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- Convenor:
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Mohan Gautam
(European University of West & East)
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- Track:
- Museum Anthropology
- Location:
- Kanaris Theatre, Museum
- Sessions:
- Thursday 8 August, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
The role of museum has shifted to an anthropological bridge between research and education. It is hampered with certain issues,such as, status rivalries, budgeting,ethnicity, identity , cultural heritage, etc. In such a situation, how a museum can survive and create a balance of co-existence?
Long Abstract:
During the era of colonial pluralism the minority ruling power collected objects and information of the majority people from the colonies, exhibiting about the uncivilized primitive cultures and social systems. With the growth of the science of anthropology research methods were developed and research continued. Museums displayed the cultures and the structural accounts of the concerned people were published.However, status rivalries continued. The museum curator was considered as a high clerk.Authenticity of the museum publications was doubted.
The budgeting authority and Ministry considered museum activities as non-productive and non-profitable. Entree fee was increased. Museum could have legitimized the cultures of the multicultural society and shown the process of ethnicity, identity formation and their will to live as an integrated society.
Museums need a new strategy to play its role in educating the people about an emerging globale society.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Thursday 8 August, 2013, -Paper short abstract:
La Reunion Island is a melting pot. These last decades, local Museum developments slowly improved the representativity of ethnicity and a so called geographical specificity. Allochtonous cultural heritage in France is an issue: La Reunion's Museums are displaying a French model of ethnical integration.
Paper long abstract:
La Reunion Island is part of the 'Archipel des Mascareignes' along with Mauritius and Rodrigues. And she is tightly related with the greater island, Madagascar. Ethically speaking, this French Departement -and former colony- is a true melting pot. With White Europeans, Africans from the continent and Madagascar, Arabs, Indian, Chinese and even aboriginal Australians, the tiny island is also worldwide.
Since the very beginning of Indentured labour in La Reunion Island, a former colony and now French Department, the only presence of Indian people changed the local culture. In the fields of natural medicine, religious matters and industrial involvements, the presence of a massively imported 'paid' labour force produced a very specific culture.
Museum developments in La Reunion these last decades slowly improved the representativity of ethnicity and a so called geographical specificity. Allochtonous cultural heritage in France is now an issue. Along with Sciences and techniques, La Reunion's Museums are displaying a kind of French model of ethnical integration.
The presentation will show how, in La Reunion Island, the culture displayed in Museum and Patrimonial facilities interacts with economics and ethnical issues.
Paper short abstract:
Polish ethnographic museums are the museums that represent the multicultural traditions of Poland. At the same time they are dedicated to Polish minorities. How and by whoe those minorirites are preseneted is worth attention.
Paper long abstract:
In 2012 the Ethnographic Laboratory Association carries out ethnographic research project "Polsih Etnographic museums and open-air-museum in the new reality", whose aim was to analyze the current situation of Polish ethnographic museum. In the assumption ethnographic museums, as well as open-air-museum had to collect, store, preserve and exhibit artifacts of traditional culture and after some time also popular. In our project we have focused on several areas: to look at both the educational activities carried out in museums, as well as issues showroom. Other area of our interest was the question of the representation of multicultural tradition in Poland. Ethnographic museums and heritage are the most unique museums that represent not only the multicultural past of Polish, but also are the only museums dedicated to national minorities, ethnic and religious. We want to show how the individual minorities (Jewish, German, Lithuanian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Lemko, Dutch and others) are presented in Polish museums.
Paper short abstract:
Museum policy has been planned to up todate the socio-cultural information documented,published and showed in exhibitions. The lack of government subsidies and continuous professional rivalries hinder the role of museums. How can we change it.
Paper long abstract:
The paper will focus the issues and problems confronted by the museum staff in documenting; cataloguing, collecting, publishing qnd exhibiting the objects to the public in their countries. Certain anthropological museum experts suffer with the professional rivalrires. They are not motivated to up todate the museum collections. In a multi-cultural society their task to reflect the cultures of various ethnic groups is never completed. Examples of many countries of Africa and Asia will be used. Finally an attempt will be made to discover a new strategy to solve problems.