Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge-Cavendish, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sunnucks, Laura Osorio
• Cooper, Jago

Description

lxx, 376 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

"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"--

Alternative Title

• Trazando un museo nuevo
• Politics and practice of Latin American research with the British Museum

Subject

• Santo Domingo Centre of Excellence for Latin American Research
• British Museum > Ethnological collections
• Collectors and collecting > Latin America
• Material culture > Social aspects > Latin America
• Antiquities > Research
• Museums and community
• Museums > Political aspects
• Museums > Social aspects
• Latin America > Antiquities > Social aspects
• Great Britain
• Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

• Text in English and Spanish.

Call Number

JFE 22-1329

ISBN

• 9780367754969
• 0367754967
• 9780367754983
• 0367754983

LCCN

2021043759

OCLC

1263797703

Title

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.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge-Cavendish, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

Text in English and Spanish.

Added Author

Sunnucks, Laura Osorio, editor.

Cooper, Jago, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Mapping a new museum London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021 9781003162704 (DLC) 2021043760

Research Call Number

JFE 22-1329