TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gamberi,Valentina
TI  - Experiencing Materiality: Museum Perspectives 
SN  - 9781789209846
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Anthropological museums and collections
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Museums
KW  - Curatorship
KW  - ART / Museum Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - affective engagements
KW  - archival research
KW  - art collectors
KW  - art
KW  - artefacts
KW  - artists
KW  - bible
KW  - buddhist
KW  - christianity
KW  - colonial
KW  - communities
KW  - cultural social
KW  - cultural
KW  - curatorial
KW  - engaging
KW  - exhibitive spaces
KW  - material culture studies
KW  - museum anthropology
KW  - museum curators
KW  - museum practices
KW  - museum practitioners
KW  - museum studies
KW  - museum
KW  - page turner
KW  - paintings
KW  - religion
KW  - religious studies
KW  - religious
KW  - theoretical anthropology
KW  - theoretical stances
KW  - viewing museums
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730359?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730359
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ER  -