Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology [Paperback]

Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology shifts museum anthropologys relationship to the broader field from marginal to central by revealing the sophisticated transdisciplinary praxis (theory + practice) at the heart of current museum anthropologies

Preface

1 Introduction

?Christina J. Hodge and Christina Kreps

Part I Introduction Pragmatics of Documentation

2 The Role of Indigenous Archives and Their Pragmatic Imaginings in the New Museum Anthropology

Diana E. Marsh

3 The Pragmatics of Decolonizing Metadata: Praxes of 3D Digitization

Christina J. Hodge

4 Alternative Voices and Images of Ecotourism from La Ventanilla, Mexico: Reflections on a Neopragmatist-inspired Approach to Participatory Action Museography

W. Warner Wood

Part II Introduction Pragmatics of Restitution

5 Museum Anthropology in an Age of Reconciliation

Cara Krmpotich

6 A Pragmatic Approach to Reconciliation: Thoughts on Transforming Repatriation Practice

Margaret M. Bruchac

7 Unearthing Colonial Complicities in Maasai Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, Laura N. K. Van Broekhoven

8 Like a Bridge over Troubled Water?: Fieldwork, Publicly-engaged Scholarship, and Trafficked Indonesian Mortuary Materials

Kathleen M. Adams

Part III Introduction Pragmatics of Counter-narrative

9 Missionaries, Anthropologists, Museums: Instrumentalism and Lessons for Progressive Museology