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Sciot, Eline. 2018. ‘Performing science amongst the filing cabinets. Women, anthropology and museums in Belgium (1930–1970)’. History and Anthropology 29, 5: 620-644. DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2018.1538046. URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2018.1538046 I.F. 0.672.
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I trace the scientfic trajectory and identity of Olga Boone (1903–1992), the first female scientist working in the Belgian Congo Museum's ethnography section. Uncovering Boone's relatively unknown and remarkably diverse research in ‘ethnic’ geography, musicology and bibliography, and her fieldwork in Congo, serves as a point of entry into a less well-known period in and ‘unofficial’ history of Belgian twentieth-century anthropology. It also provides a window into museums as gendered spaces, particularly aspects of (in)visibility and materiality in collections and archives.