{"product_id":"contested-holdings-museum-collections-in-political-epistemic-and-artistic-processes-of-return-9781800734234","title":"Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tGoing beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a timely book that tackles controversial, pressing issues from a range of angles in an innovatove way. The editors and authors indeed manage to reach beyond the currently predominant focus on provenance research, restitution and repatriation by foregrounding actors and challenges as well as political and epistemic aspects of appropriation and return.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Annette Loeseke\u003c\/strong\u003e, Bard College, Berlin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tAbbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFelicity Bodenstein, Damiana Oţoiu, and Eva-Maria Troelenberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: From Objects Back to People: Ways of Life and Loss\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Value of Art – a Human Life? Works of Art in the Crosshairs of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eUlrike Saß\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Return as Reconstruction: The Gwoździec Synagogue Replica in the Museum of Polish Jews\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEwa Manikowska\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Other Nefertiti: Symbolic Restitutions\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRuth E. Iskin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: The Subject of Return: Between Artefacts and Bodies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Blurring Objects: Life-Casts, Human Remains and Art History\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNoémie Etienne\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Of Phrenology, Reconciliation and Veneration: Exhibiting the Repatriated Life Cast of Māori Chief Takatahara at the Akaroa Museum\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristopher Sommer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Ancestors or Artefacts: Contention in the Definition, Retention and Retun of Ngarrinderji Old People\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCressida Fforde, Major Sumner, Loretta Sumner, Tristram Besterman and Steve Hemming\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: ‘The Making of Law’: Politics and Museum Ethics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e A Long Term Perspective on the Issue of the Return of Congolese Cultural Objects : Entangled Relations between Kinshasa and Tervuren (1930–1980)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePlacide Mumbembele Sanger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘How Would You Like to See Your Great-Grandfather in a Museum?’: The Issue of ‘Human Dignity’ in Repatriation Processes (Cases Involving French Museums)\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCristina Golomoz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e (De)Museifying Racial Taxonomies: The Display and\/ or the Restitution of Human Remains of Indigenous Peoples from Southern Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDamiana Oţoiu\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: Partial and Paused Returns\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e Baroque Returns: The Donations and Reuses of Francesco Gualdi\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFabrizio Federici\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Getting the Benin Bronzes back to Nigeria: The Art Market and the Formation of National Collections and Concepts of Heritage in Benin City and Lagos\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFelicity Bodenstein\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e What Future for Looted Syrian Antiquities?: The Clash Between the Law and Practice for the Repatriation of Cultural Property to Countries in Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eErin Thompson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unfinished Projects of 'Decentering' Western Museum Practices\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFelicity Bodenstein, Damiana Oţoiu and Eva-Maria Troelenberg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042744664407,"sku":"9781800734234","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800734234.jpg?v=1750955439","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contested-holdings-museum-collections-in-political-epistemic-and-artistic-processes-of-return-9781800734234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}