Are Museums Allowed to Keep a Secret
Secret and Sacred Objects at the Weltmuseum Wien
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5805396 |
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| Authors | Anna Bottesi (University of Turin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 53-67 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Museum Worlds (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-6729 • E-ISSN: 2049-6737 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/armw.2021.090105 |
| OpenAlex | W3207356338 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Today many ethnographic museums are questioning the hierarchical power relationships implicit in the act of representing the cultures of others. In this article I analyze the way that the curator of the South American section of the Weltmuseum Wien chose to deal with the exhibition of sacred and secret objects, that is, those things that only specific categories of individuals are allowed to view. If we exclude storage as a possible solution, what is the proper way to treat artifacts such as these? How should the expectations of an audience attracted to the idea of the exotic, and perhaps forbidden, be satisfied? How can this challenge be transformed into an opportunity to reflect about what we have, or have not, the right to do
Chose · Section (typography · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Museums and Cultural Heritage
Museums and communities
Routes
On Longing
The Interpretation of Cultures
Exhibiting cultures
Cultural Memory and Early Civilization
Museums And Source Communities
Colonising memory
Networks, Agents and Objects
Habsburg Colonial
Archaeology and the Postcolonial Critique
Looking back ahead
Cultural Heritage Rights
Objects and Others
O retrato de um menino Bororo
Inalienable Wealth
One Hundred Years of Ethnological Theory in the German-Speaking Countries
Western hegemony in archaeological heritage management
| Highly cited | No |
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