Experiencing materiality : museum perspectives /

"Representing a cutting-edge study of the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study examines the interaction between the human and the nonhuman in a museum setting usually defined as 'non-Western', '...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gamberi, Valentina (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2021.
Edition:First Edition.
Subjects:
Material culture.
Anthropological museums and collections.
Museums > Curatorship.
Culture matérielle.
Anthropologie > Musées et collections.
material culture (discipline)
ART / Museum Studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Materiality or the problem
  • What thing is this? Indian storytelling scrolls
  • Curatorial understanding of the Sacred within museum walls: Metalogues in dialogue with scholarship
  • Manipulating sacred force: Scrolls and copies
  • Material engagements in the colony: Legacies and changes in perspective
  • Reconstructing the sacred: Temples or museum galleries?
  • When religious power is limiting: The World Museum of Liverpool
  • For a reappraisal of phenomenology: A perspectival approach to materiality
  • Conclusions. Returning to museums.

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