This volume is the first of its kind in focusing on the
temporalities of museum work. Wayne Modest, Peter Pels and
contributors analyze concerns around the function of museums in
relation to time, inquiring whether museums can ever be successful
in arresting time or setting themselves outside of time. The
chapters look at how museums require a stretching and setting aside
of time to exist, as well as how museum practice changes and adapts
through time and what this means for a theory of museum work.
Moving on from ideas that originate in Enlightenment thought of how
museums present a survey of the classifiable universe, Modest and
Pels indicate that something in the global exhibitionary complex
has changed. This volume therefore puts together a theory and
practice of museums that addresses the question of why people need
to make the counterfactural effort to render identities and
meanings permanent. Divided into five parts, the first part surveys
and critiques implicit temporal assumptions and outlines emergent
and future temporalities of museum practice. The second part looks
in detail at the need for empirical studies of the historical and
present-day approach to time, and modernist assumptions in relation
to museums today. The third part looks at heterochronia and moves
beyond modernist assumptions to consider the negotiation of 'other
times', expanding the Western Eurocentric understanding that has
dominated studies to date. The fourth part looks at the empirical
and conceptual study of the materiality of the museum and as well
as the sensory intimacy of museums. Finally the fifth part looks to
whether and how museum materials can convey futures, and whose
futures are being portrayed.This path-breaking collection
centralizes and develops current concerns in critical museology and
is a must-read for students of museum studies, anthropology,
heritage studies, material culture and ethnography.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Editors: |
Wayne Modest
• Peter Pels
|
| Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
| Pages: |
256 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-350-10314-6 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-350-10314-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781350103146 |
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