Experiencing Materiality : : Museum Perspectives / / 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 ‘...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (198 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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