Bringing museums home. Anthropology as apprenticeship

• Autores: Valentina Gamberi
• Localización: Sharing cultures 2013: Proceedings of the 3 rd International Conference on Intangible Heritage / Sergio Lira (ed. lit.), Rogério Amoêda (ed. lit.), Cristina Pinheiro (ed. lit.), 2013, ISBN 978-989-98013-3-2, pág. 531
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This paper compares field data collected between 2008 and 2011 in two Alpineregions: the Fassa Valley, in the Italian Dolomites, and Flums, a small village in north-easternSwitzerland. The Museum Ladin de Fascia and the Maskenmuseum emphasise indigenoussocial and cultural patterns through a specific logic. The strategies and choices of each museum,however, inevitably entail the risk of conflicts with those artisans whose understanding oftradition and material culture is different. New exhibition spaces have become forms of reactionagainst the ‘official’ narrative. The assumptions of museum policies and those of museumanthropology change radically when discussed in domestic environments. This depends onnarrative emerging from the artefacts, as well as the performance taking place in a living arena.This paper reflects on the advantages presented by an active dialogue with museums andartisans’ houses conceptualised as communicative channels of material culture and folk art