Inbetweenness of Things

Paul Basu is Professor of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. The Inbetweenness of ThingsPaul Basu, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UKMuseums as Sites of Inbetweenness2. The Inbetweenness of the Vitrine: Three Parerga of a Feather Headdress Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Independent Artist/Curator, UK3. The Buzz of Displacement: Liminality amongst Burmese Court Objects in Oxford, London and YangonSandra H. Dudley, University of Leicester, UK4. Object and Spirit Agency: The G’psgolox Poles as Mediators within and between Colonized and Colonizer CulturesStacey R. Jessiman, Stanford University, USAMasquerades and Mediation5. At the Centre of Everything? A Nigerian Mask and Its HistoriesJohn Picton, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK6. Amòdu and the Material Manifestation of EégúnWill Rea, University of Leeds, UKSyncretism, Intercession and Iconoclash 7. Desire, Imitation and Ambiguity in Asmat SculptureNick Stanley, British Museum, UK8. Animating Relationships: Inca Conopa and Modern Illa as Meditating ObjectsBill Sillar, University College London, UK9. Visual Diplomacy: Art Circulation and Iconoclashes in the Kingdom of BamumSilvia Forni, Royal Ontario Museum, CanadaHybridity in Form and Function10. Mediating between Mayas and the Art Market: The Traditional-yet-Contemporary Carved Gourd VesselMary Katherine Scott, University of Wyoming, USA11. Queen Victoria’s Samoan BonnetCatherine Cummings, University of Exeter, USA12. The Indigenization of the Transcultural Teacup in Colonial CanadaMadeline Rose Knickerbocker, Simon Fraser University, Canada and Lisa Truong, Carleton University, CanadaBetween Image, Text and Object13. ‘Curious Statues so Cunningly Contrived’: Plato’s Silenus, Inwardness and InbetweennessLucy Razzall, Queen Mary, University of London, UK14, Coinage between Cultures: Mediating Power in Roman MacedoniaClare Rowan, University of Warwick, UKIndex

Provocative and absorbing, The Inbetweenness of Thingsprovides a diverse set of case studies of past and present things of our world. Taking movement or “inbetweenness” as its core analytic, Paul Basu and this volume’s contributors demonstrate how productive research on materiality can be. This volume is a vibrant addition to the interdisciplinary study of objects, and should be widely read.