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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 wider material and immaterial contexts – define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and ...
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 of America, it has tremendous influence on public perception and ...
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By Christina J. Hodge, Christina Kreps
March 14, 2024
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 ...
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By Zainabu Jallo
March 31, 2023
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 ...