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The Shrine on 77th Street: The Spirits of Objects and Stories of People at the American Museum of Natural History/77街的神龛:美国自然历史博物馆里物的灵韵与人的故事

$36.00
ISBN:
9787542685711
Transliterated Title:
77 jie de shen kan : mei guo zi ran li shi bo wu guan li wu de ling yun yu ren de gu shi
Author:
Xue ming /薛茗
Publisher:
Shanghai san lian shu dian/上海三联书店
Publish Date:
2024.8
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This is a valuable museum anthropology work and also an invitation to the museum. The American Museum of Natural History is a popular attraction for tourists from all over the world to punch in New York. However, few tourists will visit the anthropology exhibition hall on the south side of the museum near 77th Street-even though it is one of the most famous anthropology museums in the United States. Even many scholars who come to the museum to investigate do not know that some of the Buddha statues, masks, divine clothes and instruments collected here are "spiritual", and even researchers dare not touch them easily. The book has five chapters. By introducing five representative theme collections in the American Museum of Natural History-Shaman's divine clothes, "Journey to the West" shadow puppets, Tibetan thangkas, Mexican dead souls and "treasures of the museum" canoes, it tells a series of stories behind them and also incorporates the stories of anthropologists. Although the entry point of each chapter in the book is not large, the content covers a wide range and is very deep. In addition to the changes in museology, there are also contents in various aspects such as human cultural history, ethnography, anthropology, sociology, and art history. From the late 19th century to the early 20th century, a series of expeditions led by the American Museum of Natural History brought back a wealth of anthropological collections to the United States. More than a hundred years later, these collections are like "time capsules", which have irreplaceable historical value, but are also subject to the sharp scrutiny of modern anthropology's "decolonization" and "de-Westernization". The book not only introduces these unknown collections, but also explores the fate of these collections and the role of anthropological museums in modern society.

这是一部很有价值的博物馆人类学著作,也是一份博物馆邀请函。美国自然历史博物馆是世界各地游客到纽约打卡的热门景点。然而,很少有游客会去专门拜访博物馆南侧靠近77街的人类学展厅——尽管这里是美国最著名的人类学博物馆之一。哪怕很多到博物馆来考察的学者也不知道,这里收藏的一些佛像、面具、神衣和法器都是有“灵性”的,甚至连研究人员也不敢轻易触碰。全书共五个章节,通过介绍美国自然历史博物馆里五件具有代表性的主题藏品——萨满的神衣、《西游记》皮影、西藏的唐卡、墨西哥的亡灵及“镇馆之宝”独木舟,来讲述其背后的一系列故事,也融入了人类学家的故事。书中每一章的切入口虽不大,但内容涉及面很广也很深,除了博物馆学的变迁,更有人类文化史、民族志、人类学、社会学、艺术史等各方面的内容。19世纪末到20世纪初,由美国自然历史博物馆主导的一系列远征为美国带回了丰富的人类学收藏。一百多年后,这些收藏如同“时间胶囊”,既拥有无可取代的历史价值,同时也接受着现代人类学“去殖民化”“去西方中心主义”目光的尖刻审视。全书既在介绍这些不为人知的藏品,也在探索这些藏品的命运,以及人类学博物馆在现代社会扮演的角色。