{"product_id":"museums-societies-and-the-creation-of-value-9780367644574","title":"Museums Societies and the Creation of Value","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuseums, Societies and the Creation of Value\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the ways in which museums and the use of their collections have contributed to, and continue to be engaged with, value creation processes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncluding chapters from many of the leading figures in museum anthropology, as well as from outstanding early-career researchers, this volume presents a diverse range of international case studies that bridge the gap between theory and practice. It demonstrates that ethnographic collections and the museums that hold and curate them have played a central role in the value creation processes that have changed attitudes to cultural differences. The essays engage richly with many of the important issues of contemporary museum discourse and practice. They show how collections exist at the ever-changing point of articulation between the source communities and the people and cultures of the museum and challenge presentist critiques of museums that position them as locked into the tim\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eList of Figures; List of Contributors\u003c\/em\u003e; \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e; \u003cb\u003eSection I Making and Remaking of Collections;\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 1 \u003c\/b\u003eInalienable patrimony and museums: re-valuing the MacGregor\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ecollection\u003cstrong\u003e;\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 2 \u003c\/b\u003eThe emergence of value in the process of the Sámi repatriation:\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cem\u003eBååstede\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e;\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 3 \u003c\/b\u003eColonial collections in British military museums: of objects, materiality and sentiment;\u003cb\u003e Chapter 4 \u003c\/b\u003eRephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging; \u003cb\u003eSection II Creating Value – Inside and Outside the Museum;\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter 5 \u003c\/b\u003eAboriginal secret-sacred objects, their values and future prospects; \u003cb\u003eChapter 6 \u003c\/b\u003eSystems of value in Vanuatu: reflections on the Ambae textile complex; \u003cb\u003eChapter 7 \u003c\/b\u003eDisplaying, creating and mobilizing value in a museum exhibition: \u003cem\u003ePacific Currents\u003c\/em\u003e in Cambridge;\u003cb\u003e Chapter 8 \u003c\/b\u003eThe revaluation of historical collections by source communities: the string figures of Yirrkala;\u003cb\u003e Section III Engagement and Return; Chapter 9 ‘\u003c\/b\u003eGo throw it in the river’, shifting values and the productive confusions of collaboration with museum collections;\u003cb\u003e Chapter 10 \u003c\/b\u003eDigital return of an ethnographic museum collection and value creation by an originating community in Baguia, Timor-Leste;\u003cb\u003e Chapter 11 \u003c\/b\u003eDigital\/object\/beings and 3D replication in the intercultural museum context: have you socialized your clones?;\u003cb\u003e Section IV Indigenous Agency; Chapter 12 \u003c\/b\u003eValue creation and museums from an Indigenous perspective;\u003cb\u003e Chapter 13 \u003c\/b\u003eYolŋu pathways to value creation in museum and archival collections: the work and journey of Joseph Gumbula\u003cb\u003e; Chapter 14 \u003c\/b\u003eCreating value through cultural capital: ‘\u003cem\u003eWitira Kanyila\u003c\/em\u003e – \"work as one to make it strong\"';\u003cb\u003e Index.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017999876439,"sku":"9780367644574","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/museums-societies-and-the-creation-of-value-9780367644574","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}