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10.4000/perspective.7617

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10.4000/perspective.7617

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Abstract

From a Maussian perspective, this article raises the question of donations to museums in Algiers over the long term, from colonization to the present day. To understand the paradigmatic nature of the role of donations and donors in the formations of collections in the colonial context, it is enough to remember that the first museum founded in Africa was in the French colony in 1835. The chronological framework – from 1835 until contemporary Algeria – helps to understand the structuring role of donations and to situate the figures of donors in political history. However, donations should not only be considered a museological category, but also as a form of transaction. This study aims to precisely contextualize the conditions of exchange: it can be accepted in full or constitute an incomplete transaction. The latter shows the hierarchization of colonial-era museums as the divergent representations of independent Algeria. Finally, the sometimes paradoxical attachment to ethnography, orientalism, and modern art is questioned on the basis of a pragmatic approach to taste (A. Hennion).

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