Donors, Loaners, Dealers and Swappers: The Relationship behind the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Wingfield, Chris

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8222-3_5

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“…Swinney (2012) has characterized museum registration as a rite de passage through which selected objects become museum objects, dislocated from their point of origin and subject to the 'museum effect', which approaches sacralization (Alberti 2011, p. 193, with further references). Registration, or accessioning (the terms are used almost interchangeably), is a powerful tool, marking a significant act of detachment-and reattachment-as the object is gathered into the museum's archival project (Wingfield 2011;Alberti 2009, pp. 131-136).…”

Section: The Museum As Archivementioning

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The body in the box: archiving the Egyptian mummy

Riggs

2016

Arch Sci

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Linking the archive in its literal sense to the metaphorical repercussions of 'the archive' in a conceptual sense opens new lines of inquiry into the processes employed in museums to catalogue and store their objects. Archaeology-which was influential in Freud's theories of memory and Derrida's 'Freudian impression', Archive Fever-invites particular consideration in this respect, especially through the collection and interpretation of ancient Egyptian human remains. Embedded in colonial and imperial discourses of race, the Egyptian mummy confronted the West with the uncanny survival of what it had conceived as its near-double. The fates of two Egyptian bodies, a mummy dissected in the 1820s and a skeleton excavated in the 1920s, exemplify the archiving of these archaeological objects, whose multiple traces speak to what Derrida characterized as the archive's self-destructive drive, as its objects (and bodies) resist archival containment. This theoretical point encourages museums to intervene in and through their archives, for the creation of alternative histories and futures.

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Section: The Museum As Archivementioning

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The body in the box: archiving the Egyptian mummy

Riggs

2016

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“…Parmi les thèmes les plus souvent étudiés dans le cadre d'une analyse anthropologique des musées, on retrouve la muséographie en tant que discours créateur influant sur la perception des oeuvres par le public, ainsi que les relations entre musées et artistes ou communautés créatrices. Le moment crucial de l'entrée d'une ou plusieurs pièces dans une collection permet de réfléchir aux relations entretenues entre musées et collectionneurs, bienfaiteurs et marchands d'art, première mé-diation entre l'institution muséale et le monde extérieur 2 . Loin d'être neutres, les agents impliqués dans l'acquisition de nouveaux objets par un musée sont influencés par le contexte social, politique et économique dans lequel ils vivent, par les réseaux auxquels ils ont accès et par leurs champs d'intérêt personnels.…”

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