摘要
The talk explores the colonial legacies, current predicaments, and future possibilities for ethnological (anthropological, ethnographic, Volkerkunde) museums in Europe and North America. Today, such institutions are challenged to justify their existence in response to political pressure from the Right and the Left and from neo-liberal governance. In response, many are transforming themselves into centers for “world arts and cultures.” They experiment with new spaces of performance and dialogical modes of presentation. Their audiences and stakeholders diversify in sometimes contradictory ways. The lecturesurveys a range of current responses, and itdiscusses new practices of display and reception. It argues that (post) ethnological museums can stimulate serious public awareness of cross-cultural translation in a decentered world.
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