Roque Ricardo
University of Lisbon.
Configurations. 2011;19(1):1-23. doi: 10.1353/con.2011.0002.
The essay explores the hypothesis of colonial collecting processes involving the active addition of the colonial context and historical past to museum objects through the production of short stories. It examines the emergent historicity of collections through a focus on the "histories" that museum workers and colonial agents have been attaching to scientific collections of human skulls. Drawing on the notions of collection trajectory and historiographical work, it offers an alternative perspective from which to approach the creation of singular histories and individual archives for objects in collections.
本文探讨了殖民收集过程的假说，该过程涉及通过创作短篇小说，将殖民背景和历史过往积极地添加到博物馆藏品中。它通过关注博物馆工作人员和殖民代理人赋予人类头骨科学藏品的“历史”，审视了藏品中新兴的历史特性。借鉴藏品轨迹和史学研究的概念，它提供了一个另类视角，用以探讨为藏品中的物品创造独特历史和单独档案的方式。
