This article both claims and problematizes the ethnographic museum as a site of cross-cultural aesthetic engagement, cultural critique, and co-creative potential, through the prism of the evolving field of design anthropology. Rather than presuming that collaboration, consultation and community participation solve the critiques of appropriation that ethnographic museums have had to negotiate in recent decades, the article draws attention to the ‘ragged edges’ that such projects produce in their efforts to ‘transduce’ cultural meaning and affect. Instead of smoothing over residual frustrations, tensions, and misunderstandings, the authors argue that ragged edges can be conceptually generative from a design anthropological perspective.

本文通过设计人类学不断发展的领域，将民族志博物馆作为跨文化审美参与，文化批评和共同创造潜力的场所，并对此提出质疑。该文章并没有假定协作，咨询和社区参与解决了民族志博物馆在最近几十年中必须进行的协商批判，而是提请人们注意此类项目在其“转换”文化含义的过程中产生的“参差不齐的边缘”。影响。作者认为，从设计人类学的角度来看，参差不齐的边缘在概念上可能是生成的，而不是消除残留的挫折，紧张和误解。