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Toxic Heritage
Toxic Heritage addresses the heritage value of contamination and toxic sites and provides the first in-depth examination of toxic heritage as a global issue. Bringing together case studies, visual essays, and substantive chapters written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume provides a critical framing of the globally expanding field of toxic heritage. Authors from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and methodologies examine toxic heritage as both a material phenomenon and a concept. Organized into five thematic sections, the book explores the meaning and significance of toxic heritage, politics, narratives, affected communities, and activist approaches and interventions....
Changing Views of Textile Conservation
"Recognizing conservation as a dynamic social force, the eighty-one readings in this volume draw attention to the cultural significance of textiles and dress, illustrating the intellectual foundations as well as important changes in conservation practice." -- Back cover.
Corpse Encounters
This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, through both the stories that we tell and physical manifestations following the end of life, we expose the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization. This book creates a space for ritualized practices surrounding death: corpse disposal; corpse aest...
Working with and for Ancestors
Working with and for Ancestors examines collaborative partnerships that have developed around the study and care of Indigenous ancestral human remains. In the interest of reconciliation, museums and research institutions around the world have begun to actively seek input and direction from Indigenous descendants in establishing collections care and research policies. However, true collaboration is difficult, time-consuming, and sometimes awkward. By presenting examples of projects involving ancestral remains that are successfully engaged in collaboration, the book provides encouragement for scientists and descendant communities alike to have open and respectful discussions around the researc...
Handheld XRF for Art and Archaeology
This volume focuses specifically on the applications, possibilities, and limitations of handheld X-ray fluorescence devices in art conservation and archaeology.
The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage, and Death
This book provides a comprehensive examination of death, dying, and human remains in museums and heritage sites around the world. Presenting a diverse range of contributions from scholars, practitioners, and artists, the book reminds us that death and the dead body are omnipresent in museum and heritage spaces. Chapters appraise collection practices and their historical context, present global perspectives and potential resolutions, and suggest how death and dying should be presented to the public. Acknowledging that professionals in the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) fields are engaging in vital discussions about repatriation and anti-colonialist narratives, the book inc...
Preserving Aboriginal Heritage, Technical and Traditional Approaches
"In September 2007, the Canadian Conservation Institute hosted an international symposium Preserving Aboriginal Heritage: Technical and Traditional Approaches. The goal of the symposium was to provide an opportunity for Aboriginal people and conservation specialists to learn from one another -- in an atmosphere of mutual respect -- about traditional, technical, ethical, and intangible aspects of the conservation of Aboriginal material culture. This book of proceedings reflects the structure and objectives of the symposium, and provides useful and practical information on collaboration and the benefits of technical and traditional approaches. It contains the text of all papers in the language of presentation, an abstract for each paper in English and French, and the text of all posters in English and French. It will be useful for anyone involved in the preservation of Aboriginal heritage."--Pub. desc.
13th Triennial Meeting, Rio de Janiero, 22-27 September 2002
V. 1-2 reproduced on CD-ROM.
