Collections As Relations : Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures / edited by Hansjörg Dilger [and four others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dilger, Hansjörg, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in anti-politics and democratic crisis.

Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Philosophy.

Cultural property.

Museum techniques.

Museum objects.

Art objects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations.

Contents:

Cover

Endorsement

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Introduction: Collections as Relations-Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures

Collections as Relations-ontologies, Networks, and (Affective) World-Making

(Im)possibilities of Decolonial Collaboration and Institutional Transformation

New Opportunities for (Transregional) Cooperation Between Universities and Collecting Institutions

PART I: Politics of Identity and Belonging

PART II: Constructions of Cultural Heritage and Property Disputes

Part III: Epistemic Cultures and Knowledge Infrastructures

Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

Part I Politics of Identity and Belonging

1 Shared Soundscapes: Everyday Archiving and the Collaborative (Re)activation of Anthropological Collections

Introduction (Co-Written)

The Northern Coast: Cultural Heritage and Everyday Archiving (Gisela Cánepa Koch)

Music and Dance in Lambayeque: Identity Politics, Heritage, and Cultural Entrepreneurs

The Lambayeque Collection: Past and Present Collaborations

Activating Historical Photographs and Collaborations: Entrepreneurial Curators and Archival Inequalities

The Central Rainforest: Politics of Innovation and Everyday Archiving (Ingrid Kummels)

Asháninka and Nomatsigenga Music and Dance in Flux

The Individual Archive and Its Distinctive Agencies

Current Soundscapes for Reactivation of Historical Audio Recordings

An Interim Balance: Everyday Archiving and Its Relevance for Identity Formation (Co-Written)

2 Curating and Creating Relations Between Lived Worlds: A Practice-Oriented Methodology for Museum Engagements With Indigenous Communities From Amazonia

Introduction.

Thinking Things Anthropologically

Upper Rio Negro's Object Regime

Curating and Creating Relations

Engaging With Collections

Producing Things

Remaking Powerful Relations

Co-Creating Collaborative Works

3 Making Kin, Reanimating Relations in the Museum Collection

Introduction

Glocal Europe: Reframing Collection Relations at the MEK

Displaying Things, Animating Relations

Rescue Missions and Blind Spots

Conclusion: Making Kin in the Collection

Part II Constructions of Cultural Heritage and Property Disputes

4 Cultural Heritage From Colonial Context as Disputed Heritage: The Case of Cameroon and Germany

Colonial Context and Translocation of Artefacts: Some Ways of Removal

Contested Ownership, Queries for Restitution, Symbolic Reappropriation

Disputed Heritage, "Shared Heritage"?

Concluding Remarks

5 The Ayoréode Collection at the BASA Museum as a Glocal Place: On Movements and Displacements

On "Place" and the "Glocal"-Theoretical Considerations

Refractions-On Ayoréode History

A Journey Begins-Collections Affordances

From Erami to Cojñone-Gari

Traces, Gaps, and Silences in Collection Stories

Beyond Eramone-Living in Cojñone-Gari

New Paths and Territories

6 Towards Democratising the Formation of Knowledge: Researching Sensitive Collections From Namibia Collectively

Confronting Colonial Pasts

Listening to People and Things

Sensing History

Tying Networks of Knowledge

Returning Home

Part III Epistemic Cultures and Knowledge Infrastructures

7 The Afterlives of Gold Antiquities From Southeast Asia: Digging and Collecting for the Art Market in Indonesia

Entanglement Between Materiality and Attributed Value

Digging for the Art Market in Indonesia

Land Sites in East Java

River Excavations in Southeast Sumatra

The Trajectories of Knowledge in the Ethnologisches Museum of Berlin

Collector Jacob Anthonie Dieduksman: Faked and Genuine Archaeological Finds

Collector Baron Joachim Maria Heinrich Freiherr Von Brenner-Felsach: A Ring of Unknown Provenance

Collector Conrad Ernst August Prillwitz: Illegal Trade in Antiquities

Collector At. Merten: A "Sultan's Ring"

Conclusion On the Biases of Gold

8 Challenging the Jacobsen Collections From the American Northwest Coast and Alaska: A Long Durée of Multilateral Engagement and Complex Relationships 1881-2021

The Berlin Jacobsen Collection From the 19th Century and the Purpose of Its Creation

Commercial Interests in Collecting

Collectors and Businessmen-The Jacobsen Brothers

Academic Profiteers and Indigenous "Service Providers"

"Upgrading" to an Art Collection

Historical Significance of the Jacobsen Collection

"Visual Repatriation"-The Yup'ik of Alaska Explore the Jacobsen Collection

Exhibiting the Jacobsen Collection

The Project "One History-Two Perspectives" (2009-2012)

Alternatives: The Use of Performance and Media in Exhibitions

"Thin Ice": Facing the Environment and Climate Change in Ethnological Museums

Dena'inaq' Huch'ulyeshi: The Dena'ina Way of Living

Present Relevance, Reowning Knowledge, Forms of Exchange

Provenance Research and the Significance of Jacobsen's Written Legacy

The Restitution to the Chugach Alaska Corporation

Interchange and Gifts

Consequences and Challenges for the Future Treatment of the Collection

The Jacobsen Collection From Alaska and Climate Change.

Charles Edensu's Totem Pole From the Northwest Coast and What It Says About Us

Implications and Final Remarks

9 Vegetal Entanglements: Flowers and Medical Herbs as Wissensfiguren in Chinese Art and Visual Culture

Botanical Knowledge and Local Histories in Painting Albums of Rare Herbs

Ink Orchids and Somatic Aesthetics

Flower Imagery and Shamanism in the Nine Songs

The Orchid as Wissensfigur in Medical Literature

10 From Index Cards to Digital Catalogues: Incomplete Object Documentation as Reflection Space

Infrastructural Relations in Museum Documentation

Methods and Fieldwork

Craftwork Features of Collections Documentation

Interconnected Lines of Work

Translation of Know-How

Value of "Good Hands"

From Index Cards to Digital Catalogues

Digitisation and System Changes

From Index Cards to Online Catalogue

The Role of Imperfect Tools

Conclusions

Funding

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781040210079

1040210074

9781003370024

1003370020

9781040210024

1040210023

OCLC:

1460295439