The New Museology is a movement of a wide theoretical and methodological range, whose position is still crucial for the effective renovation of all the museums of the 21st century. Today, the clarity of the term seems weak, and more so because of the proliferation of other designations: critical museology, postmodern museology, sociomuseology... The word "ecomuseum" was created by H. de Varine-Bohan to translat...
The dominant conceptions of development that marked the post-II World War period identified development with economic growth. Such an industrial model was adopted in Portugal from the 60s on, still under the dictatorship named Estado Novo. In the case of Portugal, this economical development model never reached the spectacular increase of productivity and growth achieved by more advanced societies, even though ...
The word "ecomuseum" was created by H. de Varine-Bohan to translate a set of new ideas developed by G. H. Rivière. New Museology gains one of its keywords, but it is very limitative to identify the movement of New Museology exclusively with the dynamics of the ecomuseum. On the contrary, New Museology is a movement of a wide theoretical and methodological range, whose position is still crucial for the effective...
Over the last century, the culture of industrial society has become increasingly based in a world of objects massively produced and distributed. Through an approach of the consumption as a cultural practice, this article highlights some of the mechanisms by which the commodities are placed at the service of creating and maintaining sociability networks of the consumers. Systematizing the appropriations of the s...
While working in historiography of the anthropological knowledge it appears as coherent to study the level of association/dissociation between anthropology and anthropological museums, relating this level to the different mechanisms of objectivation of knowledge which the discipline has bem utilizing during its development. Focusing our attention on the two last decades, this paper aims to analize the recent mo...
I begin by a systematic collection of information on the Portuguese museum scene using as a point of departure the year of 1974 and arriving at the present time. In a schematic way, I try to highlight the different stages of consolidation and development of museums, their leadership and legal framework. The 1990s are the boom years of museums, especially the local museums under municipal supervision. As the ana...
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