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1. Displaced Things

   By Sandra H. Dudley

   Displaced Things explores the movements of material things from one setting to another. Its analysis examines how the qualities of objects, and the meanings and values with which they are attributed, change as they are repeatedly re-contextualised. The volume argues that our understanding of the...

   To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
2. Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

   Edited by Sandra H. Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

   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,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
3. Museum Objects

   Experiencing the Properties of Things

   Edited by Sandra H. Dudley

   Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

   Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge