Tiffany Jenkins

Gebundenes Buch

Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections

The Crisis of Cultural Authority

Beschreibung

This book examines why human remains in museum collections have become controversial in the last three decades. It establishes that the issue has been promoted by influential members of the sector as part of a broader attempt to distance themselves from their foundational role as a consequence of a crisis of cultural authority.

Autor

Dr Tiffany Jenkins is arts and society director of the London based think-tank, the Institute of Ideas. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and a member of the Working Group on Cultural Property and Heritage Law. She writes and comments for the national media on cultural matters.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780415879606
• ISBN-10: 0415879604
• Artikelnr.: 29921592

Rezensionen

'This is an excellent and detailed introduction to an important topic in the museum field today.' - Annette Rein, ICOM News

'Fluent and well-argued' - Minerva

'describes, with thinly disguised dismay, the changes that led the British Museum and Natural History Museum to abandon their opposition to repatriating human remains.' - The Art Newspaper

'This is an excellent and detailed introduction to an important topic in the museum field today.' - Annette Rein, ICOM News

'Fluent and well-argued' - Minerva

'describes, with thinly disguised dismay, the changes that led the British Museum and Natural History Museum to abandon their opposition to repatriating human remains.' - The Art Newspaper