{"product_id":"displaced-things-in-museums-and-beyond-loss-liminality-and-hopeful-encounters-paperback","title":"Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond: Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra H. Dudley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDisplaced Things in Museums and Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular, displacement approach to the museum, anthropology and material culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book explores the ways in which the objects are experienced in their present, displaced settings, and the implications and potentialities they carry. It offers insights into matters of difference and the hope that may be offered by transformative encounters between persons and things. Drawing on anthropological studies of ritual to conceptualise and examine displacement and its implications and possibilities\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Dudley develops her arguments through exploration of displaced objects now in museums and dislocated or exiled from their prior geographical, historical, cultural, intellectual and personal contexts. The book's approach and conclusions are relevant far beyond the museum, showing that even in the most difficult of circumstances there is agency, distinction and dignity in the choices and impacts that are made, and that things and places as well as people have efficacy and potency in those choices. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDisplaced Things\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003edisplacement emerges as fundamental to understanding the lives of things and their relationships with human beings, and the places, however defined, that they make and pass within. The book will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, anthropology, culture and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSandra H. Dudley\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Museum Anthropology and Head of the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her research is focused in Southeast Asia and South Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, India) and the UK. She is author of \u003ci\u003eMaterialising Exile \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), editor of \u003ci\u003eMuseum Materialities \u003c\/i\u003e(2010) and \u003ci\u003eMuseum Objects \u003c\/i\u003e(2012), and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eTextiles from Burma \u003c\/i\u003e(2003), \u003ci\u003eThe Thing about Museums \u003c\/i\u003e(2011) and \u003ci\u003eNarrating Objects, Collecting Stories \u003c\/i\u003e(2012). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 02, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755829362976,"sku":"9780415840477","price":93.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/20f77c48dbb35751d2b6848ab8af7e0a.webp?v=1780069122","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/displaced-things-in-museums-and-beyond-loss-liminality-and-hopeful-encounters-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}