The association of shoemakers (cordiners in Scotland) with St Crispin, their patron saint, remained so strong that, at least until the early twentieth century, a shoemaker was popularly called a ""Crispin"" and collectively ""sons of Crispin"". Medieval Scottish cordiners mainta…
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How and why do works make their way into a public art collection? Who decides what will be hung on the walls, placed on plinths, displayed in cases? These important, but seldom discussed, questions lie at the heart of this 'cultural biography' of the 70 years during which the Ro…
Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the working group Collecting and Display, held at Schwabenakademie Irsee, Germany, in May 2013.
This volume investigates Pacific collections held in Australian museums, art galleries and archives, and the diverse group of 19th and 20th century collectors responsible for their acquisition. The nineteen essays reveal varied personal and institutional motivations that eventua…
An international perspective on archives management, providing guidance relevant both to collections-based repositories and to organizations responsible for managing their own institutional archives.
This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development. The book brings together…
"This book presents innovative and creative ethnographic perspectives on the intersection between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage resulting from ethnographic and artistic research by the TRACES project (an interdisciplinary research project funded by the EU's …
'The Persistence of Memory' is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, Liverpool, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory.
March 31, 2017 marked the centenary of the transfer of the Danish colony--the Danish West Indies (today's US Virgin Islands)--to the US. During the 100 years that had passed, the history had only occasionally been revisited in Danish public debate and history books--often shaped…
Literary archives differ from most other types of archival papers in that their locations are more diverse and difficult to predict. The essays collected in this book derive from the recent work of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, whose focus on diaspora provides a philo…
This volume is the first to examine the museum landscape of all post-socialist EU member states. How do museums present the Second World War, the Holocaust, and Soviet crimes? As part of their nations' attempts to join the EU, some "invoke" Europe, aiming to prove their European…
This book argues that the impressive range of belongings that can be connected to Duchess Matilda Plantagenet allows us to perceive elite women's performance of power, even when they are largely absent from the official documentary record.
"Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsidering Albert and David Maysles's Gi…
Until the recent political shift pushed workers back into the media spotlight, the mainstream media had largely ignored this significant part of American society in favour of the moneyed 'upscale' consumer for more than four decades. Christopher R. Martin now reveals why and how…
Now in paperback, this looks at how some of the greatest treasures of world archaeology ended up in the museums of the West. The author argues controversially that these objects should remain where they are, and not be returned to the lands from which they came.