TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sarah Byrne et.all
AU  - Sarah Byrne
TI  - Unpacking the collection : : networks of material and social agency in the museum
SN  - 9781461429173
U1  - 069.075 BYR 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York 
PB  - : Springer
KW  - Museums--Collection management
KW  - ;Material culture--Research
KW  - ;Museum exhibits--Social aspects
N1  - 	pt. 1. Introduction --
pt. 2. Processes and perspectives --
pt. 3. Collectors and nationhood --
pt. 4. Communities and collections --
pt. 5. Individual collectors, objects and 'types'
N2  - 	
Museum collections are often perceived as static entities hidden away in storerooms or trapped behind glass cases. By focusing on the dynamic histories of museum collections, new research reveals their pivotal role in shaping a wide range of social relations. ¡Over time and across space the interactions between these artefacts and ¡the ¡people and institutions who made, traded, collected, researched and ¡exhibited them have generated complex networks of material and social agency. In this innovative volume, the contributors draw on a broad range of source materials to explore the cross-cultural interactions which have created museum collections. These case studies contribute significantly to the development of new theoretical frameworks to ¡examine broader questions of materiality, agency, and identity in the past and present. ¡Grounded in case studies from individual objects and museum ¡collections from North America, Europe, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia, this truly international volume juxtaposes historical, ¡geographical, and cross-cultural studies. This work will be of great interest to archaeologists and anthropologists studying material culture, as well as researchers in museum studies and cultural heritage management
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