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Book SynopsisThis book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relations between and among objects and media, people, and wider material and immaterial contexts define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and professional networks, discourses and practices, and increasingly museums and other collecting institutions themselves. Objects and media are created, manufactured, and used; they are sold, bartered, and stolen or taken with force; and they are categorized and displayed in museums, archives, and libraries far beyond their contexts of origin. The contributors argue that a focus on the often contested making and remaking of relations provides an innovative conceptual entry-point for understanding collections' and their' objects' and media's complex histories, contemporary webs of interactions, and potential futures. The chapters examine the local, translocal, and transregional relations of co
