During the last half a century, the concepts of folklore and heritage went respectively through
parallel but inverted courses. I think there are serious problems in the mating of “Folklore” …

Decolonial scholars insist that the work of decolonization must, at its core, involve
understanding and dismantling the Western epistemologies that shape knowledge …

The main difference between safeguarding and preservation is that while safeguarding
implies sociocultural dynamics that enable people to adapt activities to the needs and …

Commissioning items for collections goes right back to the first colle anthropological
fieldworkers, working within the theory of salvage ethnog obsessed over …

The Quebec City festivals of 1927 and 1928 represent a unique instance of close
collaboration between prominent figures in Canadian musical and cultural history, John …

This doctorate examines the redevelopment of ethnographic collections between 1997 and
2010. The collection and interpretation of ethnographic objects has been the subject of …