The Legacy of Pierre Fatumbi Verger in the Whydah Historical Museum (Benin): Development of an Ambivalent Concept of Hybridity

This article analyses the ambivalent legacy of Pierre Verger in the Whydah Historical Museum (Benin). Created in the Portuguese fort once used for the Atlantic slave trade and transformed into a museum in 1967, it is dedicated to the history of the region and its cultural consequences. This article...

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Published in:History in Africa 2013-10, Vol.40 (1), p.295-312
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Moving Meanings in Museal Collections
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description This article analyses the ambivalent legacy of Pierre Verger in the Whydah Historical Museum (Benin). Created in the Portuguese fort once used for the Atlantic slave trade and transformed into a museum in 1967, it is dedicated to the history of the region and its cultural consequences. This article examines the distinction between the way Verger used his photographs as a tool for anthropological exploration and the reinterpretation of those pictures by way of an ideological discourse once they were fixed in a museological context. Cet article analyse l’héritage ambivalent du musée historique de Ouidah (Bénin) laissé par Pierre Verger. Créé dans le fort portugais utilisé autrefois pour la traite transatlantique des esclaves, ce musée est consacré à l’histoire de la région et à ses conséquences culturelles. Cet article analyse les photographies utilisées par Verger et distingue la photographie étudiée comme un outil d’exploration anthropologique de la photographie telle qu’elle à été interprétée sous un angle idéologique une fois établie dans un cadre muséographique.
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Cultural anthropology
Ethnography
Ideology
Moving Meanings in Museal Collections
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Photographers
Portuguese
Slave trade
Studies
Verger, Pierre
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