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 contribution | The museums. Spaces to Encourage Knowledge and Dissertations about the Past |
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Original language | Spanish (Ecuador) |
Pages (from-to) | 17-30 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Universitas |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 14 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 30 Dec 2016 |
Keywords
- Latin America
- Modernity/coloniality project
- Museum
- Subalternity
CACES Knowledge Areas
- 413A Social and Cultural Studies