Contested Holdings

Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return

306 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Museums and Collections
• Themen: Lexika Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften / Museumskunde Museologie und Heritage Studies
• ISBN: 9781800734234
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.02.2022
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Herausgegeben von: Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Damiana Otoiu, Felicity Bodenstein