Unpacking the Collection: Networks of Material and Social Agency in the Museum

337 Pages·2011·9.95 MB·English

by  Sarah Byrne

One World Archaeology
Sarah Byrne
Anne Clarke
Rodney Harrison
Editors
Robin Torrence
Unpacking
the Collection
Networks of Material and
Social Agency in the Museum
One World Archaeology
SeriesEditors
HeatherBurke
GustavoPolitis
GabrielCooney
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Sarah Byrne Anne Clarke Rodney Harrison
Robin Torrence
Editors
Unpacking the Collection
Networks of Material and Social Agency
in the Museum
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Editors
SarahByrne AnneClarke
CentreforMuseums,Heritage, DepartmentofArchaeology
andMaterialCultureStudies SchoolofPhilosophicalandHistorical
InstituteofArchaeology Inquiry
UniversityCollege,London UniversityofSydney
London,UK Sydney,NSW,Australia
[email protected] [email protected]
RodneyHarrison RobinTorrence
FacultyofArts AustralianMuseum
TheOpenUniversity Sydney,NSW,Australia
MiltonKeynes,UK and
[email protected]
SchoolofPhilosophicalandHistorical
Inquiry
UniversityofSydney
NSW,Australia
[email protected]
ISBN978-1-4419-8221-6 e-ISBN978-1-4419-8222-3
DOI10.1007/978-1-4419-8222-3
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Contents
PartI Introduction
1 Networks,AgentsandObjects:FrameworksforUnpacking
MuseumCollections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SarahByrne,AnneClarke,RodneyHarrison,andRobinTorrence
PartII ProcessesandPerspectives
2 “SuitableforDecorationofHallsandBilliardRooms”:
Finding Indigenous Agency in Historic Auction
andSaleCatalogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
RobinTorrenceandAnneClarke
3 Consuming Colonialism: Curio Dealers’ Catalogues,
SouvenirObjectsandIndigenousAgencyinOceania . . . . . . . . 55
RodneyHarrison
4 Plumes,PipesandValuables:ThePapuanArtefact-Trade
inSouthwestNewGuinea,1845–1888. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
SusanM.Davies
PartIII CollectorsandNationhood
5 Donors,Loaners,DealersandSwappers:TheRelationship
behindtheEnglishCollectionsatthePittRiversMuseum . . . . . 119
ChrisWingfield
6 TheBekomMaskandtheWhiteStar:TheFateofOthers’
ObjectsattheMuséeduquaiBranly,Paris . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
AlexandraLoumpet-Galitzine
7 Agency,PrestigeandPolitics:DutchCollectingAbroad
andLocalResponses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
PieterterKeurs
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PartIV CommunitiesandCollections
8 CraftingHopiIdentitiesattheMuseumofNorthernArizona . . . 185
KelleyHays-Gilpin
9 PathwaystoKnowledge: Research,AgencyandPower
Relations in the Context of Collaborations Between
MuseumsandSourceCommunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
LindyAllenandLouiseHamby
10 ‘ObjectsasAmbassadors’:RepresentingNationThrough
MuseumExhibitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
ChantalKnowles
11 SeatsofPowerandIconographiesofIdentityinEcuador . . . . . . 249
ColinMcEwanandMaria-IsabelSilva
PartV IndividualCollectors,Objectsand‘Types’
12 HedleyTakesaHoliday:CollectionsfromKanakPeople
intheAustralianMuseum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
JudePhilp
13 Death,MemoryandCollecting:CreatingtheConditions
forAncestralisationinSouthLondonHouseholds . . . . . . . . . . 289
FionaParrott
14 TrialsandTraces:A.C.Haddon’sAgencyasMuseumCurator . . 307
SarahByrne
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Contributors
LindyAllen IndigenousCultures,MuseumVictoria,Melbourne,VIC,Australia,
[email protected]
SarahByrne CentreforMuseums,HeritageandMaterialCultureStudies,
InstituteofArchaeology,UniversityCollege,London,London,UK,
[email protected]
AnneClarke DepartmentofArchaeology,SchoolofPhilosophicalandHistorical
Inquiry,UniversityofSydney,Sydney,NSW,Australia,
[email protected]
SusanM.Davies IndependentScholar,Arundel,QLD,Australia,
[email protected]
LouiseHamby ResearchSchoolofHumanitiesandtheArts,AustralianNational
University,Canberra,ACT,Australia,[email protected]
RodneyHarrison FacultyofArts,TheOpenUniversity,MiltonKeynes,UK,
[email protected]
KelleyHays-Gilpin DepartmentofAnthropology,NorthernArizonaUniversity,
Flagstaff,AZ,USA;MuseumofNorthernArizona,Flagstaff,AZ,USA,
[email protected]
ChantalKnowles DepartmentofWorldCultures,NationalMuseumsScotland,
Edinburgh,Scotland,[email protected]
AlexandraLoumpet-Galitzine UniversityofYaounde,Yaounde,Cameroon;
Asia-PacificNetwork,CNRS-FMSH,Paris,France,[email protected]
ColinMcEwan DepartmentofAfrica,OceaniaandtheAmericas,TheBritish
Museum,London,UK,[email protected]
FionaParrott DepartmentofSociologyandAnthropology,FacultyofSocialand
BehaviouralSciences,UniversityofAmsterdam,Amsterdam,TheNetherlands,
[email protected]
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viii Contributors
JudePhilp MacleayMuseum,UniversityofSydney,NSW,Australia,
[email protected]
Maria-IsabelSilva MuseumCentroCivicoCiudadAlfaro,Montecristi,Ecuador,
[email protected]
PieterterKeurs DepartmentofCollectionsandResearch,NationalMuseum
ofAntiquities,Leiden,TheNetherlands,[email protected]
RobinTorrence AustralianMuseum,Sydney,NSW,Australia;Schoolof
PhilosophicalandHistoricalInquiry,UniversityofSydney,Sydney,NSW,
Australia,[email protected]
ChrisWingfield PittRiversMuseum,OxfordUniversity,Oxford,UK,
chris.wingfi[email protected]
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