第71~72页 博物馆的食人性和掠夺性

It refers to the predatory activity of every museum, which is linked to collecting and cumulating objects, items and concepts in a space of absolute difference. Without this predatory and aggressive “desire to contain all times, all ages, all forms, all tastes in one place”, museums could not exist.
Many scholars interpreted this situation with the term “cannibalism” to the extent of eating other cultures’ objects while at the same time negating and silencing the peoples who produced them 。
On the one hand, since the late 80s, strong criticism has revealed the cannibalistic and predatory origins of ethnographic heritage, which has led to a  “new post-colonial museology” (Phillips, 2008, p. 406, Lebovics, 2007). On the other hand, this work will demonstrate that, thanks to this predatory nature, ethnographic museums can apply a critical interpretation of their heritage and history to the extent of Foucault’s genealogy.
 参考文献：new post-colonial museology
The National Museum of the American Indian Critical Conversations.
Inside Out and Outside In: Re-presenting the Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the National Museum of the American Indian. In Lonetree, A. & Cobb, A. J. (Eds.). The National Museum of the American Indian Critical Conversations