N Brichet
Biographic Data
| ID | 33018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Brichet |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Brichet |
| SIGNATURE | BRICHET N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0833-115X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Epidemic objects in museums. Cholera, storytelling and ecological disturbance
The Covid19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that global interconnectedness may explode in virulent contagion. Against this background, the article looks to another disease outbreak and engages an object from a historical cholera epidemic, namely a nineteenth century sealed flask containing gut secretion from a Nordic cholera patient. The so-called cholera bottle, now held in Copenhagen Medical Museion, works as an “epidemic object”, implying…
Mining for Greenlandic self-government
This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of landscape specificities, and explores how the pro…
A Piece of Greenland? Making Marketable and Artisan Gemstones
This article explores the emergence of a Greenlandic mineral resource landscape against the background of the current establishment of an industrial ruby mine in Greenland. Anthropological fieldwork combined with a close reading of scientific reports, articles, and geological assessments about Greenlandic gemstones show a recurrent feature, namely that Greenlandic minerals get scaled and valued in ambiguous ways. This ambiguity is telling of a ty…
A Postcolonial Dilemma Tale from the Harbour of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands
The port of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas has long been a vibrant centre for ship trafficking in the Caribbean, as it was during Danish colonial rule starting in 1672. In 1917, Denmark officially sold and left what became the US Virgin Islands. Not everybody left, though. The Danish-owned West Indian Company, which owned the majority of the St. Thomas port and its attendant facilities, stayed until 1993. At that point the harbour was sold to the…
Industrious Landscaping
This article has a twofold ambition. It offers a history of landscaping at Søby brown coal beds—a former mining site in western Denmark—and a methodological discussion of how to write such a study. Exploring this specific industrial landscape through a series of projects that have made different natural resources appear, we show that even what is recognized as resources shifts over time according to radically different and unpredictable agendas. …
Timely rubies. Temporality and Greenlandic gems
Figurer uden grund. Museumsansamlinger og globale klimaforandringer
Denne artikel har to nøje sammenhængende forehavender: Dels skriver den en udstilling frem på baggrund af et etnografisk indsamlingsprojekt, hvor bestemte genstande er hjembragt fra hele verden for at kaste lys over de globale klima- forandringer. Dels afprøver den et særligt analytisk greb om disse genstande til at belyse, hvordan ting overhovedet kan komme til syne som objekter i antro- pologiske analyser. Dermed udforsker artiklen overordnet, …
Awkward Relations and Universal Aspirations
In this article, I investigate some of the artifacts that were involved in the reconstruction of a so‐called common cultural heritage site, a collaboration between the University of Ghana and the National Museum of Denmark. The ambition is to explore how these locally used artifacts evoked universal aspirations and thereby to discuss how the emergence of global heritage through different collaborative practices may be studied. Inspired by the wor…
Der er fedtede fingeraftryk overalt på tal
Intet resumé
Permanent exhibitions. Luomus, Natural History Museum of Helsinki, Finland
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Timely rubies. Temporality and Greenlandic gems
Mining for Greenlandic self-government
This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of landscape specificities, and explores how the pro…
Awkward Relations and Universal Aspirations
In this article, I investigate some of the artifacts that were involved in the reconstruction of a so‐called common cultural heritage site, a collaboration between the University of Ghana and the National Museum of Denmark. The ambition is to explore how these locally used artifacts evoked universal aspirations and thereby to discuss how the emergence of global heritage through different collaborative practices may be studied. Inspired by the wor…
Permanent exhibitions. Luomus, Natural History Museum of Helsinki, Finland
_
Der er fedtede fingeraftryk overalt på tal
Intet resumé
Figurer uden grund. Museumsansamlinger og globale klimaforandringer
Denne artikel har to nøje sammenhængende forehavender: Dels skriver den en udstilling frem på baggrund af et etnografisk indsamlingsprojekt, hvor bestemte genstande er hjembragt fra hele verden for at kaste lys over de globale klima- forandringer. Dels afprøver den et særligt analytisk greb om disse genstande til at belyse, hvordan ting overhovedet kan komme til syne som objekter i antro- pologiske analyser. Dermed udforsker artiklen overordnet, …
Awkward Relations and Universal Aspirations
In this article, I investigate some of the artifacts that were involved in the reconstruction of a so‐called common cultural heritage site, a collaboration between the University of Ghana and the National Museum of Denmark. The ambition is to explore how these locally used artifacts evoked universal aspirations and thereby to discuss how the emergence of global heritage through different collaborative practices may be studied. Inspired by the wor…
Industrious Landscaping
This article has a twofold ambition. It offers a history of landscaping at Søby brown coal beds—a former mining site in western Denmark—and a methodological discussion of how to write such a study. Exploring this specific industrial landscape through a series of projects that have made different natural resources appear, we show that even what is recognized as resources shifts over time according to radically different and unpredictable agendas. …
Timely rubies. Temporality and Greenlandic gems
A Postcolonial Dilemma Tale from the Harbour of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands
The port of Charlotte Amalie on St. Thomas has long been a vibrant centre for ship trafficking in the Caribbean, as it was during Danish colonial rule starting in 1672. In 1917, Denmark officially sold and left what became the US Virgin Islands. Not everybody left, though. The Danish-owned West Indian Company, which owned the majority of the St. Thomas port and its attendant facilities, stayed until 1993. At that point the harbour was sold to the…
A Piece of Greenland? Making Marketable and Artisan Gemstones
This article explores the emergence of a Greenlandic mineral resource landscape against the background of the current establishment of an industrial ruby mine in Greenland. Anthropological fieldwork combined with a close reading of scientific reports, articles, and geological assessments about Greenlandic gemstones show a recurrent feature, namely that Greenlandic minerals get scaled and valued in ambiguous ways. This ambiguity is telling of a ty…
Mining for Greenlandic self-government
This article explores the emergence of Greenland as an Anthropocene island through anthropological fieldwork in and around the decommissioned Nalunaq goldmine in the south of the country. The article takes off from the idea that Anthropocene activities are characterized by the invention, movement, and marketing of seemingly mobile resource units that can be identified and invested in regardless of landscape specificities, and explores how the pro…
Epidemic objects in museums. Cholera, storytelling and ecological disturbance
The Covid19 pandemic has made it painfully clear that global interconnectedness may explode in virulent contagion. Against this background, the article looks to another disease outbreak and engages an object from a historical cholera epidemic, namely a nineteenth century sealed flask containing gut secretion from a Nordic cholera patient. The so-called cholera bottle, now held in Copenhagen Medical Museion, works as an “epidemic object”, implying…
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