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Museums, Heritage and Digital Curation
Theory and Practice at the Allard Pierson
2022 || Paperback || Wim Hupperetz || Sidestone Press
Heritage institutions face major changes in the areas of digitisation, narrative, inclusivity, and participation. In this groundbreaking book Wim Hupperetz, an expert in the field of museums, heritage and digital curation, reflects on the challenge of change. How does a museum move from an object or a collection to storytelling, and what is the impact of digitisation on curatorship? How to assess the biography of a collection when you think of museums as a medium of memory? And in striving to...
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The Urge to Collect
Motives, Obsessions and Tensions
2023 || Hardcover || Holly O’Farrell e.a. || Sidestone Press
Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an illustration of a strong human-thing entanglement. It can be caused by psychological incentives that are deeply rooted in human doubts and anxieties. It is also related to building a pleasant, unthreatening, and even paradisical, environment to compensate for the uncertainties of everyday life.
The chapters in this book range from psychological per...
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The Urge to Collect
Motives, Obsessions and Tensions
2023 || Paperback || Holly O’Farrell e.a. || Sidestone Press
Why do we collect? Where does the urge to collect come from? This book explores the phenomenon of collecting in various contexts. Collecting is an illustration of a strong human-thing entanglement. It can be caused by psychological incentives that are deeply rooted in human doubts and anxieties. It is also related to building a pleasant, unthreatening, and even paradisical, environment to compensate for the uncertainties of everyday life.
The chapters in this book range from psychological per...
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Creating authenticity / druk 1
authentication processes in ethnographic museums
2013 || Paperback || Laura van Broekhoven e.a. || Sidestone Press
'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering ethnographers attempted to lay bare the essences of cultures through collecting and studying objects from distant communities. Comparably, historical archaeology departed from the idea that cultures were discr...
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Pieces of a Nation
South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections
2021 || Paperback || Zoe Cormack e.a. || Sidestone Press
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally important resources. However, the long-term effects of colonialism and conflict had largely precluded any concerted attempts to preserve material culture within the country; museums remained in Khartoum, the capital of the formally united Sudan. Fu...
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Pieces of a Nation
South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections
2021 || Hardcover || Zoe Cormack e.a. || Sidestone Press
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally important resources. However, the long-term effects of colonialism and conflict had largely precluded any concerted attempts to preserve material culture within the country; museums remained in Khartoum, the capital of the formally united Sudan. Fu...
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Museums, Heritage and Digital Curation
Theory and Practice at the Allard Pierson
2022 || Hardcover || Wim Hupperetz || Sidestone Press
Heritage institutions face major changes in the areas of digitisation, narrative, inclusivity, and participation. In this groundbreaking book Wim Hupperetz, an expert in the field of museums, heritage and digital curation, reflects on the challenge of change. How does a museum move from an object or a collection to storytelling, and what is the impact of digitisation on curatorship? How to assess the biography of a collection when you think of museums as a medium of memory? And in striving to...