The Routledge handbook of museums, heritage, and death / edited by Trish Biers and Katie Stringer Clary.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biers, Trish, editor.

Stringer Clary, Katie, editor.

Series:

Routledge Handbooks on Museums, Galleries and Heritage Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dead.

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (609 pages)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death provides a comprehensive examination of death, dying and human remains in museums and heritage sites around the world.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Background

Introduction to the Volume

Volume Structure

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Part 1: Acquisition, Curation, and Conservation of the Dead

1. Historical Contexts of Bodies, Display, and Spectacle

A Brief History of Museums

Human Remains: What Comprises Corporeal Remains and Are They Objects?

Traveling Exhibitions and Human Displays

Freakshows

World's Fairs, Expositions, and "Human Zoos

Human Remains in Museums Today

Lessons for Today's Museums

2. Conserving the Humanity of Human Remains

Stopping Decomposition

Caring for Human Remains

3. A Museum Archive: An Unexpected Final Resting Place but One Full of Promise

Museum of London Archaeological Archive and Centre for Human Bioarchaeology

Conservation

Archaeological Archive the Final Resting Place

4. Striking a Balance: Preserving, Curating, and Investigating Human Remains from the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily

Preservation and Curation

Scientific Investigation

5. The Handling of the Remains of the Ancestors in Peru: Realities, Challenges, and Wishes

Overview

Testimonies from Curatorial Staff

Northern Coast

Central Coast

South Coast

Central Highlands

Southern Highlands

6. Engaging with Death in Museums and Collections

Death in the Museum Space

Death Topics in Practice

Exhibition

Curation and Research

Public Engagement.

Conclusion and Future Challenges

Part 2: Displaying the Dead: Exhibitions and Ethical Considerations

7. Education, Preservation and Reconciliation: The J.L. Shellshear Museum and the Preservation and Display of Human Remains

The Shellshear Museum: History and Context

Indigenous Remains and the Australian Context

Narrabeen Man: A Case for the Display of Remains

Conclusion - Towards a Respectful Curatorial Relationship?

8. The Mummies of Guanajuato: The Tension between Ethics and Ambition

Other Sources

9. The Cost of Civil Rights: Loss, Grief, and Death at US Civil Rights Museums

10. Changing People, Changing Content: New Perspectives on Past Peoples

Prehistory Spaces in English Museums

Visualising Past People

People in Place

11. Transforming Memento Mori: A Contemporary Lens

Death and Grief in the Visual Arts

An Artist's Inspiration

Memento Mori

Memento Morididdle

12. The Hollywood Museum of Death: The Commodification of the Maiden, Criminal and the Corpse

Museum of Death Origins

The Charles Manson Room

Synthetic Maiden

The Black Dahlia

Part 3: Decolonisation and Shifting the Perspective in Museums and Heritage

13. Papuan Pasts: The Origins of Papuan Human Remains Collections in the World's Museums, the Issue of Repatriation, and Telling New Stories with Skeletal Data

The Study Area

Pre-Contact Trade

History of Collecting Human Remains along the Papuan Coast

19th and 20th Century European Collecting

Second World War

Professional Archaeology.

Human Remains as Artefacts from the Papuan Coast

Papuan Collections Held Overseas

Repatriation and Ownership

Discussion

14. Searching for Identities through Archaeological Human Remains in Turkey

Theoretical Framework: The Authorised Heritage Discourse and Making of Identities

A New National Identity Written on Bones: Embracing the Anatolians

Rediscovering the Ottoman Roots

Current Perceptions Surrounding Archaeological Human Remains in Turkey

The "Authorised" View

The Public View

Ethno-Genesis Once Again?

15. Entangled Entitlements and Shuar Tsantsa (shrunken heads)

Tsantsa

The tsantsa in the Pitt Rivers Museum

Taking Heads as Trophies

Made for Trade?

Proyecto Tsantsa

How and Why Were Tsantsa Made?

Contextualising Tsantsa?

Critical Changes in the Museum

Next Steps

16. Julia Pastrana's Long Journey Home

Julia Pastrana's First One Hundred and 69 Years

Changing the Narrative to Restore Julia Pastrana's Rights and Memory

Julia Pastrana's Ten Year Repatriation Journey

17. Egyptian Mummified Remains: Communities of Descent and Practice

Framing Considerations

Defining Source Communities: A View from Egypt

Egyptian Perspectives on Displaying "Mummies

The Golden "Mummies" Parade: Counter Public Debates

Egypt's Dispersed Heritage: Human Remains in Comics

An Internal Conflict: Egyptian Community of Practice

18. The Curated Ossilegium: Museum Practices as Death and Mourning Rituals

Eternal Rest on Display

As Above, So Below

Greeting the Skull

Defining Respectful Care.

Caring for the Unknown Dead

Building Connections with the Displayed Dead

Towards a Continuum of Death Care

Part 4: Deathscapes and Heritage

19. From Dead Places to Places of the Dead: The Memorial Power of Battlefields, Ruins, and Burials in the Warscapes of Spain and the Western Front

Battlefields

Cemeteries

Ruined Settlements and Dead Places

Mass Graves

Discussion: Materiality, Identity, and Temporality

20. From Trauma to Tourism: Balancing the Needs of the Living and the Dead

The Need for Social Consensus

Consumerism and Kitschification

Something Other

Concluding Thoughts

21. Death, Memory, and Power: Public Memorial Culture of Moscow Necropolises

Cemetery Research Approaches

Cemeteries and Mortal Culture in the USSR

Novodevichy Cemetery: A Story of the Country's First Elite Cemetery

22. Not Their Heritage Theme Park: Honouring the Outcast at Crossbones Graveyard

Inside the Gates of Crossbones Graveyard

Maintaining the Grunge

The Politics of Curation

Outcast Dead (and Alive)

Intersectional Heritage Spaces

23. The Ghosts of Kūkai: Virtual Heritage and Landscapes of Death in Japan's Shikoku Pilgrimage

The Ghosts of Kūkai as Companion and Oneself

Kūkai's Death and "Long-Term Samadhi

The Virtual Shikoku Pilgrimage - Challenges in Representing These Aspects of Kūkai in the Digital Pilgrimage - What Inspirations Can We Use?

24. A Shadow Pandemic: Protest, Mourning, and Grassroots Memorialization in Mexico City

Femicide

Protest and Mourning

Grassroots Memorialization

Conclusions

Bibliography.

Part 5: Public Education and Engagement in Museums and Heritage

25. Engagement That Works: Practical Insights for Inviting the Public into Cemeteries

A Place within a Place

Youth Education

Tours for Adults

Scandals and Scoundrels

True Crime of Bygone Times

Events

Tips and Tricks

The Future

26. Talking about the D Word: Public Engagement in a Place of the Dead

Background of Arnos Vale Cemetery

The Purpose of Garden Cemeteries

Places for the Living as well as the Dead

Decline and Regeneration

Organisational Structure

For the Improvement of the Great Masses of Society - Public Engagement in AVC

Cemetery Tours

Public Talks

Engagement with Young People

Arts

27. The Death Positive Library

Designing Death Positive Futures with Libraries

Books, Mortality, and the Development of the Death Positive Library

28. Haunted Houses and Horrific History: Ghost Tours at Historic House Museums

Historic House Museums and Interpretive Programs

Why Ghosts and Haunts at Historic House Museums?

Successful Programs and Considerations at Historic House Museums

Authenticity and Truth

Beneath the Dignity

Ethical Challenges

Case Study: Blount Mansion

29. Walking, Public Engagement, and Pedagogy: Mobile Death Studies

Thanatological Imagination and Public Engagement

Mobile Pedagogy and the York Death and Culture Walk

Walking and Public Engagement through Mobile Pedagogy

Part 6: Death Studies and Heritage in Practice

30. The Cemetery Church of All Saints with the Ossuary

Introduction to the Church and the Ossuary.

History of the Church and the Ossuary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on: online resource; title from pdf title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed on December 20, 2023).

ISBN:

9781003195870

1003195873

9781000910179

1000910172

9781000910162

1000910164

OCLC:

1380464587