Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols: Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities

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Howard Morphy (Australian National University, USA)

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols

Ethnographic Collections and Source Communities

Howard Morphy (Australian National University, USA)

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English

Routledge
29 October 2019

Museums & museology; Indigenous peoples; Anthropology

Series: Museums in Focus

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums’ responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections.

Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the value material objects have to different ‘local’ communities – the museum and the source community – and the value-creation processes with which they are entangled. The focus on values and value brings the issue of repatriation and access into a dialogue between the two locals, questioning who has access to collections and whose values are taken into consideration. Placing the museum itself firmly at the centre of the debate, Morphy posits that museums constitute a kind of ‘local’ embedded in a trajectory of value.

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols challenges aspects of postcolonial theory that position museums in the past by presenting an argument that places relationships with communities as central to the future of museums. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, Indigenous studies, cultural studies, and history.

By: Howard Morphy (Australian National University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 267g
ISBN: 9781138565593
ISBN 10: 1138565598
Series: Museums in Focus
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 29 October 2019
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: living with museums 2. Museums, ethnographic collections, and the creation of value 3. Different locals: reflections on Indigenous Australian collections 4. Contested values in the curation of human remains 5.Open access versus the culture of protocols 6.Conclusion: collections, time, and identity Index

Howard Morphy is an Emeritus Professor and Head of the Centre for Digital Humanities Research at the Australian National University. In his career he has moved between museums and university departments and feels at home in collections and archives as much as in the field. He spent ten years at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University, as curator and lecturer. In 2013 he was awarded the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.