A palace as legacy

The former French colonial museum - perspectives from the inside

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2391111
AutoresAnne Monjaret (0000-0002-9838-123X, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris, France), Mélanie Roustan (0009-0005-7985-7238, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume22
Fascículo2
Páginas216-236
Data de publicação2017-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Material Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1359-1835 • E-ISSN: 1460-3586
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1359183517704550
OpenAlexW2607407893
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas15

The Musée des Colonies was founded in 1931 in the Palais de la Porte Dorée, built for the Colonial Exhibition in Paris. Over the century, the lasting nature of the architecture has stood in counterpoint to the changing orientations of the museum as an institution, from arts to immigration. To what extent does the building continue to bear the stamp of its origins? Is a reversal of colonial material culture possible? This ethnography provides accounts of institutional discourses and employees' memories collected by the authors, who have been conducting fieldwork on the site for 15 years. In focusing on permanent material culture (the building housing the museum) rather than on the circulation and changing status of collections, the authors provide an original take on colonial remains in France. They also set milestones on the specificities of permanency and monumentality in material culture approaches

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Articulation (sociology · Colonialism · Counterpoint · Ethnography · Exhibition · Immigration · Institution · Material culture · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Architecture