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Short Abstract
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This Panel intends to bring together anthropological experts who discuss the current issue about the decolonization processes of museums, both from a theoretical and methodological point of view. This theme is occupying a lot of research interest and many anthropologists in their universities and, above all, in the relationship with the managers museological spaces, to adapt above all, the demands of indigenous peoples another discriminated sectors of societies in different countries.
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Long Abstract
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In the past decades, countless other colloquia, seminars, meetings and meetings have taken place on this same issue and, therefore, which has been followed with great attention by the numerous panels organized by COMACH within the scope of IUAES. Many museums have legacies rooted in colonialism; their collections donated or sold by collectors who benefited from colonial empires. Many of these collectors saw their efforts to preserve the past, believing that indigenous peoples, for example, would disappear into obscurity. For, the debate around the arguments that returning contaminated colonial collections is not the only way to resolve issues that are linked to colonial museological narratives, it is to reduce the need for a broad discussion on the role of these museums. It is believed that this is not just about changing the definition of a museum. This debate goes deeper and goes beyond an agreed “global” definition. The forums for anthropological discussion on decolonization and the future of these museums are much broader than one can imagine. The contributions of this Panel could give a clue to analyze the complexities of the current debate that go beyond questions of return and historical repair of such objects. The focus of this debate should be on the practice and mentality present in museums mainly European and the extension of that debate in Europe to the political and public domains. And so, helping the museum to understand the diversity of its own collections, something the museum has never really known before. This is just one example of issues embedded in the decolonization processes that make museums able to give protagonist to indigenous peoples. Therefore, much is expected from this panel to provide clues for a better understanding of these museum decolonization processes.
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