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Displaced Things
Displaced Things explores the movements of material things from the starting point and perspective of the object. It does so through the lens of displacement, drawing on earlier work on forced migration and conceptualising displacement in relation to anthropological ritual theory. It aims not only...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international,...
Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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Museum Objects
Experiencing the Properties of Things
Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies
Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and...
Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge