Photo-Museology: The Presence of Absence and the Absence of Presence

by Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas

Book Overview

Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of 'world cultures', appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are committed to dialogue and collaboration with the peoples from whom collections were made. But their vast assemblages of artifacts, removed from countries of origin primarily during the colonial period, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9088906327
• ISBN13: 9789088906329
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Sidestone Press
• Length: 474 Pages
• Weight: 2.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.1" x 10.1"