Experiencing materiality

Experiencing materiality: museum perspectives

by Gamberi, Valentina

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"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', 'non-scientific' and 'religious.' Combining an on-site analysis of exhibitive spaces with archival research and interviews with museum curators, the chapters highlight contradictions of museum practices, and suggests tha…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Experiencing materiality : museum perspectives / Valentina Gamberi.

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"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', 'non-scientific' and 'religious.' Combining an on-site analysis of exhibitive spaces with archival research and interviews with museum curators, the chapters highlight contradictions of museum practices, and suggests that museum practitioners use museum spaces and artefacts as a way of formulating new theoretical stances in material culture studies, thus viewing museums as producers of theories together with affective engagements"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2021
  • Edition:First Edition

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
  • Place of Publication:New York
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:©2021

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781800730359, 1800730357
  • oclc:on1198086419
  • LC Classification:GN406
  • Dewey Decimal:306

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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Subjects

Anthropological museums and collections Anthropologie -- Musées et collections ART -- Museum Studies Culture matérielle Material culture material culture (discipline) Museums -- Curatorship

Writers

Gamberi, Valentina

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