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Author(s): | Dias, N. |
Date: | 2015 |
Title: | From French Indochina to Paris and back again: The circulation of objects, people, and information, 1900-1932 |
Journal title: | Museum and Society |
Volume: | 13 |
Number: | 1 |
Pages: | 7 - 21 |
Reference: | Dias, N. (2015). From French Indochina to Paris and back again: The circulation of objects, people, and information, 1900-1932. Museum and Society, 13(1), 7-21. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i1.314 |
ISSN: | 1479-8360 |
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.29311/mas.v13i1.314 |
Keywords: | Museum Ethnology Anthropology Mauss Rivet Colonial Indochina Collecting practices Circulation of objects and information |
Abstract: | This article examines the ways in which the processes of collecting, ordering and governing were imbricated both in the metropole and in the colony. Focused on the ethnographic missions carried out by the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro(MET) and by the École Française d’Extrême Orient from 1900 to the 1930s, the paper explores the network of local collectors, the methodological protocols and standards, the collecting practices, and how objects were gathered in the field for displays at the MET in Paris and at the forthcoming ethnological museum at Dalat in French Indochina (what is now Vietnam). The article argues that the circulation of objects, and the information related to those objects, conceives both the metropole and the colony as sites for the production of ethnological knowledge. It also seeks to demonstrate that collecting practices entailed distinct government effects both in metropolitan France and in colonial Indochina. |
Peerreviewed: | yes |
Access type: | Open Access |
Appears in Collections: | CRIA-RI - Artigos em revistas científicas internacionais com arbitragem científica |
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