digital tools—be they local databases or public-facing websites—around Indigenous cultural ontologies and epistemologies, so the structural principles of organization and access to digital “objects” and their metadata are drawn from and support Native ways
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Reassembling The Social Organization
Collaboration and Digital Media in (Re)making Boas’s 1897 Book
Aaron Glass, Judith Berman, and Rainer Hatoum
Editorial
Sandra H. Dudley and Conal McCarthy
ontological dichotomies underpinning repatriation but also brings to the fore the multiple performative and symbolic aspects of the processes at work. It also enables a more complex and nuanced approach to coproduction, cultural hybridity, and, particularly
Introduction
Engaging Anthropological Legacies toward Cosmo-optimistic Futures?
Sharon Macdonald, Henrietta Lidchi, and Margareta von Oswald
which diverse native ontologies form the ordering principles for the displays ( Kramer 2015 ; Phillips 2011 ; Shelton 2006 , 2007 ). Cara Krmpotich and Laura Peers (2014) also provide an admirable example of long-term engagement over many years
Introduction
Human–Animal Relationships in the Middle East
Marjan Mashkour and Anahita Grisoni
diversity of local ‘material cultures’ ( Warnier 1999 ), regarding details in domestication, breeding, training or exploitation practices. Those ‘material cultures’ and representations can be considered part of a specific Middle Eastern ‘nature ontology
Book Reviews
Alan Crookham, Nina Finigan, Elizabeth Plumridge, and Michelle Horwood
that resulted in the collections described in this book, resonated strongly with me. Using scholarship and observation they depict ontologies and value systems of people distant in space from the storerooms of the MAA. Although the objects, as they
Sharing Knowledge as a Step toward an Epistemological Pluralization of the Museum
Andrea Scholz
processes are specifically important to consider in the case of “Sharing Knowledge.” First, the role of objects in Amazonian native societies is not fully understandable from a supposedly universal point of view. Many of these “objects” have the ontological
Meetings Reports and Project Reports
Julie Gough, Jonathan Jones, Kelli Cole, Shari Lett, Glenn Iseger-Pilkington, Billie Lythberg, Jennifer Walklate, Jeanine Nault, Jake Homiak, Joshua A. Bell, and Natasha Barrett
environments), paired with collective ambition and real action to infuse non-Indigenous museums with the cultural vitality that emerges from our ontologies, might in fact be more powerful than actively decolonizing these spaces? Could it be that a focus on
Decolonizing Research, Cosmo-optimistic Collaboration?
Making Object Biographies
Margareta von Oswald and Verena Rodatus
communities and the different ontologies that inhabit the objects. It also raised questions of the consequences of holding such objects in museums—what potential do they hold? Figure 4 The research collaboration resulted in a four-channel video installation
Democratizing the Digital Collection
New Players and New Pedagogies in Three-Dimensional Cultural Heritage
Jane-Heloise Nancarrow
ontological poles, examining students on their ability to thoughtfully conceive of and respond to the idea of “copies.” The learning exercise was designed to teach students to explore the relationship between form and function—the second artifact, of course
Archaeology and Ethnographic Collections
Disentangling Provenance, Provenience, and Context in Vanuatu Assemblages
James L. Flexner
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