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For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studies examine the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such sites. It turns out that not only museum specialists, but visitors themselves are engaged in complex performances and experiences that make use of museums in often unexpected ways.
Mary Bouquet teaches Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies at Utrecht University College. Her recent publications include Academic Anthropology and the Museum, also published by Berghahn Books (2001).
List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Science, Magic and Religion: the Ritual Processes of Museum MagicMary Bouquet and Nuno PortoPART I: OBJECTS OF SCIENCE? BABY AND THE MUMMIESChapter 1. Memorialising the Future: the Museum of Science and Industry in ManchesterPenelope HarveyChapter 2. Unwrapping Mummies and Telling their Stories: Egyptian Mummies in Museum RhetoricAnna WieczorkiewiczPART II: SITE SPECIFICS: THE CASE OF TERVURENChapter 3. Congo-VisionBarbara SaundersChapter 4. The Scourge of Chief Kansabala: the Ritual Life of Two Congolese Masterpieces at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (1884-2001)Boris WastiauPART III: ENCOUNTERS, PERFORMANCES AND UNPREDICTABLESChapter 5. Paradise in the Making at Artis Zoo, AmsterdamNatasha SilvaChapter 6. The Natural Magic of Monte San Giovanni: Authority, Authenticity and Ritual in SardiniaTracey HeatheringtonChapter 7. The Performance of Heritage in a Reconstructed, Post-Apartheid Museum in NamibiaIan FairweatherChapter 8. Haunted Art: Visiting an Exhibit in WeimarBarbara WolbertPART IV: DILEMMAS OF ENCHANTMENTChapter 9. Enchantment and its Dilemmas: the Museum as a Ritual SiteSharon MacdonaldNotes on ContributorsIndex
