Under Different Moons
Presenting an inventive body of research that explores the connections between urban movements, space, and visual representation …
Modos de objectificação da dominação colonial : o caso do Museu do Dundo, 1940-1970
This text is an ethnographic analysis of the museum owned by the Diamang – The Diamonds Company of Angola, during the last decades of the Third Portuguese Empire. The Dundo Museum – which was developed from 1936 onwards by the Company – is the generative object of the inquiry to the self-reclaimed specificity of the […]
Science, Magic and Religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic
Mary Bouquet and Nuno Porto. Science, Magic and Religion: The Ritual Processes of Museum Magic. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2006 Book information: For some time now, museums have been recognized as important institutions of western cultural and social life. The idea of the museum as a ritual site is fairly new and has been applied […]
Angola a preto e branco: Fotografia e ciência no Museu do Dundo, 1940-1970
When it comes to distributing scientific knowledge, photography and the museum share a number of characteristics. One like the other operate by selection, fragmenting the real. They proceed by composition, regrouping, in printed albums or in the confined space of a shop window, room or building, the fragments they produce. Both are mediators of something […]