Museums, Anthropology, and Exhibitions on Taiwan Indigenous Peoples-The Historical Transformation on Settings of Cultural Representation
Resource
國立臺灣大學考古人類學刊, 66, 094-124
Journal
國立臺灣大學考古人類學刊
Journal Issue
66
Pages
094-124
Date Issued
2006-12
Date
2006-12
Author(s)
胡家瑜
Abstract
This paper aims to explore the historical transformation on exhibiting Taiwan indigenous peoples. The complicate entangled processes between collecting ethnographic specimens, producing anthropological knowledge, and making representations of others are examined based on museum anthropological perspectives. Five major exhibitionary periods are analyzed according to differences of representational settings and driving forces: (1) the period of showing indigenous peoples as vague others and spectaculars; (2) the period of presenting indigenous peoples as systematically classified groups; (3) the period of exhibiting indigenous peoples as metaphors of the colonized savages in contrast to the civilized colonizers; (4) the period of displaying indigenous peoples as preserved cultural units for academic research; (5) the period of developing divergent representational venues and fields for presenting and showing self. Through comparative analysis of the material images, socialpolitical interactions and cultural premises on exhibiting indigenous peoples in Taiwan, the meaning of objectification, cultural representation and power relation behind the exhibitions could be understood more thoroughly in context.
Subjects
再現場域
文化再現
博物館人類學
類博物館機構
展示叢集
具體化
文化賦權
representational settings
cultural representation
museum anthropology
quasi-museum institutes
exhibitionary complex
objectification
cultural empowerment
Type
journal article
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