1st Edition
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories
Edited By Sandra H. Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate
Copyright 2012
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Jennifer Binnie, Sandra Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate
“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
