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Author(s) -

Karin Kaufmann

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

tsantsa – journal of the swiss anthropological association

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2673-5377

pISSN - 1420-7834

DOI - 10.36950/tsantsa.2019.24.6924

Subject(s) - exhibition , interpretation (philosophy) , ethnography , citizen journalism , meaning (existential) , sociology , media studies , knowledge production , epistemology , visual arts , aesthetics , art , political science , computer science , law , knowledge management , anthropology , philosophy , linguistics

This article discusses the curatorial strategy of open storage and its assumed potential to decolonize knowledge production in ethnographic museums. Showing masses of stored objects supposedly free from any institutional interpretation is thought to allow for shifting the authority over meaning-making from the museum to the public. Findings from public storeroom visits that were conducted in connection with a participatory exhibition project in an ethnographic museum call these assumptions into question.

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