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SIRIMARCO, Mariana. THE THING AND THE WORDS. STORY AND EMOTION IN A POLICE MUSEUM . Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2014, vol.7, n.1, pp.00-00. ISSN 1852-060X.

It is clear that a museum offers stories: turns what it is material into a cultural significant pattern. The same exercise carries out the Museum of Argentine Federal Police. The artifacts there stage discourses, experiences and values that allow police agency to think about itself as institution. This paper intends to analyze the construction of some of these stories, understanding them as narratives that imply not only political and social senses, but also ethic and moral ones. A story is not shaped by the aseptic description of an event, but by the transformation of it into a message. That is to say, by a narrative operation that carries emotional charge. Dismantling the emotionality of these stories implies, in the context of a museum, understanding them as plural records, where the semantics of an event entails diverse communicative modes. Which elements are selected to carry significant feelings? How these different records combine in producing emotion? And most of all: how the materiality of the artifact builds emotionality? How objects can move us?

Palabras clave : police museum; story; emotion; objects; words.

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