Földessy Edina, Szűcs Alexandra, Wilhelm Gábor: Tabula 7/2 (Néprajzi Közlemények; Budapest, 2004)

TÓTH G. PÉTER: A tárgyak jogai, méltósága és képviselete

PÉTER TÓTH G. Rights, dignity, and representation of objects In the last decade several authors raised the question of whether objects have their own life history and their own rights. They look at cultural items not only from a instrumental point of view but see them as social agents that build indispensable part of social events and memories, that play fundamental roles in social contexts or personal drama. If we are willing to accept at least some of these arguments there seem to be several consequences for museums. The author argues that museums are not only storerooms or exhibition spaces for vacant material entities but they have to care also about objects from a more personal perspective, as mediator, bearer and results of complex social phenomena.