1st Edition
Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology
Preface
1 Introduction
Christina J. Hodge and Christina Kreps
Part I Introduction Pragmatics of Documentation
2 The Role of Indigenous Archives and Their Pragmatic Imaginings in the New Museum Anthropology
Diana E. Marsh
3 The Pragmatics of Decolonizing Metadata: Praxes of 3D Digitization
Christina J. Hodge
4 Alternative Voices and Images of Ecotourism from La Ventanilla, Mexico: Reflections on a Neopragmatist-inspired Approach to Participatory Action Museography
W. Warner Wood
Part II Introduction Pragmatics of Restitution
5 Museum Anthropology in an Age of Reconciliation
Cara Krmpotich
6 A Pragmatic Approach to Reconciliation: Thoughts on Transforming Repatriation Practice
Margaret M. Bruchac
7 Unearthing Colonial Complicities in Maasai Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, Laura N. K. Van Broekhoven
8 Like a Bridge over Troubled Water?: Fieldwork, Publicly-engaged Scholarship, and Trafficked Indonesian Mortuary Materials
Kathleen M. Adams
Part III Introduction Pragmatics of Counter-narrative
9 Missionaries, Anthropologists, Museums: Instrumentalism and Lessons for Progressive Museology
Christina Kreps
10 European Museum Collections and Knowledge Co-production: Developing a Praxis
Giovanna Vitelli
11 Teaching Museum Curation and Cultural Equity by Design, Amanda J. Guzmán
Carolyn Smith, and Rosemary A. Joyce
12 Artistic Explorations of Place: Creative Pragmatism, Anthropology, and University Museums
Esteban M. Gómez and Bonnie J. Clark
Biography
Christina J. Hodge is Associate Director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
Christina Kreps is Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Museum of Anthropology and Museum and Heritage Studies at the University of Denver in Colorado.
