O museu como lugar de representação do outro

O MUSEU COMO LUGAR DE REPRESENTAÇÃO DO OUTRO

Alice Duarte

Antropóloga

Faculdade de Letras do Porto

While working in historiography of the anthropological knowledge it appears as coherent to study the level of association/dissociation between anthropology and anthropological museums, relating this level to the different mechanisms of objectivation of knowledge which the discipline has been utilizing during its development. Focusing our attention on the two last decades, this paper aims to analize the recent movement of approach of anthropology and the museological institution/museographic practice, which took peace in the beginning of the 1980s, studying it together with the contemporary reformulations of the discipline. Thus relating the approach movement to the epistemological and ideological contemporary disruptures as well as to the type of anthropological knowledge they underlying.

En procédant à l’historiographie de la connaissance anthropologique, il est légitime de questionner le degré d’association/dissociation entre l’anthropologie et les musées anthropologiques en le mettant en rapport avec les différents mécanismes d’objectivation du savoir auquel la discipline a fait appel au cours de son développement. Bornant l’étude aux deux dernières decennies, dans cet article nous nous proposons analyser le movement assez récent, on le repère au début des années 80, de rapprochements entre l’anthropologie et l’institution muséologique/pratique muséographique en le rapportant aux reformulations disciplinaires contemporaines. C’est-à-dire, en le rapportant aux ruptures epistémologiques et idéologiques contemporaines et au type de connaissance anthropologique y sous-jacent.

Procedendo à historiografia do conhecimento antropológico é legitimo equacionarmos o grau de associação/dissociação entre a antropologia e os museus antropológicos, relacionando-o com os diferentes mecanismos de objectivação do saber a que a disciplina