Collecting as Ordering or Scattering; Scattering as Destruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3715500 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Padma Kaimal (Colgate University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 1039 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13111039 |
| OpenAlex | W4308117761 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Collecting and scattering may seem like opposites, but they are in fact complementary, interdependent actions. To collect religious art and other objects is also to scatter them. Though collecting can sometimes be virtuous, it is always disruptive to some previous order. Reversing that kind of disruption, which occurred on a grand scale during European explorations and colonization of much of the world, is not always possible, but telling the stories of those disruptions is an important first step for museums to take. A next step is to engage in meaningful conversations with places from which objects have been collected
Business · Cartography · Epistemology · Geography · Interdependence · Optics · Physics · Reversing · Scattering · Social science · Sociology · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |