Museums and Restitution

New Practices, New Approaches

Louise Tythacott, Kostas Arvanitis (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-8153-9947-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have been addressing the subject at a regional, national and international level. In particular, it explores contemporary practices and recent claims, and investigates to what extent the question of restitution as an issue of ownership is still at large, or whether museums have found additional ways to conceptualise and practice restitution, by thinking beyond the issue of ownership. The challenges, benefits and drawbacks of recent and current museum practice are explored. At the same time, the book discusses how these museum practices are received , and informed, by source communities, institutional and governmental agendas and visitors' expectations in order to explore issues of authority, collaboration and shared or conflicting values between the different communities involved in the process. This important book will contribute to the developing body of literature that academics, professionals, policy makers and students can refer to in order to understand how restitution has been negotiated, 'materialised', practiced and evaluated within museums.

Louise Tythacott is Dr Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and was previously Lecturer in Museology at the University of Manchester. She has worked in the museum field for over a decade, latterly as Head of Asian, African, Oceanic and American Collections at National Museums Liverpool. She has published widely on the relationship between museums and anthropology: her books include Surrealism and the Exotic (2003) and The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display (2011). She is also a Managing Editor of the journal, Museum and Society. Kostas Arvanitis is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Museology at the University of Manchester, UK. His research crosses the fields of museology, archaeology and digital heritage. He has published on the theory and practice of digital, social and mobile media in museums and the interpretation of archaeological sites in urban environments.

Chapter 1 Museums and Restitution: An Introduction, Louise Tythacott, Kostas Arvanitis; Part I Overviews; Chapter 2 Crossing the Line: Restitution and Cultural Equity, Tristram Besterman; Chapter 3 Authority and the Power of Place: Exploring the Legitimacy of Authorized and Alternative Voices in the Restitution Discourse, Piotr Bienkowski; Part II Perspectives from Around the World; Chapter 4 Repatriation: Political Will and Museum Facilities, Eeva-Kristiina Harlin, Anne May Olli; Chapter 5 The Practice of Repatriation: A Case Study from New Zealand, Conal McCarthy; Chapter 6 'A Welcome and Important Part of their Role': The Impact of Repatriation on Museums in Scotland, Neil Curtis; Chapter 7 In Consideration of Restitution: Understanding and Transcending the Limits of Repatriation under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Helen A. Robbins; Part III Reflections on Returns; Chapter 8 Repatriating Agency: Animacy, Personhood and Agency in the Repatriation of Ojibwe Artefacts, Maureen Matthews; Chapter 9 Debating the Restitution of Human Remains from Dutch Museum Collections: The Case of the Skulls from Urk, Demelza van der Maas; Chapter 10, Ines Katenhusen; Chapter 11 Claiming the Parthenon Marbles Back: Whose Claim and on Behalf of Whom?, Kalliopi Fouseki;

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	320 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
ISBN-10	0-8153-9947-2 / 0815399472
ISBN-13	978-0-8153-9947-6 / 9780815399476
Zustand	Neuware