Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums / edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Extreme Collecting; Extreme Collecting Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums; Contents; List of Figures; Extreme Collecting Dealing with Difficult Objects; Part I Difficult Objects; 1 The Material Culture of Persecution; 2 Lyricism and Offence in Egyptian Archaeology Collections; 3 Contested Human Remains; 4 Extreme or Commonplace; 5 Unfit for Society?; Part II Mass Produced; 6 Knowing the New; 7 The Global Scope of Extreme Collecting; 8 Awkward Objects; 9 Great Expectations and Modest Transactions; Part III Extreme Matters.

10 Extremes of Collecting at the Imperial War Museum 1917-200911 Plastics -- Why Not?; 12 Time Capsules as Extreme Collecting; 13 Canning Cans -- a Brand New Way of Looking at History; Notes on Contributors; Index.

By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting 'difficult' objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. The aim is to apply a critical approach to the rigidity of museums in maintaining essentially nineteenth-century ideas of collecting; and to move towards identifying priorities for.

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