Title Displaced things in museums and beyond : loss, liminality and hopeful encounters / Sandra H. Dudley

Published Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Part 1. Departures -- Displaced things -- Separating things -- Part 2. Liminal things -- Representational things -- Subjunctive things -- Part 3. Reincorporations -- Hopeful things Summary "Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular approach - a displacement anthropology - to the museum, anthropology and material culture. The book explores the ways in which the objects are experienced in their present, displaced settings, and the implications and potentialities they carry. It offers insights into matters of difference and the hope that may be offered by transformative encounters between persons and things. Drawing on anthropological studies of ritual to conceptualise and examine displacement and its implications and possibilities, Dudley develops her arguments through exploration of displaced objects now in museums and dislocated or exiled from their prior geographical, historical, cultural, intellectual and personal contexts. The book's approach and conclusions are relevant far beyond the museum, showing that even in the most difficult of circumstances there is agency, distinction and dignity in the choices and impacts that are made, and that things and places as well as people have efficacy and potency in those choices. In Displaced Things, displacement emerges as fundamental to understanding the lives of things and their relationships with human beings, and the places, however defined, that they make and pass within. The book will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, anthropology, culture and history"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Sandra H. Dudley is Professor of Museum Anthropology and Head of the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her research is focused in Southeast Asia and South Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, India) and the UK. She is author of Materialising Exile (2010), editor of Museum Materialities (2010) and Museum Objects (2012), and co-editor of Textiles from Burma (2003), The Thing about Museums (2011) and Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories (2012) Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 1, 2020) Subject Material culture -- Philosophy Museums -- Philosophy Displacement (Psychology) Kayah (Southeast Asian people) -- Material culture Cultural property -- Protection -- Moral and ethical aspects Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects Museums -- Acquisitions -- Social aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology Antiquities Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects Cultural property -- Protection -- Moral and ethical aspects Displacement (Psychology) Museums -- Philosophy Burma -- Antiquities. Burma Form Electronic book LC no. 2020027108 ISBN 9781317392354 1317392353 9781315678832 1315678837 9781317392378 131739237X 1317392361 9781317392361

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