Défense et illustration du Musée d’Ethnographie. Repairing Ethnography and exploring the notion of “French” American Collections through museum genealogies
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article brings together four episodes of French 19th century museal history through which to explore the tensions inherent to incorporating the (material) culture of others – in this case Pre-Columbian America – into national collections, and the process through which they become part of a national patrimoine. As a guiding thread, we use not a particular collection but the idea of “American French collections” and their association to a specific type of national institution that used them abundantly in its historical genealogy: the idea of a “French national museum of ethnography.” We offer a historical panorama where Amerindian and Pre-Columbian French collections found themselves at the heart of several debates regarding the definition and function of the museum and during which the need to “repair” – either an object, a national institution or a concept – was invoked.
Author: Stüssi Garcia, Susana
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W6921205709
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