Abstracts
Abstract
Museum collaboration and object return has been discussed and examined widely in practice and literature in recent decades (e.g. Fienup-Riordan 1998; Peers and Brown 2003; Basu 2017). This paper examines an instance of object return, a wooden bowl. The bowl was part of the Roald Amundsen/Gjoa Haven Collection held at the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway, and returned to the Nattilik Heritage Centre in Gjoa Haven in 2013. Upon its return to Gjoa Haven, the bowl became the focus of interrogations and discussions to determine how it might be related to local heritage and traditional knowledge. This paper explores how this particular instance of memory work might contribute to our understanding of the processes at play in repatriation activities, or, to quote Paul Basu, the bowl’s “entanglements of ongoing social, spatial, temporal and material trajectories and relationships, dislocations and relocations” (2017, 2) as seen from the perspective of Gjoa Haven residents.
Keywords:
- Object return,
- material culture,
- museum collection,
- shared knowledge,
- memory work,
- collaboration,
- Gjoa Haven
Résumé
La collaboration des musées et le retour d’objets ont été largement discutés et examinés dans la pratique et la littérature au cours des dernières décennies (Fienrup Rordan 1998 ; Peers and Brown 2003 ; Basu 2017). Cet article examine l’exemple d’un retour d’objet : un bol en bois. Le bol faisait partie de la collection Roald Amundsen/Gjoa Haven, conservée au musée d’histoire culturelle à Oslo, en Norvège, qui est retournée au Centre Nattilik Heritage de Gjoa Haven, en 2013. À son retour à Gjoa Haven, le bol a fait l’objet d’interrogations et de discussions visant à déterminer son lien avec le patrimoine et les savoirs traditionnels. L’objectif de cet article est d’explorer comment ce cas particulier de travail mémoriel pourrait contribuer à notre compréhension des processus en jeu dans les activités de rapatriement ou pour citer Basu à la suite de cet examen particulier, des « enchevêtrements d’enchevêtrements sociaux, spatiaux, temporels de la société Bow et trajectoires et relations matérielles, dislocations et délocalisations » (2017, 2) du point de vue de Gjoa Haven.
Mots-clés:
- Restitution d’objets,
- culture matérielle,
- collection muséale,
- partage du savoir,
- travail de mémoire,
- collaboration,
- Gjoa Haven
Appendices
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