Curating Action: Rethinking Ethnographic Collections and the Role/Place of Performing Arts in the Museum

Dance involves a set of movements that embody social memory. Such forms of intangible heritage have presented emerging challenges for curatorship. This paper draws from the experience of the Musées de la civilisation (Quebec City, Canada) to address ideas of collecting and curating in the performing...

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Main Authors: Hélène Bernier, Mathieu Viau-Courville
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2017-06-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/641