Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: But what is tradition and what is the modern in museology?To answer this somewhat rhetorical question we would need to understand how museums and museology deal with time.In fact, the outdated opposition between modern and traditional, so rigidly defined in the West, has proven to be inadequate to explain the role and the functions of museums in the present.However, one cannot ignore that a linear perception of time as the steady march toward 1. Modernity here understood as the consolidation of colonial empires in Europe and its consequences, but also the subjugation of peoples and cultures in their fights for liberation, since their histories may be narrated mainly through colonial discourses produced by those in power (Mignolo, 1995).
Source: ICOFOM Study Series
DOI: 10.4000/iss.1961
Author: Bruno Brulon Soares
Institution: Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3047210317