
Museum Ethnographers Group
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| CfP: The Circulation of Museum Objects |
American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans,
November 17th- 21st, 2010
Panel organizer: Chris Wingfield, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford / University of Birmingham - chris.wingfield(at)prm.ox.ac.uk
Deadline for title and abstract: Friday 19th March.
When things become museum objects, they can appear to be removed from the world of normal circulation. The process of collecting ethnographic objects has been described in terms of detachment and excision (Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998). Storage technologies in museums such as locked doors, alarm systems and glass cases all serve to restrict the movement of museum objects. Museum labeling and documentation can attempt to define museum objects as an immoveable a...
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| About MEG... |
The Museum Ethnographers Group (MEG), formed in 1976,
is committed to the following aims -
- To encourage good practice in curatorship of all ethnographic collections
in the United Kingdom.
- To encourage and disseminate research on ethnographic collections
in the UK.
- To promote the exchange of information and resources, nationally,
internationally and locally.
- To maintain the profile of ethnography with respect to other groups
of museum professionals and in relation to other museum bodies more
broadly, such as the Museums Association and MLA.
- To educate the public through the use of ethnographic collections
and thereby to foster an awareness of their educational value.
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