���Goan Ethnography and Colonial Anthropology���

A.B. da Bragan��a Pereira publicou a primeira vers��o da sua Etnografia da India Portuguesa em 1923, ou seja, 3 anos antes da instala����o em Goa de um Gabinete de Antropologia do Estado da ��ndia. Este gabinete foi obra do m��dico ���descendente��� Germano da Silva Correia, que tinha apostado na ���antropologia seletiva��� com o objetivo de provar a pureza do sangue portugu��s nos descendentes na ��ndia, e convencido de que era uma forma de assegurar o futuro colonial portugu��s na ��ndia portuguesa. Bragan��a Pereira, de naturalidade goesa e Juiz da Rela����o de Goa, n��o partilhava essa ideologia ���racista���, e produziu uma vers��o mais desenvolvida da sua Etnografia em 1940. Orgulhava-se da cultura indo-portuguesa, mas valorizava igualmente o patrim��nio pr��-portugu��s de Goa. N��o foi um adepto da antropologia colonial do Estado Novo.

Museums, memories and social movements

From modernity to the contemporary world, museums have been acknowledged for their power to produce metamorphoses of meanings and functions, for their ability to adapt historic and social determination, and for their calling for cultural mediation. They derive from creating gestures which bind the symbolic and the material, which bind what is sensitive and what is intelligible. For this very reason the bridge metaphor fits them well, a bridge cast between different times, spaces, individuals, social groups and cultures, a bridge that is built with images and which holds a special place in the imaginary.

Efficiency and social inclusion: implications for the museum profession

In the late 1980s Stephen Weil (1990) raised the question of the extent to which museum work could be considered a profession, the extent to which it had been professionalized, and in what ways this professionalization was facilitated or impeded by the changing circumstances of museum work, its organizational and governance context and its already multiplying roles vis-��-vis public culture and society at large. Although Weil���s thoughts were situated in the American museum context of the mid-1980s, many of his thoughts apply to contexts beyond the US, and some of the questions he raised about the potential for professionalising museum work still resonate with the current situation of museum work. This paper tries to pose and approach a host of questions that, whilst in the main echoing Stephen Weil���s mid-1980s reflections, are reconfigured in light of some sweeping changes in the nature of museum work, its mode of governance and its governing norms and values.

Response to Anwar Tlili���s paper -Efficiency and social inclusion: implications for the museum profession

I have been asked to respond to Anwar Tlili���s paper, and I propose to do this in four steps. I will follow Anwar���s line of arguments closely. I will be dealing in turn withStep no. 1: Profession and ProfessionalizationStep no. 2: Social InclusionStep no. 3: ManagerialismStep no. 4: Museum Education and Training