Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

ISBN 10: 1800734239 ISBN 13: 9781800734234

Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2022

Riassunto

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Felicity Bodenstein is a lecturer in the history of museums and heritage studies at Sorbonne University, Paris. She is also a principal investigator of the digital humanities project, financed by the Ernest von Siemens foundation, “Digital Benin” (https://digital-benin.org/) that will bring together data from close to 200 museums holding pieces from the 1897 British colonial expedition to Benin in their collections.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Berghahn Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1800734239
• ISBN 13: 9781800734234
• Rilegatura: Rilegatura all'americana
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 293
• Redattore: Bodenstein Felicity, Otoiu Damiana, Troelenberg Eva-Maria
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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