Mapping a new museum = Trazando un museo nuevo : politics and practice of Latin American research with the British Museum = politicas y prácticas de investigación en Latinoamérica con el Museo Británico / edited by Laura Osorio Sunnucks and Jago Cooper ; translated by María Miranda.
Format
Book
Language
English
Spanish
Published/Created
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge-Cavendish, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
"Mapping a New Museum seeks to rethink the museum's role in today's politically conscious world. Presenting a selection of innovative projects that have taken place in Latin America over the last year, the book begins to map out possibilities for the future of the global museum. The projects featured within the pages of this book were all supported by The Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research (SDCELAR) at the British Museum (BM), with the aim of making the BM's Latin American collections meaningful to communities in the region and others worldwide. These projects illustrate how communities manage cultural heritage and, taken together, they suggest that there is also no all-encompassing counter-narrative that can be used to "decolonise" museums. Reflecting on, and experimenting with, the ways that research happens within museum collections, the interdisciplinary collaborations described within these pages have used collections to tell stories that destabilise societal assumptions, whilst also proactively seeking out that which has historically been overlooked. The result is, the book argues, a research environment that challenges intellectual orthodoxy and values critical and alternative forms of knowledge. Mapping a New Museum contains English and Spanish versions of every chapter, which enables the book to put critical stress on the self-referentiality of Anglophone literature in the field of museum anthropology. The book will be essential reading for students, scholars and museum practitioners working around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
Text in English and Spanish.
Other title(s)
Politics and practice of Latin American research with the British Museum
ISBN
9780367754969 (hardcover)
0367754967 (hardcover)
9780367754983 (paperback)
0367754983 (paperback)
LCCN
2021043759
OCLC
1263797703
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