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

by Howard Morphy

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections.

Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the value material objects have to different 'local'...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138565598
• ISBN13: 9781138565593
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 126 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"