Moving Objects: Reflections on Oceanic Collections

Jolly, Margaret

doi:10.22459/tio.04.2017.02

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“…This might occur for example in relationship to people who recognize the object as part of their cultural knowledge or through performance with it (Jolly 2011). The lack of dichotomy between subjects and objects, persons and things, has been extensively argued in Oceanic anthropology (Hau'ofa 2008;Jolly 2016;Strathern 1988). But are the faces on these objects meant to face the beholder?…”

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What Do Museum Objects Want? Re‐Thinking Photographic Conventions In Ethnographic Museums

Young

2022

Visual Anthropology Review

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This paper critiques the visual conventions applied to the photography of ethnographic museum collection objects. To “think photographically” in a museum collection, I draw a productive parallel between my fieldwork with Indigenous women artists in central Australia, and photography of poorly documented museum collection objects. I explore the presence of an intersubjective affective gaze in the central Australian Indigenous art works which is amplified through photography. This resistance inspired an experimental exhibition entailing photography of sculptural museum objects with faces. The exhibit's aim was to resocialize these objects into the present through photographs of them.

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What Do Museum Objects Want? Re‐Thinking Photographic Conventions In Ethnographic Museums

Young

2022

Visual Anthropology Review

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Patrimonialities

Hafstein

Skrydstrup

2020

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With empirical touchstones from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the authors argue that heritage and property represent different approaches to subject formation, produce distinct bodies of expertise, and belong to different rationalities of government in a global patrimonial field: that cultural property is a technology of sovereignty, part of the order of the modern liberal state, but cultural heritage a technology of reformation that cultivates responsible subjects and entangles them in networks of expertise and management. While particular case trajectories may shift back and forth from rights-based claims and resolutions under the sign of cultural property to ethical claims and solutions under the sign of cultural heritage, the authors contend that there is significant analytical purchase to be gained from their distinction. Using a critical, comparative approach, they make the case for a historically grounded and theoretically informed understanding of the difference between the two terms.

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Moving Objects: Reflections on Oceanic Collections

Cited by 2 publications

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What Do Museum Objects Want? Re‐Thinking Photographic Conventions In Ethnographic Museums

What Do Museum Objects Want? Re‐Thinking Photographic Conventions In Ethnographic Museums

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