Introduction: Repatriation and Ritual, Repatriation as Ritual
2017 (engelsk)Inngår i: Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, ISSN 2049-6729, E-ISSN 2049-6737, nr 5, s. 1-8Artikkel i tidsskrift, Editorial material (Annet vitenskapelig) Published
Abstract [en]
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-
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Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. nr 5, s. 1-8
Emneord [en]
coproduction, repatriation, ritual, ritual function, ritual theory
HSV kategori
Forskningsprogram
kulturantropologi
Identifikatorer
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-150491DOI: 10.3167/armw.2017.050102OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-150491DiVA, id: diva2:1168464
Forskningsfinansiär
Swedish Research Council
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