ETHNOGRAPHIC MUSEOLOGY: FROM ETHNOGRAPHY TO ANTHROPOLOGY – MUSEALISATION OF OBJECTS MADE OF NEWMATERIALS

Abstract

The ethnographic museology in Serbia during the 20th century was primarily focused on objects made of natural materials that are made of handicraft techniques in the traditional communities, and was not involved in the processes of musealization plastic items as artificial materials produced by industrial technologies. Creating, daily use, symbolic communication and cultural importance of objects made by new technologies and of new materials have not been in the scope of the traditional ethnographic museology. However, sporadically were acquired recently changed objects (due to damage or total destruction) with parts of available , recycled plastic materials, or objects which are made of plastic, but to a large extent shaped and decorated in a way to culturally adapt to those which have been created and used in traditional communities. The process of the evolutionary change continued by joining of objects made of plastic to basic museum activities, through museum exhibitions and using them as a side certificates of the epoch and/or ideas, as an addition to any major exhibitions and their concepts. The major shift in museological ethnographic conceptualizations of plastic was made in 2010 with exhibition PlasticNineties at the EthnographicMuseum, where on the basis of exposure of culturally seemingly worthless objects were represented numerous segments of daily life of population in Serbia during the last decade of the 20th century. Shifting of the communication scenter of gravity toward the anthropological concept of culture and additionally pointing to the communication of the "observation with participation", the exhibition has also opened museological space of cultural conceptualization of silicon. For example, museo-anthropological focus to reconstructive and estheticaly contextualized implants, should represent socio-culturally defined communication of the experience of "plastic in the inside human" .