This essay focuses on the role of nostalgia in the creation and in the fruition of ethnographic museums and folk museums in Italy. Through the figures of Ettore Guatelli and Franco Ferrero, “spontaneous ethnographers” and characters on the fringes of the intellectual and academic world, I want to provide an example of how nostalgic sensitivity is one of the main features of the creation of the ethnographic and folks museums. Briefly comparing two lives and professional paths of Ettore Guatelli and Franco Ferrero, exploring the nature of these two characters and their creations, I reflect on how nostalgia is the creative and driving force for a museum discourse over time and memory, through material culture, in museum anthropology
Nostalgie al museo. Viaggio attraverso le museografie di Ettore Guatelli e Franco Ferrero / Caterina Francesca Fidanza. - In: LA RICERCA FOLKLORICA. - ISSN 0391-9099. - STAMPA. - 76:(2021), pp. 227-239.
Nostalgie al museo. Viaggio attraverso le museografie di Ettore Guatelli e Franco Ferrero
Caterina Francesca Fidanza
2021
Abstract
This essay focuses on the role of nostalgia in the creation and in the fruition of ethnographic museums and folk museums in Italy. Through the figures of Ettore Guatelli and Franco Ferrero, “spontaneous ethnographers” and characters on the fringes of the intellectual and academic world, I want to provide an example of how nostalgic sensitivity is one of the main features of the creation of the ethnographic and folks museums. Briefly comparing two lives and professional paths of Ettore Guatelli and Franco Ferrero, exploring the nature of these two characters and their creations, I reflect on how nostalgia is the creative and driving force for a museum discourse over time and memory, through material culture, in museum anthropologyI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.