Manageable past: time and native culture at the Dundo Museum in colonial Angola.

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  • N Porto
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Abstract What are the relationships between cultural representation and colonial exploitation? What kind of reports between scientific and commonsensical knowledge were set forward by colonial museums? How may museum analysis contribute to the study of the colonial communities? The text intends to deal with these questions by means of an ethnographical approach to the development of the Dundo Museum, in colonial Angola. Property of the Diamang (the Diamonds Company of Angola), the Dundo Museum became an important scientific centre of Portuguese colonial studies. Dealing with the settling period of the Dundo Museum, this text explores how notions of time become a common ground both to the museum representation of Lunda Peoples and to their exploitation as labour force. Résumé Résumé Le passé manipulé. Le temps et la culture locale au musée du Dundo en Angola coloniale. — Quels sont les rapports existant entre représentation culturelle et exploitation coloniale ? Les rapports entre savoir scientifique et sens commun sont-ils rendus par les musées coloniaux ? Comment l'analyse du musée peut-elle contribuer à l'étude des communautés coloniales ? Ce texte aborde ces questions par l'analyse ethnographique du développement du musée du Dundo, en Angola coloniale. Propriété de la Diamang (la Compagnie des diamants d'Angola), le musée du Dundo est devenu un important centre scientifique pour les études de la période coloniale portugaise. Centré sur sa formation, ce texte montre comment des notions de temps constituent un terrain commun soit pour la représentation museale des peuples de la Lunda soit pour son exploitation en tant que force de travail Keywords/Mors-c/és Angola native culture muséum Portuguese colonialism tem po rali ty/Ango/a colonisation portugaise culture indigène ethnographie musée temporalité

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cahiers d'etudes africaines

دوره 39 155-156  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999