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Le 22 mai 2014,dans le cadre du séminaire pluridisciplinaire du CRC,Robert Oppenheim(Université du Texas, Austin, professeur invite de l’EHESS)donnera une conférence intitulée“Two Paths from 1882 in the American Anthropology of Korea“.de 11h à 13hà l'EHESS, 190-198 avenue de France, salle 681.Résumé:This lecture considers the accumulation and anthropological display of Koreanobjects in the United States at the end of the 19th century, most notably at the U.S.National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, which was dispatching collectors to thepeninsula by the end of 1883 and had a small Korean exhibit by 1889. The conceptualframework that has tended to be brought the collection of Korean things, as well as suchrelated phenomena as World’s Fairs, continues to have as its central referent apoststructuralist and post-Orientalist literature on collection, classification, and displaythat arose in the 1980s and 1990s. The emphasis of this approach is on a “curatorial”level of agency: on the representational, disciplinary, and definitional effects of selectingand arranging objects that occur as they pass into the museum space. In considering thecollection of Korea, however, there is a need to account for, simultaneously, themovement of things, the translation of the character of things, the movement of peopleamong various nodes of the collecting network, and finally, the deliberate insertion ofobjects into collections to shift the overall public representation of Korea in late 19thcentury U.S. public discourse. This lecture argues that an adequate account of thiscomplexity requires us to see a broader field of agencies at work in the assembly of theseKorean collections, to understand objects in collections as potentially projections of theagency of absent actors, and as a result to locate the effect of interpretation not simply atthe aforementioned curatorial level but as distributed throughout the collecting field.