Two Paths from 1882 in the American Anthropology of Korea
Le 22 mai 2014,
dans le cadre du séminaire pluridisciplinaire du CRC,
(Université du Texas, Austin, professeur invite de l’EHESS)
donnera une conférence intitulée
“Two Paths from 1882 in the American Anthropology of Korea“.
de 11h à 13h
à l’EHESS, 190-198 avenue de France, salle 681.
Résumé:
This lecture considers the accumulation and anthropological display of Korean
objects in the United States at the end of the 19th century, most notably at the U.S.
National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, which was dispatching collectors to the
peninsula by the end of 1883 and had a small Korean exhibit by 1889. The conceptual
framework that has tended to be brought the collection of Korean things, as well as such
related phenomena as World’s Fairs, continues to have as its central referent a
poststructuralist and post-Orientalist literature on collection, classification, and display
that arose in the 1980s and 1990s. The emphasis of this approach is on a “curatorial”
level of agency: on the representational, disciplinary, and definitional effects of selecting
and arranging objects that occur as they pass into the museum space. In considering the
collection of Korea, however, there is a need to account for, simultaneously, the
movement of things, the translation of the character of things, the movement of people
among various nodes of the collecting network, and finally, the deliberate insertion of
objects into collections to shift the overall public representation of Korea in late 19th
century U.S. public discourse. This lecture argues that an adequate account of this
complexity requires us to see a broader field of agencies at work in the assembly of these
Korean collections, to understand objects in collections as potentially projections of the
agency of absent actors, and as a result to locate the effect of interpretation not simply at
the aforementioned curatorial level but as distributed throughout the collecting field.
OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Eun-joo Carrè-Na (19 mai 2014). Two Paths from 1882 in the American Anthropology of Korea. Carnets du Centre Corée. Consulté le 2 novembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/qmst