Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden
away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on
the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals
their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations.
Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts
and the people and institutions who made, traded, collected,
researched and exhibited them have generated complex networks of
material and social agency.
In this innovative volume, the contributors draw on a broad
range of source materials to explore the cross-cultural
interactions which have created museum collections. These case
studies contribute significantly to the development of new
theoretical frameworks to examine broader questions of materiality,
agency, and identity in the past and present.
Grounded in case studies from individual objects and museum
collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific
Islands, and Australia, this truly international volume juxtaposes
historical, geographical, and cross-cultural studies.
This work will be of great interest to archaeologists and
anthropologists studying material culture, as well as researchers
in museum studies and cultural heritage management."
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