Unpacking the collection : networks of material and social agency in the museum / Sarah Byrne ... [and others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Byrne, Sarah, editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

One world archaeology (Springer)

One world archaeology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnological museums and collections--Social aspects.

Ethnological museums and collections.

Ethnological museums and collections--Research.

Material culture--Social aspects.

Material culture.

Material culture--Research.

Museums--Collection management--Social aspects.

Museums.

Museum exhibits--Social aspects.

Museum exhibits.

Museums--Collection management.

Social aspects.

Research.

Physical Description:

viii, 342 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2011]

Contents:

Networks, agents and objects : frameworks for unpacking museum collections / Sarah Byrne ... [et al.]

"Suitable for decoration of halls and billiard rooms" : finding indigenous agency in historic auction and sale catalogues / Robin Torrence and Anne Clarke

Consuming colonialism : curio dealers' catalogues, souvenir objects and indigenous agency in Oceania / Rodney Harrison

Plumes, pipes and valuables : the Papuan artefact-trade in southwest New Guinea, 1845-1888 / Susan M. Davies

Donors, loaners, dealers and swappers : the relationship behind the English collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum / Chris Wingfield

The Bekom mask and the white star : the fate of others' objects at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris / Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine

Agency, prestige and politics : Dutch collecting abroad and local responses / Pieter ter Keurs

Crafting Hopi identities at the Museum of Northern Arizona / Kelley Hays-Gilpin

Pathways to knowledge : research, agency and power relations in the context of collaborations between museums and source communities / Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby

'Objects as ambassadors' : representing nation through museum exhibitions / Chantal Knowles

Seats of power and iconographies of identity in Ecuador / Colin McEwan and Maria-Isabel Silva

Hedley takes a holiday : collections from Kanak people in the Australian Museum / Jude Philp

Death, memory and collecting : creating the conditions for ancestralisation in South London households / Fiona Parrott

Trials and traces : A.C. Haddon's agency as museum curator / Sarah Byrne.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1441982213

9781441982216

OCLC:

690089607

Publisher Number:

99944358162