Migrant Heritage
A Dialogue of Objects and Memories in a Barcelona Ethnographic Museum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2289537 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel Izard (0000-0002-8254-1833, Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author), Gemma Celigueta (0000-0002-2106-3073, Universitat de Barcelona) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 140-152 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0892-8339 • E-ISSN: 1548-1379 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/muan.12255 |
| OpenAlex | W4288757934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article describes the "Dialogues with Africa" project of the Barcelona Museum of World Cultures, which consisted of workshops using personal objects of African guests residing in Catalonia, and objects from the museum's African collections. The dialogues revealed the existence of both a migrant memory connected with objects chosen for their capacity to evoke origins and a museum memory linked with artifacts that were chosen as representing distant cultures. The main aim is to describe this migrant memory in relation to the objects and analyze how it connects with the museum's institutional memory in order to contribute to the discussion of the role of ethnographic museums in a plural society. We suggest that incorporating migrant memory will make possible an opening up to new meanings for objects that have been turned into heritage from an exoticizing standpoint, and that this is in keeping with a more inclusive anthropological museology
Art · Collective memory · Ethnography · Linguistics · Media studies · Plural · Political science · Relation (database · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Identity and Heritage · History · Museology · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy
Routes
Museums and Memory
The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies
Ethnicity, Inc.
Memorylands
Material culture and mass consumption
The Social Life of Things
Disciplining Memory
África y la Antropología española
Collective remembering
Cultural Property, Museums, and the Pacific
Mementoes as Transitional Objects in Human Displacement
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |