Howard Morphy

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols (eBook, ePUB)

Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters into a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of its collections into an infinite future, whilst also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351339544
• Artikelnr.: 57924564

Autorenporträt

Howard Morphy is an Emeritus Professor and Head of the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University. In his career he has moved between museums and university departments and feels at home in collections and archives as much as in the field. He spent ten years at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, as curator and lecturer. In 2013 he was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: living with museums
2. Museums, ethnographic collections, and the creation of value
3. Different locals: reflections on Indigenous Australian collections
4. Contested values in the curation of human remains
5.Open access versus the culture of protocols
6.Conclusion: collections, time, and identity
Index

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List of figures

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: living with museums

2. Museums, ethnographic collections, and the creation of value

3. Different locals: reflections on Indigenous Australian collections

4. Contested values in the curation of human remains

5.Open access versus the culture of protocols

6.Conclusion: collections, time, and identity

Index