- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
-
1 The museum as method (revisited)1 -
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things -
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debates -
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich -
5 Curating across the colonial divides -
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary -
7 The times of the curator -
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia -
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums -
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? -
11 Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England -
12 ćəsnaɁəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver -
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Māori curatorship past and present -
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums -
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society -
16 Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia1 -
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting -
18 He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face-to-face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations -
19 Curating time -
20 Virtual museums and new directions? - Index
The museum as method (revisited)1
The museum as method (revisited)1
- Chapter:
- (p.19) 1 The museum as method (revisited)1
- Source:
- Curatopia
- Author(s):
Nicholas Thomas
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
This speculative comment considers the potential worth of raising questions that appear simple but may be rewardingly complex. It asks whether routine aspects of curatorial work, such as captioning objects and juxtaposing them in displays, may not have more suggestive dimensions than has been recognised previously. It asks what the implications of a conception of “the museum as method” might have for current approaches to public exhibition.
Keywords: Anthropology, Museum, Method, Curation, Exhibition
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- Title Pages
- List of figures
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Note on the text
- Introduction: conceptualising Curatopia
-
1 The museum as method (revisited)1 -
2 What not to collect? Post-connoisseurial dystopia and the profusion of things -
3 Concerning curatorial practice in ethnological museums: an epistemology of postcolonial debates -
4 Walking the fine line: From Samoa with Love? at the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich -
5 Curating across the colonial divides -
6 Thinking and working through difference: remaking the ethnographic museum in the global contemporary -
7 The times of the curator -
8 Baroque modernity, critique and Indigenous epistemologies in museum representations of the Andes and Amazonia -
9 Swings and roundabouts: pluralism and the politics of change in Canada’s national museums -
10 Community engagement, Indigenous heritage and the complex figure of the curator: foe, facilitator, friend or forsaken? -
11 Joining the club: a Tongan ‘akau in New England -
12 ćəsnaɁəm, the City before the City: exhibiting pre-Indigenous belonging in Vancouver -
13 The figure of the kaitiaki: learning from Māori curatorship past and present -
14 Curating the uncommons: taking care of difference in museums -
15 Collecting, curating and exhibiting cross-cultural material histories in a post-settler society -
16 Curating relations between ‘us’ and ‘them’: the changing role of migration museums in Australia1 -
17 Agency and authority: the politics of co-collecting -
18 He alo ā he alo / kanohi ki te kanohi / face-to-face: curatorial bodies, encounters and relations -
19 Curating time -
20 Virtual museums and new directions? - Index
