This book chapter, part of an edited volume on ‘boxes in action’ explores the museum as a ‘box’. I tell the story of how one particular museum gradually relinquished its functions as a container of antiquities and came to be “unboxed” in many ways.
All tagged Museums
3 months ethnographic fieldwork in The Gambia, W. Africa
I spent three months conducting ethnographic research in an open-air museum in The Gambia exploring themes of authenticity and user-participation for a Masters degree in cultural anthropology and development sociology at the University of Leiden.