Subjectivity as Treatment: Neurosis and the Roots of Contemporary Ethnographic Conservation

This paper explores an imagined ‘origin story’ for ethnographic conservation; exploring the relationships between museums, conservators, indigenous peoples, and ‘ethnographic collections’. Tracing the ‘conservation idea’ from its origins in a state of neurosis to our contemporary post-modern conditi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniel Cull
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association CeROArt 2009-10-01
Series:CeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ceroart/1237