Los Museos. Espacios Para Incentivar Conocimientos y Disertaciones sobre el Pasado

Translated title of the contribution: The museums. Spaces to Encourage Knowledge and Dissertations about the Past

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Abstract

This article reflects on the role of the museum as an institution that safeguards and preserves the vestiges of the past, whose function is configured as a structuring, conditioning and institutional axis of the views towards the social and collective memory of Latin American peoples. In this paper I argue how the museum constitutes a space that contributes to the reproduction and legitimization of ideas and ideologies rooted in the project of modernity/coloniality, and how it establishes visions of the past that exclude the histories and experiences of the "others".
Translated title of the contributionThe museums. Spaces to Encourage Knowledge and Dissertations about the Past
Original languageSpanish (Ecuador)
Pages (from-to)17-30
Number of pages14
JournalUniversitas
Volume14
Issue number14
DOIs
StatePublished - 30 Dec 2016

Keywords

  • Latin America
  • Modernity/coloniality project
  • Museum
  • Subalternity

CACES Knowledge Areas

  • 413A Social and Cultural Studies

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