Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology

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.

• Preface1 IntroductionChristina J. Hodge and Christina KrepsPart I Introduction Pragmatics of Documentation2 The Role of Indigenous Archives and Their Pragmatic Imaginings in the New Museum AnthropologyDiana E. Marsh3 The Pragmatics of Decolonizing Metadata: Praxes of 3D DigitizationChristina J. Hodge4 Alternative Voices and Images of Ecotourism from La Ventanilla, Mexico: Reflections on a Neopragmatist-inspired Approach to Participatory Action MuseographyW. Warner WoodPart II Introduction Pragmatics of Restitution5 Museum Anthropology in an Age of ReconciliationCara Krmpotich6 A Pragmatic Approach to Reconciliation: Thoughts on Transforming Repatriation PracticeMargaret M. Bruchac7 Unearthing Colonial Complicities in Maasai Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, Laura N. K. Van Broekhoven8 Like a Bridge over Troubled Water?: Fieldwork, Publicly-engaged Scholarship, and Trafficked Indonesian Mortuary MaterialsKathleen M. AdamsPart III Introduction Pragmatics of Counter-narrative9 Missionaries, Anthropologists, Museums: Instrumentalism and Lessons for Progressive MuseologyChristina Kreps10 European Museum Collections and Knowledge Co-production: Developing a PraxisGiovanna Vitelli11 Teaching Museum Curation and Cultural Equity by Design, Amanda J. GuzmánCarolyn Smith, and Rosemary A. Joyce12 Artistic Explorations of Place: Creative Pragmatism, Anthropology, and University MuseumsEsteban M. Gómez and Bonnie J. Clark