STEWARDS OF EMPIRE: HERITAGE AS COLONIALIST BOOTY

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Editor Chefe: Glaydson José da Silva
Início Publicação: 30/04/2016
Periodicidade: Anual
Área de Estudo: História

STEWARDS OF EMPIRE: HERITAGE AS COLONIALIST BOOTY

Ano: 2016 | Volume: 1 | Número: 1
Autores: Pedro Paulo Abreu Funari, Tamina Ourra Mourad
Autor Correspondente: Glaydson José da Silva | [email protected]

Palavras-chave: Stewards; empire ; heritage; colonialism; Archaeology; Orientalism.

Resumos Cadastrados

Resumo Inglês:

Stewardship and colonialism are tightly interrelated. It can be defined as a tendency
that stemmed out of the need to appropriate, protect, and guard; it nonetheless
resulted in the abduction, deformation, and isolation of heritage from the living
populations, as suggested by Latin American and Near Eastern cases. In this paper, we
study how colonialism has historically shaped museum stewardship against distinct
heritage backgrounds. Selected episodes of stewardship are here used illustrating the
twofold background of stewardship; both political and pseudo-scientific enterprise,
where stewards, are not mere mediators between past and present, rather pivots of
their governmental sponsors’ political interests.