Rowlands, Michael and Stanley, Nick and Were, Graeme (Eds).
(2025)
Reframing the ethnographic museum: histories, politics and futures.
[Book].
UCL Press
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Abstract
Since the later part of the twentieth century, ethnographic museums have come under increasing scrutiny, and many have reflected on and changed their presentation as they questioned collections so often made by colonial officials and explorers. Now is a good time to explore whether new developments in display and cultural politics provide a viable future for ethnographic museums. In particular, policies for restitution by colonial era institutions create a changed landscape for ethnographic display both in the countries from which they originate and in former colonising states. Reframing the Ethnographic Museum presents a wide range of cultural settings across the world where ethnographic displays have appeared in their local circumstances. Non-European museum strategies raise new problems but also new solutions. Nationalism has been especially significant in museology in Asia, and in Africa new museum objectives have emerged. They share a problematic future in a digital age when the aura of artefacts is challenged by digital repositories and a public less willing to travel to visit original objects. Authors in this book grapple with the new complexities facing them as curators in the contemporary world.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reframing the ethnographic museum: histories, politics and futures |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800085862 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800085862 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085862 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Collection © Editors, 2025 Text © Contributors, 2025 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2025 Any third-party material in this book is not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence. Details of the copyright ownership and permitted use of third-party material is given in the image (or extract) credit lines. Every effort has been made to identify and contact copyright holders and any omission or error will be corrected if notification is made to the publisher. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright owner. This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non-commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Rowlands, M., Stanley, N. and Were, G. (eds). 2025. Reframing the Ethnographic Museum: Histories, politics and futures. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800085862 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | decolonisation in museums, digital collections, ethnographic display, Indigenous curation, natural history |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204392 |
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