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2022-07-30

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Migrant Heritage: A Dialogue of Objects and Memories in a Barcelona Ethnographic Museum

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This article describes the 'Dialogues with Africa' project of the Barcelona Museum of World Cultures, which consisted of workshops using personal objects of African guests residing in Catalonia, and objects from the museum's African collections. The dialogues revealed the existence of both a migrant memory connected with objects chosen for their capacity to evoke origins and a museum memory linked with artifacts that were chosen as representing distant cultures. The main aim is to describe this migrant memory in relation to the objects and analyze how it connects with the museum's institutional memory in order to contribute to the discussion of the role of ethnographic museums in a plural society. We suggest that incorporating migrant memory will make possible an opening up to new meanings for objects that have been turned into heritage from an exoticizing standpoint, and that this is in keeping with a more inclusive anthropological museology.

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Museus, Migració (Població), Àfrica

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Museums, Migration (Population), Africa

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IZARD MARTÍNEZ, Gabriel and CELIGUETA, Gemma. Migrant Heritage: A Dialogue of Objects and Memories in a Barcelona Ethnographic Museum. Museum Anthropology. 2022. Vol. 45, num. 2, pags. 140-152. ISSN 0892-8339. [consulted: 12 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/191347

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