Experiencing Materiality : : Museum Perspectives / / Valentina Gamberi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Gamberi, Valentina,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface and Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 What Thing Is This? Indian Storytelling Scrolls --; CHAPTER 2 Curatorial Understanding of the Sacred within Museum Walls: Metalogues in Dialogue with Scholarship --; CHAPTER 3 Manipulating Sacred Force: Scrolls and Copies --; CHAPTER 4 Material Engagements in the Colony: Legacies and Changes in Perspective --; CHAPTER 5 Reconstructing the Sacred: Temples or Museum Galleries? --; CHAPTER 6 When Religious Power Is Limiting: The World Museum in Liverpool --; CHAPTER 7 For a Reappraisal of Phenomenology: A Perspectival Approach to Materiality --; Conclusions: Returning to Museums --; Appendix to the Pictures --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800730359; 9783110997675
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800730359?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Valentina Gamberi.

Representing a cutting-edge study of the junction between theoretical anthropology, material culture studies, religious studies and museum anthropology, this study examines the interaction between the human and the nonhuman in a museum setting usually defined as ‘non-Western’, ‘non-scientific’ and ‘religious.’ Combining an on-site analysis of exhibitive spaces with archival research and interviews with museum curators, the chapters highlight contradictions of museum practices, and suggests that museum practitioners use museum spaces and artefacts as a way of formulating new theoretical stances in material culture studies, thus viewing museums as producers of theories together with affective engagements.