museum

das civilizações mortas para as culturas derrotadas, uma definição de museu quase sempre calada pela história ocidental. os museus contêm os derrotados, os que foram espoliados dos seus tesouros (que em Talking God, para além dos seus tesouros, eram as ossadas de milhares de antepassados). muito interessante: o museu como arma para a dominação.

"Here you see the gods of conquered people displayed like exotic animals in the public zoo. Only the overthrown and captured gods are here. Here you see the sacred things torn from the temple of Inca worshippers, stolen from the holy kivas of the Pueblo people, sacred icons looted from burned tepee villages on the buffalo plains."

(...)

"Do you doubt your privileged race, which claims such gentility, such humanity, would do this? Above your head, lining the halls and corridors of this very building [Museum of Natural History in Washington], are thousands of cases and bins and boxes. In them you find the bones of more than eighteen thousand of your fellow humans. You will find the skeletons of children, of mothers, of grandfathers.They have been dug out of the burials where their mourning relatives placed them, reuniting them with Great Mother Earth. They remain in great piles and stacks (...)

Hillerman on p. 205 of Talking God.