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Museums and geographies of (national) power
- Source :
- Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, Vol 56, Iss 2, Pp 37-52 (2008)
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade, 2008.
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Abstract
- The paper raises a discussion about the relation of museums and (national) politics, primarily about the concept of 'apolitcism' of museum work, the idea that is spread among many museum workers as reality. I analyze the process of appearing of big museums in Europe and Serbia, as well as the aims of their work, in order to show that museums - from the very beginning of their appearing - function as means for consolidating national borders (outer and inner), teaching about patriotism. I also analyze the influence of German romanticism, that created the illusion of 'apoliticism' of the culture in general, as well as of museums. The change of attitude towards the state-as-nation in contemporary European community means also the change of museologic activities that should take part in the constitution of Europeism/European identity as meta-nation. That change has not still come to museums in Serbia, which points to the fact that society has not changed yet in the direction of appropriating of European values.
Details
- Language :
- English, Serbian
- ISSN :
- 03500861
- Volume :
- 56
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.b6224e70ab048f7bd1b2eba3d945e4f
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2298/GEI0802037G