Reconnecting the Pitt Rivers Museum's Zande collections with their historical and contemporary contexts in South Sudan.

将皮特河博物馆的赞德藏品与其南苏丹的历史和当代背景重新联系起来。

• 批准号: 1764416
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-1764416
• 关键词: Reconnecting; Pitt; Rivers; Museum; Zande

The research project will focus on a major, multi-stranded anthropological fieldwork collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, formed by E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Zandeland, South Sudan, between 1926 and 1930. Evans-Pritchard's fieldwork provided the basis for, among other publications, his ground-breaking study of Zande witchcraft, oracles and magic. The project will explore the various elements of the collection - objects, photographs, texts and recordings - in relation to one another and to other materials about or from the Zande area, in order to better understand the historical contexts in which they were gathered by Evans-Pritchard, and their contemporary significance for the Zande people and for the new state of South Sudan. In the process it will also advance theoretical and methodological approaches to the study and use of ethnographic museum collections and their historical and contemporary resonances. The project aims to use this fieldwork collection (1) to examine the historical context of 1920s southwest Sudan, a period and region which has been studied in little detail previously despite being a time of major change under the colonial economy and government; (2) to explore the contemporary meaning and significance of the collections at both the local level where the material was collected - and where people have named familial connections to it - and at the broader level of the creation of cultural and educational resources in a new nation such as South Sudan; and (3) to advance theoretical and methodological approaches to the use of ethnographic collections in historical research and in cultural heritage work. These aims will be accomplished by a series of interlinked objectives: (i) to extend the museum's understanding of its own material by connecting objects to the anthropological and historical literature and to other archival and museum collections; (ii) to identify and work with Zande people on the contemporary meanings of such collections and to exhibit the material and those responses; (iii) to digitize Evans-Pritchard's manuscript collection and make it available on the museum's website, enabling remote engagement; (iv) to work with international agencies and their representatives working in South Sudan (eg UNESCO) on the use of collections in educational and heritage projects. The project will involve both academic analysis of the Zande collections and practical curatorial and digitisation work on them, as well as a period of fieldwork to engage with Zande communities in South Sudan and the international diaspora, involving interviews, meetings and exhibitions. The research will help the museum understand the potential of its collections for nation building, education and cultural revival. The student will be trained in anthropological, educational, historical and archival research methods, which cut across established research boundaries and which will help drive the next phase of collections research in ethnographic museums.

该研究项目将重点放在皮特河博物馆的一个重要的、多股的人类学田野工作收藏品上，该博物馆由E·E·埃文斯-普里查德于1926年至1930年在南苏丹赞德兰建立。在其他出版物中，埃文斯-普里查德的田野工作为他对赞德巫术、先知和魔法的开创性研究奠定了基础。该项目将探索藏品的各种要素--物品、照片、文本和录音--彼此之间以及与赞德地区有关或来自赞德地区的其他材料之间的关系，以便更好地了解埃文斯-普里查德收集这些藏品的历史背景，以及它们对赞德人民和南苏丹新国家的当代意义。在这一过程中，它还将推进研究和利用人种学博物馆藏品及其历史和当代共鸣的理论和方法。该项目的目的是利用这些田野调查收藏品(1)考察20世纪20年代苏丹西南部的历史背景，这一时期和地区虽然是殖民经济和政府统治下的重大变革时期，但以前几乎没有人详细研究过；(2)探索这些收藏品在地方一级的当代意义和意义--在收集材料的地方和人们命名与之有亲缘关系的地方--以及在诸如南苏丹这样的新国家创造文化和教育资源的更广泛的层面上；(3)促进在历史研究和文化遗产工作中使用民族志收藏品的理论和方法方法。这些目标将通过一系列相互关联的目标来实现：(I)通过将文物与人类学和历史文献以及其他档案和博物馆藏品联系起来，扩大博物馆对自身材料的了解；(Ii)确定这类藏品的当代意义并与赞德人合作，展示这些材料及其反应；(Iii)将Evans-Pritchard的手稿收藏数字化并放在博物馆网站上，以便进行远程接触；(Iv)与在南苏丹工作的国际机构及其代表(如教科文组织)合作，研究如何将藏品用于教育和遗产项目。该项目将涉及对赞德藏品的学术分析和实际的策展和数字化工作，以及一段时间的实地工作，以便与南苏丹的赞德社区和国际侨民接触，包括采访、会议和展览。这项研究将有助于博物馆了解其藏品在国家建设、教育和文化复兴方面的潜力。学生将接受人类学、教育学、历史学和档案研究方法的培训，这些方法跨越了既定的研究界限，将有助于推动民族志博物馆下一阶段的收藏品研究。