Reassembling the Collection presents innovative approaches to the
study of historical and contemporary engagements between museums
and the various individuals and communities who were (and are)
involved in their production and consumption. Reassembling the
Collection is interdisciplinary in scope and international in
coverage. It addresses fundamental questions about the nature,
value, and efficacy of museum collections in a postcolonial world,
and the entangled agencies of those who have made, traded,
received, collected, curated, worked with, researched, viewed, and
experienced them in the past and present. In moving beyond the
concerns of the politics of representation that have dominated
critical museum studies, Reassembling the Collection considers the
material networks and affective qualities of "things" alongside
their representational role within the museum and explores the ways
in which concepts of agency and indigeneity need to be reconfigured
in light of the study of these concepts within the museum context.
The contributors explore key concepts including the idea of museums
as "meshworks" of material and social assemblages; how an
"archaeological sensibility" might inform approaches to
understanding past and present relationships between people,
"things," and institutions in relation to museums; and the "weight
of things" and sense of "curatorial responsibility," which arises
from a reconsideration of the nature of museum objects.
Contributors: Joshua A. Bell, Tony Bennett, Sarah Byrne, Anne
Clarke, Rodney Harrison, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Gwyneira Isaac,
Chantal Knowles, Ramson Lomatewama, Evelyn Tetehu, Robin Torrence,
Chris Wingfield
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