关键词：
Italy
museums
Sicily
politics
摘要：
Through the an ethnographic analysis of the social life of three non-anthropological 'museum' towns in a town in south-eastern Sicily, the contours of public space and public culture are examined in a political environment marked by deeply noted political conflicts. Local and provincial 'politics of culture', a largely overlooked dimension in traditional anthropological approaches to politics in Sicily and Italy, are analysed. The articles also investigated, from a Sicilian and ethnographic point of view, a proposition that underlies recent North American studies on museums and the politics of culture. Employing a postmodern perspective, these studies have shown the political and conflictual character of museums. They are represented as institutions in which it is possible, if not indeed necessary, for the political and social tensions that roil public space to be represented in a controlled dialogical form. Even when placed under the gaze of postmodern analysis, therefore, the museum is still viewed as retaining its character as a 'democratic' and public forum. This article looks at what happens in the case of 'museums' where public space assumes unexpected forms, less solid and instead radically conflictual.
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