Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum

Necrography: Death-Writing in the Colonial Museum

When it comes to the study of artworks as material culture, there are few more familiar idioms than that of the “life-history” of the object. From Arjun Appadurai’s formulation of “the social life of things” (1986) to Bruno Latour’s business-school model of “actor-networks” (1993), over the past gen...

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Main Authors: Dan Hicks, Priya Basil, Haidy Geismar, Marlene Kadar, Emeka Ogboh, Fernando Domínguez Rubio, Clémentine Deliss, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Bonita Bennett, Ciraj Rassool, Ana Lucia Araujo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Yale University 2021-02-01
Series:British Art Studies
Subjects:
elgin marbles
cultural biography
museology
necrography
anti-colonialism
british museum
Online Access:http://britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-19/death-writing-in-the-colonial-museums

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