Conservation as an emblem from an anthropological approach to the public
In the late twentieth century, French anthropologist Maurice Godelier complexified the Maussian legacy on the domain of exchange by questioning the safeguarding of objects in a non-Western society. His complexification showed that the domain of conservation is as fundamental to social life as that o...
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Instituto de Ciencias Antropológicas, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/runa/article/view/12064 |
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| Sumario: | In the late twentieth century, French anthropologist Maurice Godelier complexified the Maussian legacy on the domain of exchange by questioning the safeguarding of objects in a non-Western society. His complexification showed that the domain of conservation is as fundamental to social life as that of exchange. In this paper I address the conservation of cultural property as an emblem from an anthropological approach to the public. The empirical foundation is based on an institution that safeguards community recognized objects in a city located in the central region of Buenos Aires. The argument I construct exoticizes the sacred investiture of conservation from the description of daily tasks in the empirical reality studied. The paper is structured in three parts. In the first one, I situate the treatment of the public from some contributions of the social theory of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. In the second, I focus on the relationship between French Enlightenment and the public openness of the heritage institution. In the third and last one, I recover observations from an ethnographic fieldwork to show the spoiling as a native figure that goes against the deontological framework of the safeguarding practice and opposes the actors’ valuation of cleanliness by subjectively homologating the institution with the domestic space. |
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