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1 online resource |
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Routledge museums in focus
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| Summary |
"Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters into a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of its collections into an infinite future, whilst also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the value material objects have to different 'local' communities - the museum and the source community - and the value creation processes with which they are entangled. The focus on values and value brings the issue of repatriation and access into a dialogue between the two locals, questioning who has access to collections and whose values are taken into consideration. Placing the museum itself firmly at the centre of the debate, Morphy posits that museums constitute a kind of 'local' embedded in a trajectory of value. Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols challenges aspects of postcolonial theory that position museums in the past by presenting an argument that places relationships with communities as central to the future of museums. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, cultural studies and history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"Routledge Focus" |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Howard Morphy is an Emeritus Professor and Head of the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University. In his career he has moved between museums and university departments and feels at home in collections and archives as much as in the field. He spent ten years at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, as curator and lecturer. In 2013 he was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 22, 2019) |
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Ethnological museums and collections
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Museum techniques
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Museums and indigenous peoples
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Cultural property -- Protection
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Indigenous peoples -- Civil rights
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Social sciences
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203705186 |
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0203705181 |
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9781351339537 |
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1351339532 |
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9781351339544 |
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1351339540 |
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9781351339551 |
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1351339559 |
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