1st Edition
Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters
Prologue
Part I Departures
Chapter 1 Displaced things
Displacement anthropology
Perspectives of things
Optimistic things
Chapter 2 Separating things
Separations
Stages
Pathways
Part II Liminal things
Chapter 3 Representational things
Thresholds
Hesitations
Representation
Loss
Chapter 4 Subjunctive things
Suffering
Habit
Longing
Communitas
Part III Reincorporations
Chapter 5 Hopeful things
Potent things
Displacement reversals
Familiar strange
Bibliography
Biography
Sandra H. Dudley is Professor of Museum Anthropology and Head of the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her research is focused in Southeast Asia and South Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, India) and the UK. She is author of Materialising Exile (2010), editor of Museum Materialities (2010) and Museum Objects (2012), and co-editor of Textiles from Burma (2003), The Thing about Museums (2011) and Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories (2012).
