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Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology shifts museum anthropology’s relationship to the broader field from marginal to central by revealing the sophisticated transdisciplinary praxis (theory + practice) at the heart of current museum anthropologies. The book features international case studies that operate at the interfaces of critical museology, anthropology, material culture studies, art practice, and more. The theory of pragmatics proposes that meaning-making is collaborative and best evaluated through its impact in the world. Collectively the chapters in this volume evidence a ‘pragmatic imagination’ at work as museum anthropology practitioners ingeniously combine inventiveness (the possible) and practicality (the actual) in ways that drive the field forward. Defining museum anthropology as a pragmatic practice explicitly theorizes this work in order to mark its significance; demystify its processes of knowledge production; connect it more readily to debates within and beyond anthropology; and facilitate critique.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-30
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt540 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums
Antal sidor276
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780367641856

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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