Book ID: CBB547356631

Le Musée de l'Homme : Histoire d'un musée laboratoire (2015)

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Blanckaert, Claude (Author)
Coppens, Yves (Author)


Coédition Artlys


Publication Date: 2015
Physical Details: 288
Language: French

The Musée de l'Homme was conceived by Paul Rivet as a "laboratory museum" combining conservation, exhibition, research and teaching activities in a "revolutionary" way, according to Claude Lévi-Strauss. Invested from the outset with a true civic, even political mission in the highest sense of the term, this high place of scientific and cultural history is a deeply original establishment, a sensitive plate of questions about Man in his diversity. Its history is presented here in its long duration, its socio-historical framework - in particular that of colonialism and resistance to fascism -, through its achievements and dynamics. The main lines of emphasis that have characterized its research and exhibition policy since the Trocadero Museum of Ethnography in 1878 until its re-foundation in 2015 are privileged. In this book, edited by Claude Blanckaert, the history of the institution is intertwined with the history of the emergence of disciplines such as anthropology, prehistory and ethnology, as well as the women and men who were its actors, including André Leroi-Gourhan, André Schaeffner, Yvonne Oddon, Germaine Tillion, Jean Rouch, and of course Paul Rivet and Georges Henri Rivière, its founders. A place of history, of memory, a place of fidelity to the principles sought by its creators in 1937, the Musée de l'Homme has become a symbol. This book is a tribute to him. "L'humanité est un tout indivisible, non seulement dans l'espace, mais aussi dans le temps. Les divisions auxquelles l'immensité de la tâche a obligé les savants : anthropologie, physique, préhistoire, archéologie, ethnographie, folklore, sociologie, linguistique, sont aussi factices que le sont les classifications basées sur la géographie politique. [...] Il est temps de les briser." Paul Rivet, 1948.

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Review Déborah S. Dubald (2016) Review of "Le Musée de l'Homme : Histoire d'un musée laboratoire". Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza (pp. 660-662). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Roberto Evangelista
Jacob Collins
Wouter F. Renaud
Debora L. Silverman
Marissa Helene Petrou
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Concepts
Museums
Anthropology
Ethnology
Museum exhibits
Collections
Museums, Science
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Prehistory
Places
Great Britain
United States
France
Dresden (Germany)
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Italy
Institutions
Science Museum, London
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
UNESCO
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