Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums
Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum
1st Edition
Edited
By Wayne Modest, Peter Pels
November 19, 2025
Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to a colonial past? Since the nineteenth ...
Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology
1st Edition
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By Christina J. Hodge, Christina Kreps
July 31, 2025
Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology shifts museum anthropology’s relationship to the broader field from marginal to central by revealing the sophisticated transdisciplinary praxis (theory + practice) at the heart of current museum anthropologies. The book features international ...
Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures
1st Edition
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By Hansjörg Dilger, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Stephanie Schütze, Alexis von Poser
November 04, 2024
This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relations—between and among objects and media, people, and material and immaterial contexts—define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and professional ...
Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Zainabu Jallo
October 04, 2024
Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the ...
Developing the Hall of Human Origins: Adaptive Resilience
1st Edition
By Shelley L. Smith
September 10, 2024
This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural History’s David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins. As one of the most visited human evolution exhibits in the world and the largest such exhibit in the United States, it has tremendous influence on public perception and knowledge of...