Building an Indigenous Museum in the Vatican
Debates around the significance, function and social value of museums are still challenging museum practices and models. In particular, the demands of “source communities” for self-representation and self-emancipation in the global community continue to call into question the role of the museum as...
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Debates around the significance, function and social value of museums are still challenging museum practices and models. In particular, the demands of “source communities” for self-representation and self-emancipation in the global community continue to call into question the role of the museum as a catalyst for promoting social change across cultures. In this paper, I push this question further by discussing the desires of a group of Roman Catholic woodcarvers in central Asmat (Indonesian Papua) to build a museum for exhibiting their carvings in the Vatican. To them, the Vatican is not only the sacred centre of Catholicism but also an integral part of their mythical world of ancestors. After a brief examination of their considerations, I attempt to put their ambitious museum idea into dialogue with current debates on “the postcolonial museum” to highlight how it can dictate new directions for indigenising museums.
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| spelling | doaj.art-63f6f96009734256b58e45c4c7f884682023-10-05T09:16:35ZdeuBern Open PublishingSwiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology2813-52292813-52372020-09-012510.36950/tsantsa.2020.025.14Building an Indigenous Museum in the VaticanRoberto Costa0Macquarie University, Sydney Debates around the significance, function and social value of museums are still challenging museum practices and models. In particular, the demands of “source communities” for self-representation and self-emancipation in the global community continue to call into question the role of the museum as a catalyst for promoting social change across cultures. In this paper, I push this question further by discussing the desires of a group of Roman Catholic woodcarvers in central Asmat (Indonesian Papua) to build a museum for exhibiting their carvings in the Vatican. To them, the Vatican is not only the sacred centre of Catholicism but also an integral part of their mythical world of ancestors. After a brief examination of their considerations, I attempt to put their ambitious museum idea into dialogue with current debates on “the postcolonial museum” to highlight how it can dictate new directions for indigenising museums. https://journal-sa.ch/article/view/7036transcultural indigenous museumssocial changemuseum indigenisationAsmat woodcarversPapuaIndonesia |
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| title | Building an Indigenous Museum in the Vatican |
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| topic | transcultural indigenous museums social change museum indigenisation Asmat woodcarvers Papua Indonesia |
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