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- Gustafsson Reinius, Lotten, 1965-
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The Ritual Labor of Reconciliation : An Autoethnography of a Return of Human Remains
- 2017
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Ingår i: Museum Worlds. - : Berghahn Books. - 2049-6729 .- 2049-6737. ; 5:1, s. 74-87
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Having a dual perspective as researcher of expressive culture and museum curator, I engage in the ceremonial aspects of repatriation through a practice-based "museology from within." Focusing on a handover of human remains by the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm to indigenous claimants from Australia (2004), I combine material from my own participant observation with sources such as interviews and written and photographic documentation. The aim is to bring an autoethno-graphic-perspective to a discussion on the ritual dynamics of repatriation. The transfer of custody and right of interpretation was accomplished with a ceremonial process, co-created by museum staff and indigenous claimants. Drawing on differing cultural scripts as well as on improvised interplay, participants engaged in turn taking and intercultural translation of symbolic communication. Certain themes were ritualized redundantly, such as mutual exchange and reconciliation, but there also existed the more paradoxical copresence of seclusion and openness, closure and continuation.
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- Hegardt, Johan
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History between Red Brackets : The Cold War in History Museums around the Baltic Sea
- 2019
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Ingår i: Museum Worlds. - : Berghahn Books. - 2049-6729 .- 2049-6737. ; 7:1, s. 165-181
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article derives from the research project entitled "Art, Culture and Conflict: Transformations of Museums and Memory Culture around the Baltic Sea after 1989;" which was financed by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies, Sodertorn University. It discusses how history museums in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have reacted to the fall of the Iron Curtain and the conclusion of the Soviet occupation of the three Baltic states. It argues that the Cold War is understood by the museums as a special historical epoch not comparable to any other historical period in these six countries. It concludes that to be able to deal with this particular point in history we either need to metaphorically put the Cold War in between red brackets, as it were, which makes it possible to address the Cold War when needed, or to place it outside the historical narrative of the modern rise of the five discussed nation-states.
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- Hegardt, Johan, et al.
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Translated Objects : The Olov Janse Case
- 2014
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Ingår i: Museum Worlds. - : Berghahn Books. - 2049-6729 .- 2049-6737. ; 2:1, s. 42-62
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the movements of archaeological and ethnographic objects and museum collections connected with the Swedish-born archaeologist and ethnographer Olov R. T. Janse (1892–1985). Janse pursued a cosmopolitan career in the years between 1920 and 1960, in and between the national contexts of Sweden, France, Indochina, the Philippines, and the United States, where he found himself in different political contexts such as colonialism, nationalism, and the Cold War. He initiated object exchanges between French and Swedish museums, and he collected archaeological and ethnographic objects from Indochina and the Philippines for museums in Sweden, France, and the United States. The complexity of object movements in the wake of Olov Janse's career suggests that we should think and talk about object mobility in terms of translation rather than simple transmission. In seven sections, each exploring one chapter of Janse's life, we discuss how changes in world politics became entangled with changes in Janse's own position as an archaeologist and ethnographer, affecting the movements of objects and contributing to an active translation of their meaning.
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- Peers, Laura, et al.
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Introduction : Repatriation and Ritual, Repatriation as Ritual
- 2017
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Ingår i: Museum Worlds. - : Berghahn Books. - 2049-6729 .- 2049-6737. ; :5, s. 1-8
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This special section of Museum Worlds explores the entire process of repatriation as a set of rituals enacted by claimants and museum staff: a set of highlighted performances enacting multiple sets of cosmological beliefs, symbolic systems, and political structures. Some of the rituals of repatriation occur within the space of Indigenous ceremonies; others happen within the museum spaces of collections storage and the boardroom; others, such as handover ceremonies, are coproduced and culturally hybrid. From the often obsessive bureaucracy associated with repatriation claims to the affective moment of handover, repatriation articulates a moral landscape where memory, responsibility, guilt, identity, sanctity, place, and ownership are given a ritual form. Theory about ritual is used here to situate the articles in this section, which together form a cross-cultural examination of ritual meaning and form across repatriation processes.
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- Prince, David, et al.
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The Future of Museums : Why Real Matters More Than Ever
- 2023
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Ingår i: Museum Worlds. - New York : Berghahn Books. - 2049-6729 .- 2049-6737. ; 11:1, s. 131-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Originating from the Ancient Greek Mouseion early examples, such as the Institute for Philosophy in Alexandria (founded c. 280 BC), museums (1) were temple-like buildings set apart for study, and often associated with libraries. Scholars arrived from all parts of the (mainly Mediterranean) world not simply to consult the material but to meet like-minded people. Museums were places of intellectual and social commerce in an age when the concept of a university was in its infancy. As such they were found in the commercial heart of their locations; their buildings were surrounded by taverns, cafes, public spaces, temples, and shops where the scholar could be refreshed after a day's study. Two thousand years later, town planners would define such places as being “cultural quarters.” There are an estimated 105,000 museums in over 200 countries which, collectively, cover every field of artistic, scientific, cultural, and historical endeavor (Statista 2022a). Museums of all types (national, not-for-profit, local authority, university) collectively make a significant contribution to the tourism, leisure, and educational infrastructures of their countries. As distinct from public libraries (themselves of great antiquity), most modern museums would align their statement of purpose with the definition recently approved by the International Council of Museums (ICOM 2022): “collecting, conserving, documenting, interpreting and displaying objects of artistic, cultural, or scientific significance for study and public education and enjoyment.”
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- Zabalueva, Olga, 1984-
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100% Fight - The History of Sweden, the Swedish History Museum, Stockholm
- 2018
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Ingår i: Museum Worlds. - : Berghahn Books. - 2049-6729 .- 2049-6737. ; 6:1, s. 155-157
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The exhibition being displayed at the Swedish History Museum (Historiska Museet) in Stockholm until 9 December 2018, however, tells a different story. 100% Fight - The History of Sweden is a touring exhibition and a part of the Heterogenous Heritage - Changing the Future project that focuses on diversifying the narratives about Swedish history and identity through exhibitions, publications, and a public conference called 100% Fight - The Future of Sweden. "The haters will love to hate this," says a review in the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper (Bäckstedt 2018), and it is hard to argue with this statement. 100% Fight serves up a Molotov cocktail of women, national minorities, transgender persons, people with disabilities, and refugees that is set ablaze with issues pertaining to the right to practice one's religion and the right to one's sexual identity-indeed, every human right that has ever been questioned or limited. There is no sign of such heated debates in the adjacent Viking history halls, revealing the true success of the exhibition: it provokes a wide range of reactions and motivates people to talk and become more engaged with one another and with the material.
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