Reframing the Ethnographic Museum
Since the later part of the twentieth century, ethnographic museums have come under increasing scrutiny, and many have reflected on and changed their presentation as they questioned collections so often made by colonial officials and explorers. Now is a good time to explore whether new developments...
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| description | Since the later part of the twentieth century, ethnographic museums have come under increasing scrutiny, and many have reflected on and changed their presentation as they questioned collections so often made by colonial officials and explorers. Now is a good time to explore whether new developments in display and cultural politics provide a viable future for ethnographic museums. In particular, policies for restitution by colonial era institutions create a changed landscape for ethnographic display both in the countries from which they originate and in former colonising states.
Reframing the Ethnographic Museum presents a wide range of cultural settings across the world where ethnographic displays have appeared in their local circumstances. Non-European museum strategies raise new problems but also new solutions. Nationalism has been especially significant in museology in Asia, and in Africa new museum objectives have emerged. They share a problematic future in a digital age when the aura of artefacts is challenged by digital repositories and a public less willing to travel to visit original objects. Authors in this book grapple with the new complexities facing them as curators in the contemporary world.
Praise for Reframing the Ethnographic Museum
‘Ethnographic museums have been controversial – and have been undergoing re-invention – for decades. They are considered illegitimate, but have renewed prominence, as highly visible ""contact zones"" and theatres of cross-cultural mediation. This book reviews and explores the sector with insight and nuance, reporting the successes and failures of key curatorial projects, both within Europe and across the Global South.’
Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1514262026-02-07T05:08:35Z Reframing the Ethnographic Museum Rowlands, Michael Stanley, Nick Were, Graeme decolonisation in museums;digital collections;ethnographic display;Indigenous curation;natural history;new media;museums models;space politics;restitution;ethnographic museums;colonial collections;museum strategies;digital age;nationalism;museology;Asia;Africa;Europe;digital repositories;curatorial practices thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTS Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality Since the later part of the twentieth century, ethnographic museums have come under increasing scrutiny, and many have reflected on and changed their presentation as they questioned collections so often made by colonial officials and explorers. Now is a good time to explore whether new developments in display and cultural politics provide a viable future for ethnographic museums. In particular, policies for restitution by colonial era institutions create a changed landscape for ethnographic display both in the countries from which they originate and in former colonising states. Reframing the Ethnographic Museum presents a wide range of cultural settings across the world where ethnographic displays have appeared in their local circumstances. Non-European museum strategies raise new problems but also new solutions. Nationalism has been especially significant in museology in Asia, and in Africa new museum objectives have emerged. They share a problematic future in a digital age when the aura of artefacts is challenged by digital repositories and a public less willing to travel to visit original objects. Authors in this book grapple with the new complexities facing them as curators in the contemporary world. Praise for Reframing the Ethnographic Museum ‘Ethnographic museums have been controversial – and have been undergoing re-invention – for decades. They are considered illegitimate, but have renewed prominence, as highly visible ""contact zones"" and theatres of cross-cultural mediation. This book reviews and explores the sector with insight and nuance, reporting the successes and failures of key curatorial projects, both within Europe and across the Global South.’ Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge 2025-02-16T15:52:46Z 2025-02-16T15:52:46Z 2025-02-13T15:22:29Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98630 9781800085879 9781800085886 9781800085893 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/151426 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98630/1/9781800085862.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98630/1/9781800085862.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/98630/1/9781800085862.pdf UCL Press 10.14324/111.9781800085862 10.14324/111.9781800085862 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781800085879 9781800085886 9781800085893 264 London open access |
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