Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond: Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters - Paperback

by Sandra H. Dudley (Author)

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular approach - a displacement anthropology - to the museum, anthropology and material culture.

Author Biography

Sandra H. Dudley is Professor of Museum Anthropology and Head of the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. Her research is focused in Southeast Asia and South Asia (Myanmar, Thailand, India) and the UK. She is author of Materialising Exile (2010), editor of Museum Materialities (2010) and Museum Objects (2012), and co-editor of Textiles from Burma (2003), The Thing about Museums (2011) and Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories (2012).