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This 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

Collections as Relations

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      Publisher Taylor & Francis
      Published 11 April 2024
      ISBN-13 9781032382555
      978-1032382555
      ISBN-10 1032382554
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This 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

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