Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

ISBN-13: 9781138117112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 304 str.

Sandra H. Dudley; Amy Jane Barnes; Jennifer Binnie

Opis

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting.

Recenzje

“In these articles, a wide range of theory in materiality is investigated through complex objects and “things”... [but] the collection’s real strength emerges when the papers are considered as a group. Together, the papers present a broad swath of the most prominent (and sexiest) thinking and theory in museums and materiality… The collection is thus a valuable contribution to an ever-expanding body of work on objects and the cultural spaces and lives in which they resonate.” - Diana E. Marsh, Museum Anthropology

Spis treści

Introduction: objects, collectors and representations  Part I: the mutuality between objects and persons  Part II: Object meanings in context  Part III: Collectors and collecting in focus  Part IV: Representational and narrative strategies