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The Long Way Home - The Meaning And Values Of Repatriation

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 Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and culturally significant objects have been returned to the care of indigenous communities, although the fate of bones and burial artifacts in numerous collections remains unresolved and, in some instances, the subject of controversy. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains.
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Museum Websites And Social Media - Issues Of Participation, Sustainability, Trust And Diversity

by Ana Sanchez Laws

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 Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.
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Visitors To The House Of Memory - Identity And Political Education At The Jewish Museum Berlin

by Victoria Bishop Kendzia

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 By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.
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Museum, Place, Architecture And Narrative - Nordic Maritime Museums' Portrayals Of Shipping, Seafarers And Maritime Communities

by Annika Bünz

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 A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage...
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Museum Times - Changing Histories In South Africa

by Leslie Witz

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 Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories.
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Extinct Monsters To Deep Time - Conflict, Compromise, And The Making Of Smithsonian'S Fossil Halls

by Diana E. Marsh

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 From Extinct Monsters to Deep Time is an ethnography that documents the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of the museum in the 21st century.
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Exhibiting Europe In Museums - Transnational Networks, Collections, Narratives, And Representations

by Kerstin Poehls, Stefan Krankenhagen e Wolfram Kaiser

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 This book investigates how museums exhibit Europe. Based on research in nearly 100 museums across the Continent and interviews with cultural policy makers and museum curators, it studies the growing transnational activities of state institutions, societal organizations, & people in the museum field such as attempts to Europeanize collection policy.
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Future Of Indigenous Museums - Perspectives From The Southwest Pacific

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 Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. This book examines how museums have evolved particularly in the non-western world to incorporate the present and the future in the display of culture.
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Contested Holdings - Museum Collections In Political, Epistemic And Artistic Processes Of Return

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 Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.
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Exchanging Objects - Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology At The Smithsonian Institution

by Catherine A. Nichols

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 As an historical account of the exchange of "duplicate specimens" between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as "duplicate specimens," making them potential candidates for exchange. This historical form of what museum professionals would now call deaccessioning considers the intellectual and technical requirement of classifying objects in museums, and suggests that a deeper understanding of past museum practice can inform mission-driven contemporary museum work.
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Museum Of Mankind - Man And Boy In The British Museum Ethnography Department

by Ben Burt

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 The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum.
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Transforming Author Museums - From Sites Of Pilgrimage To Cultural Hubs

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 Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts, imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts, architectural concepts, and artistic interventions. As this volume shows, the changing of spaces asks how literary museums create new ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects, readers, and tourists.
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Too Jewish Or Not Jewish Enough - Ritual Objects And Avant-Garde Art At The Jewish Museum Of New York

by Jeffrey Abt

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 Displays of Jewish ritual objects in public, non-Jewish settings by Jews are a comparatively recent phenomenon. So too is the establishment of Jewish museums. This volume explores the origins of the Jewish Museum of New York and its evolution from collecting and displaying Jewish ritual objects, to Jewish art, to exhibiting avant-garde art devoid of Jewish content, created by non-Jews. Established within a rabbinic seminary, the museum’s formation and development reflect changes in Jewish society over the twentieth century as it grappled with choices between religion and secularism, particularism and universalism, and ethnic pride and assimilation.
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State Practices And Zionist Images - Shaping Economic Development In Arab Towns In Israel

by David A. Wesley

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 Focusing on Arab land loss inside Israel proper and the struggle over development resources, this study explores the interaction between Arab local authorities, their Jewish neighbors, and the agencies of the national government in regard to developing local and regional industrial areas.
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Museum Times - Changing Histories In South Africa

by Leslie Witz

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 Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories.
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The Witness As Object - Video Testimony In Memorial Museums

by Steffi De Jong

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 Today more than ever before, the historical witness is now a "museum object" in the form of video interviews. With a focus on Holocaust museums, this study scrutinizes this new global phenomenon of the "musealisation" of testimony, exploring the processes, prerequisites, and consequences of video testimonies as exhibits.
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Crossroads Of Heritage And Religion - Legacy And Sustainability Of World-Heritage-Site Moravian Christiansfeld

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 Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of Moravian Christiansfeld, this anthology reaches back to when the church settlement was founded, examines its legacy within Danish culture and modern society, and brings this history into the present and the ongoing heritagization processes.
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Contested Holdings - Museum Collections In Political, Epistemic And Artistic Processes Of Return

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 Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.
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Museum, Place, Architecture And Narrative - Nordic Maritime Museums' Portrayals Of Shipping, Seafarers And Maritime Communities

by Annika Bünz

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 A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage...
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Contested Holdings - Museum Collections In Political, Epistemic And Artistic Processes Of Return

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 Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.
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Museum, Place, Architecture And Narrative - Nordic Maritime Museums’ Portrayals Of Shipping, Seafarers And Maritime Communities

by Annika Bünz

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 A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage...
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Transforming Author Museums - From Sites Of Pilgrimage To Cultural Hubs

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 This book addresses how literary museums have changed since the form was established, what challenges they face today and how we might imagine them in the future.
Transforming Author Museums - From Sites Of Pilgrimage To Cultural Hubs

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Literary museums today must respond to new challenges; the traditional image of the author’s home museum as a sacred place of literary pilgrimage centered around a national hero has been questioned, and literary museums have begun to develop new strategies centered not only on biography, but also literary texts, imagined spaces, different readers, historical contexts, architectural concepts, and artistic interventions. As this volume shows, the changing of spaces asks how literary museums create new ways of interlinking real and literary spaces, texts, objects, readers, and tourists.
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Exchanging Objects - Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology At The Smithsonian Institution

by Catherine A. Nichols

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 Explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as â€œduplicate specimens,â€ making them potential candidates for exchange.
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