Museums,Collections and Social Repair in Vietnam
Issued Date
Copyright Date
2023
Resource Type
Language
eng
Book
Book
File Type
application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
104
ISBN
978-1-032-18790-7
Rights Holder(s)
สถาบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
Author(s)
Abstract
Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in his discussion on how the current global Westernized hegemony treats specific historical events, events chosen for their relevance to the text of Western dominance, has addressed absences (or silences as 'inherent in the creation of sources, the first moment of historical production' (Trouillot, 1995, p. 51). People and places that are designated 'Third World' often find their history has (or has been)
'disappeared'. He references complex historiographical occurrences of this process of historical production, whereby black and poor societies were not just physically ostracized, but in a sense mentally too as they basically
'disappeared' from the historical text. He states: 'History reveals itself only through the production of specific narratives. What matters most are the process and conditions of such narratives .
... Only through that overlap can we
discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences others.
Table of contents
Content--List of figures-- Acknowledgements-- 1 Introduction: Museums,Collections and Social repair 1 , 2 Museums,Marititime Threats and Witnessing 15, 3 Museums,Relics and the Work for the Dead 30, 4 Museums,Documents and Social Repair 51, 5 Museums, Testimony and Curating the Dead 69, 6 Conclusion: Remaking the Future 82 -- Biliography 89 -- Index 99 --
Sponsorship
Routledge research on museums and heritage in Asia