Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures (Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums)

Synopsis

This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relations—between and among objects and media, people, and material and immaterial contexts—define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and professional networks, discourses and practices, and increasingly museums and other collecting institutions themselves. The contributors argue that a focus on the—often contested—making and remaking of relations provides a unique conceptual entrypoint for understanding collections’—and ‘their’ objects’ and media’s—complex histories, contemporary webs of interactions, and potential futures. The chapters examine the local, translocal, and transregional relations of collections with regard to their affective, aesthetic, performative, and socio-moral qualities and situate them in the larger geopolitical constellations of precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial settings. Together they investigate ongoing shifts in the relations of collections and collecting institutions by identifying alternative approaches to conceive of, and deal with, anthropological and global art collections, objects, and media in the future. The book is of interest to scholars from anthropology, global art history, museum studies, and heritage studies.

Copyright:

2024

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781040210079

Related ISBNs:

9781040210024, 9781032382555, 9781003370024

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

11/08/24

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Hansjörg Dilger, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Stephanie Schütze, and Alexis Th. von Poser

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Hansjörg Dilger

Edited by:

Barbara Göbel

Edited by:

Lars-Christian Koch

Edited by:

Stephanie Schütze

Edited by:

Alexis von Poser