of Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Peter Pels is Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Africa at Leiden University, the Netherlands.
Résumé
Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to a colonial past?
