Mary Bouquet

• PhD. Cambridge, U.K.
• Fellow at Utrecht University

Ethnographic museums and collections have moved, since the 1990s, from a relatively peripheral position in anthropology to becoming a locus for understanding how culture and history are made, and for social engagement. Ethnographic collections are housed in a variety of institutions ranging from universities, to municipalities, to national and univ...

Starting from informal cross-disciplinary conversations, Writing the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Truth, Dialogue, and Historical Consciousness is the result of an experiment in understanding the standpoints and methodologies of colleagues in a multidisciplinary setting. At its heart are the core values of a liberal arts and sciences education: intel...

Collecting, Ordering, Governing deals with anthropology, museums and colonial government in the period between the 1880s–1890s and the 1930s–1940s. The object of inquiry is the connection between the activities named in the title and sites of collection, calculation and governmental agencies. The authors examine how these concepts illuminate relati...

Exhibition review essays Unsettling the National in South Asia: My East is Your West, Venice Biennale, and After Midnight, Queens Museum, New York - Aparna Kumar Nonstop Modernity: Renovating the Rijksmuseum - Mary Bouquet A Storehouse of Unimagined Treasures: York Art Gallery and the Centre of Ceramic Art, York St Mary’s - Alexandra Woodall Exhibi...

This article examines the changing relationship between museums and heritage using a number of Dutch cases. It argues that if heritage was once de ned as being museological in character, this order of precedence is under revision as museums themselves are recursively transformed by heritage dynamics. Such dynamics include the display of renovation...

The paper examines the historical development of a sexual division of labour in the farm household in south-west England. The main focus is upon the transformation of women's work roles in the area studied from being primarily concerned with agriculture to being concentrated within the domestic domain. Women's contemporary domestic labour on the fa...

This paper is concerned with the principle of the differential integration of the rural family, illustrated by means of a comparison between the social reproduction of the family farm in England and the pequenoproprietario household in Portugal. The comparison is developed in terms of a cultural model of the family in each case. In the English exam...

Hybridsofmodernity.Anthropology,thenationstateandtheuniversalexhibition. By Penelope Harvey. London: Routledge. 1996. ix + 398 pp. Pb.: £13.99. ISBN 0 415 13045 X.

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 to the art museums in Europe and the United States so far. This volume expands it by exploring a range of contemporary museums in Europe and Africa. The case studie...

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: Academic anthropology and the Museum. Back to the Future Mary Bouquet PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL ENCOUNTERS WITH THE POST-COLONIAL MUSEUM Chapter 1. The photological apparatus and the desiring machine: Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umista Centre, Alert Bay Ba...

Despite the growing interest in museums and exhibitions in anthropology, there is still a sharp sense of difference (certainly in parts of Europe) between universities and museums in their practices of making and transmitting knowledge. This paper argues thatanthropological theory, in the general sense of translation, can be productively engaged in...

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A substantial part of the study of kinship after Rivers involved visualizing relationships in systematic, comparable form. For anthropologists, the genealogical diagram is a piece of graphic shorthand whose theoretical status is rarely considered. This article pursues the visual dimension of various sorts of European 'family trees' as examples of p...

Having examined the changing relationship between industry and agriculture in the 19th century, and traced the growth of the milk industry, focusses on farming practices in Devon, bringing out the significance of the gender division of labour and the divergence of labour processes within the farm household. Concludes with a review of women's exclus...

This paper is concerned with the principle of the differential integration of the rural family, illustrated by means of a comparison between the social reproduction of the family farm in England and the pequeno proprietario household in Portugal. The comparison is developed in terms of a cultural model of the family in each case. In the English exa...

Guest Lecture Series 'Thresholds of Curatorship'