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.

该研究项目将重点关注皮特河博物馆 (Pitt Rivers Museum) 的主要、多方面的人类学田野调查收藏，该博物馆由 E. E. Evans-Pritchard 于 1926 年至 1930 年间在南苏丹赞德兰建立。埃文斯-普里查德的田野调查为以下出版物提供了基础，他对赞德巫术、神谕和魔法的开创性研究。该项目将探索藏品的各种元素——物品、照片、文本和录音——相互之间以及与赞德地区有关或来自赞德地区的其他材料的关系，以便更好地理解埃文斯收集这些元素的历史背景-普里查德，以及他们对赞德人民和南苏丹新国家的当代意义。在此过程中，它还将推进民族志博物馆藏品的研究和使用及其历史和当代共鸣的理论和方法论方法。该项目旨在利用这一实地考察收藏 (1) 考察 1920 年代苏丹西南部的历史背景，尽管这是一个在殖民经济和政府统治下发生重大变革的时期，但此前对该时期和地区的研究很少； (2) 探索藏品的当代意义和重要性，既包括在收集材料的当地层面（以及人们与其有家族联系的地方），也包括在更广泛的层面上，以新的方式创造文化和教育资源。南苏丹等国家； (3) 推进在历史研究和文化遗产工作中使用民族志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）通过将物品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，扩展博物馆对其自身材料的理解； (ii) 确定此类藏品的当代意义并与赞德人合作，并展示材料和这些反应； (iii) 将埃文斯-普里查德的手稿收藏数字化，并将其发布在博物馆的网站上，从而实现远程参与； (iv) 与在南苏丹工作的国际机构及其代表（例如教科文组织）合作，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，以及一段与南苏丹赞德社区和国际侨民接触的实地考察，包括采访、会议和展览。这项研究将帮助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、历史和档案研究方法的培训，这些方法跨越既定的研究界限，有助于推动民族志博物馆下一阶段的藏品研究。