Experiencing Materiality : Museum Perspectives /
Gamberi, Valentina
Experiencing Materiality : Museum Perspectives / Valentina Gamberi. - 1 online resource (198 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 What Thing Is This? Indian Storytelling Scrolls -- CHAPTER 2 Curatorial Understanding of the Sacred within Museum Walls: Metalogues in Dialogue with Scholarship -- CHAPTER 3 Manipulating Sacred Force: Scrolls and Copies -- CHAPTER 4 Material Engagements in the Colony: Legacies and Changes in Perspective -- CHAPTER 5 Reconstructing the Sacred: Temples or Museum Galleries? -- CHAPTER 6 When Religious Power Is Limiting: The World Museum in Liverpool -- CHAPTER 7 For a Reappraisal of Phenomenology: A Perspectival Approach to Materiality -- Conclusions: Returning to Museums -- Appendix to the Pictures -- References -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781789209846 9781800730359
10.1515/9781800730359 doi
Anthropological museums and collections.
Material culture.
Museums--Curatorship.
ART / Museum Studies.
affective engagements. archival research. art collectors. art. artefacts. artists. bible. buddhist. christianity. colonial. communities. cultural social. cultural. curatorial. engaging. exhibitive spaces. material culture studies. museum anthropology. museum curators. museum practices. museum practitioners. museum studies. museum. page turner. paintings. religion. religious studies. religious. theoretical anthropology. theoretical stances. viewing museums.
Experiencing Materiality : Museum Perspectives / Valentina Gamberi. - 1 online resource (198 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 What Thing Is This? Indian Storytelling Scrolls -- CHAPTER 2 Curatorial Understanding of the Sacred within Museum Walls: Metalogues in Dialogue with Scholarship -- CHAPTER 3 Manipulating Sacred Force: Scrolls and Copies -- CHAPTER 4 Material Engagements in the Colony: Legacies and Changes in Perspective -- CHAPTER 5 Reconstructing the Sacred: Temples or Museum Galleries? -- CHAPTER 6 When Religious Power Is Limiting: The World Museum in Liverpool -- CHAPTER 7 For a Reappraisal of Phenomenology: A Perspectival Approach to Materiality -- Conclusions: Returning to Museums -- Appendix to the Pictures -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781789209846 9781800730359
10.1515/9781800730359 doi
Anthropological museums and collections.
Material culture.
Museums--Curatorship.
ART / Museum Studies.
affective engagements. archival research. art collectors. art. artefacts. artists. bible. buddhist. christianity. colonial. communities. cultural social. cultural. curatorial. engaging. exhibitive spaces. material culture studies. museum anthropology. museum curators. museum practices. museum practitioners. museum studies. museum. page turner. paintings. religion. religious studies. religious. theoretical anthropology. theoretical stances. viewing museums.