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

ISBN-13: 9781138565593 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 126 str.

Howard Morphy (Australian National Unive

Opis

The Dispersed Local and the Culture of Protocols examines the issues of value and rights associated with objects housed in museum collections. Arguing that the two are closely related, Morphy focuses in particular on issues surrounding the repatriation of human remains and digital repatriation of material culture and archival material. Drawing a theoretical distinction between two `locals' - the local of the museum and the local of the source community - he explores questions such as the rights of communities of origin, the separation brought between the two by historical geopolitical transformations, and the role of museums in adding value to objects in collections.

O autorze

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.