(Re)Making Collections - La Fabrique des collections: Origins, Trajectories & Reconnections/ Origines, trajectoires et reconnexions (Studies in Social Sciences and Humanities, 181) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9464596368 ISBN 13: 9789464596366

Publisher: Exhibitions International, 2024

Synopsis

• This collection of texts gives a broad overview of the collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium) in the form of recent and previously unpublished research, updated summaries of prior investigations, interviews, and artistic contributions
• Text in English and French

Provenance research for non-Western heritage in Europe is now a must in the field of museum studies and cultural policy studies, yet no scholarly work has scrutinised the collections of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (Belgium) as a whole.

While the institution's history and some of its scientific sections or collections have already been investigated, at times in great depth, this book provides new frameworks for interpretation in the light of current debates. Structured around two lines - the heritage field in historical and contemporary Belgo-Congolese contexts, and the more specific case of the Tervuren museum's collections (which, moreover, are neither solely cultural nor Central African) -, this collection of texts gives a broad overview in the form of recent and previously unpublished research, updated summaries of prior investigations, interviews, and artistic contributions.

The book also explores new trends in provenance research for colonial collections and evaluates both the possibilities and the limitations of such research, its implications for our understanding of colonial history as a whole, and the challenges facing museums today.

Text in English and French.

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Terwijl 'herkomstonderzoek' naar Europa's niet-westerse erfgoed een must is geworden in museaal onderzoek (en cultuurbeleid), zijn de collecties van het Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika in Tervuren (België) nooit in hun geheel kritisch onderzocht in een wetenschappelijk werk.
Hoewel de geschiedenis van de instelling en van sommige van haar wetenschappelijke afdelingen en/of collecties natuurlijk al onderzocht zijn - soms in diepgaande studies - biedt dit boek nieuwe interpretatiekaders in het licht va

Edition details

• Publisher: Exhibitions International
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 9464596368
• ISBN 13: 9789464596366
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Van Beurden Sarah, Gondola Didier, Lacaille Agnès