Indexing (in) authenticity: art and artefact in ethnography museums

摘要: Over the past three decades, ethnographic museums have increasingly collected and displayed contemporary artworks in order to challenge assumptions about (in)authenticity of cultural minorities. Yet, this paper argues, by perpetuating ambiguities contradictions their collecting display practices, they often failed fully acknowledge complexities attached notion continuity. Drawing on examples from Etnografi ska Museet Stockholm Museum Archaeology Anthropology (MAA) Cambridge, it is suggested that might not be sufficient make these institutions socially politically relevant. As some Sami Maori artists involved indicated, direct engagement between museum staff, with public, fundamental conveying are at once “traditional” “contemporary”.