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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.

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Author:   Valentina Gamberi
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781789209846

ISBN 10:   1789209846
Pages:   198
Publication Date:   03 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of 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

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Valentina Gamberi was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology in Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, from 2019 to 2020. She is currently one of the recipients of the junior fellowship at the Research Centre for Material Culture in Leiden. Her English articles are featured in Culture and Religion, the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Material Religion and Environmental Philosophy.

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