An example interrogation of scientific collections in their dynamic order and disorder at the base of the Interdisciplinary Research Program "Think, organize, administer."
In 1797, natural history excludes objects made by humans to keep only the objects of the three kingdoms of Nature. After the failure of a museum of antiquities, the first French collections of objects of "wild" being lost or at best forgotten for nearly a century.
This book reproduces in time and space, instead given then refused to ethnographic objects in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the Museum became the Museum of all Elsewhere.
What has happened to these things "exotic"? Why were they moved? How have they gone? Collected, reported, classified, they take their place in a space where they make sense. To try to answer them, this book reconsiders own collections naturalistic universe: the objects of the "wild" but also the objects of Nature. As "rank" is primarily a technique based on the collections. The natural history with and think through its collections. The natural history of revolutionizing the museum. The "methodical order" which succeeds the "curious" given classification logic and storage hardware via the "Matrices". However, objects can not be reduced to mere scientific materials. As historical documents, they are the product of political conditions. In questioning the circumstances of the collection of objects to the museum grounds, a political dimension emerges previously erased.
Collections naturalists between science and empires (1793-1804)
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