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Contested Holdings: Museum Collections in Political, Epistemic and Artistic Processes of Return [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 306 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Sari: Museums and Collections
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2022
  • Kirjastus: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 1800734239
  • ISBN-13: 9781800734234
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 306 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm
  • Sari: Museums and Collections
  • Ilmumisaeg: 14-Feb-2022
  • Kirjastus: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 1800734239
  • ISBN-13: 9781800734234
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"Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Coveringa range of case studies and a global geography, authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world"--

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.

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Contested Holdings makes a refreshing and invaluable contribution to the rolling discussions surrounding restitution and reparations. The editors have successively produced a comprehensive and invaluable resource a volume anchored to the sturdy groundwork of the contributors meticulous and exhaustive research. The International Handbooks of Museum Studies





This is a timely book that tackles controversial, pressing issues from a range of angles in an innovatove way. The editors and authors indeed manage to reach beyond the currently predominant focus on provenance research, restitution and repatriation by foregrounding actors and challenges as well as political and epistemic aspects of appropriation and return. Annette Loeseke, Bard College, Berlin

List of Illustrations
vii
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1(22)
Felicity Bodenstein
Damiana Ofoiu
Part I From Objects Back to People: Ways of Life and Loss
Chapter 1 The Value of Art - a Human Life? Works of Art in the Crosshairs of the Persecution of Jews under National Socialism
23(21)
Ulrike Saf
Chapter 2 Return as Reconstruction: The Gwozdziec Synagogue Replica in the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
44(21)
Ewa Manikowska
Chapter 3 The Other Nefertiti: Symbolic Restitutions
65(16)
Ruth E. Iskin
Part II The Subject of Return: Between Artefacts and Bodies
Chapter 4 Blurring Objects: Life Casts, Human Remains and Art History
81(15)
Noemie Etienne
Chapter 5 Of Phrenology, Reconciliation and Veneration: Exhibiting the Repatriated Life Cast of Maori Chief Takatahara at the Akaroa Museum
96(21)
Christopher Sommer
Chapter 6 Ancestors or Artefacts: Contention in the Definition, Retention and Return of Ngarrindjeri Old People
117(22)
Cressida Fforde
Major Sumner
Loretta Sumner
Tristram Besterman
Steve Hemming
Part III `The Making of Law': Politics and Museum Ethics
Chapter 7 A Long-Term Perspective on the Issue of the Return of Congolese Cultural Objects: Entangled Relations between Kinshasa and Tervuren (1930-80)
139(24)
Placide Mumbembele Sanger
Chapter 8 `How Would You Like to See Your Great-Grandfather in a Museum?' The Issue of `Human Dignity' in Repatriation Processes (Cases Involving French Museums)
163(12)
Cristina Golomoz
Chapter 9 (De)Museifying Collections of Physical Anthropology: The Display and/or the Restitution of Human Remains of Indigenous Peoples from Southern Africa
175(22)
Damiana Ofoiu
Part IV Partial and Paused Returns
Chapter 10 Baroque Returns: The Donations and Reuses of Francesco Gualdi
197(23)
Fabrizio Federici
Chapter 11 Getting the Benin Bronzes Back to Nigeria: The Art Market and the Formation of National Collections and Concepts of Heritage in Benin City and Lagos
220(22)
Felicity Bodenstein
Chapter 12 What Future for Looted Syrian Antiquities? The Clash between the Law and Practice for the Repatriation of Cultural Property to Countries in Crisis
242(24)
Erin Thompson
Conclusion. Unfinished Projects of `Decentring' Western Museum Practices 266(19)
Felicity Bodenstein
Damiana Ofoiu
Eva-Maria Troelenberg
Index 285
Felicity Bodenstein is a lecturer in the history of museums and heritage studies at Sorbonne University, Paris. She is also a principal investigator of the digital humanities project, financed by the Ernest von Siemens foundation, Digital Benin (https://digital-benin.org/) that will bring together data from close to 200 museums holding pieces from the 1897 British colonial expedition to Benin in their collections.