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Materialising Exile

Material Culture and Embodied Experience Among Karenni Refugees in Thailand

By: Sandra H. Dudley

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Materialising Exile

Material Culture and Embodied Experience Among Karenni Refugees in Thailand

By: Sandra H. Dudley

Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the Thai-Burma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity among refugees, providing new and important ways of understanding how refugees make sense of experience, self, and other. It examines how and to what ends refugees perceive, represent, manipulate, use as metaphor, and otherwise engage with material objects and spaces, and includes a focus on the real and metaphorical journeys that bring about and perpetuate exile. The combined emphasis on both displacement and materiality, and the analysis of the cultural construction and intersections of exilic objects, spaces, and bodies, are unique in the study of both refugees and material culture. Drawing theoretical influences from phenomenology, aesthetics, and beyond, as well as from refugee studies and anthropology, the author addresses the current lack of theoretical analysis of the material, visual, spatial, and embodied aspects of forced migration, providing a fundamentally interlinked analysis of enforced exile and materiality.

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Berghahn Books

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1845456408

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Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond

Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters

By: Sandra H. Dudley

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Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond

Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters

By: Sandra H. Dudley

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond looks anew at the lives, effects and possibilities of things. Starting from the perspectives of things themselves, it outlines a particular, displacement approach to the museum, anthropology and material culture. The book explores the ways in which the objects are experienced in their present, displaced settings, and the implications and potentialities they carry. It offers insights into matters of difference and the hope that may be offered by transformative encounters between persons and things. Drawing on anthropological studies of ritual to conceptualise and examine displacement and its implications and possibilities, Dudley develops her arguments through exploration of displaced objects now in museums and dislocated or exiled from their prior geographical, historical, cultural, intellectual and personal contexts. The book’s approach and conclusions are relevant far beyond the museum, showing that even in the most difficult of circumstances there is agency, distinction and dignity in the choices and impacts that are made, and that things and places as well as people have efficacy and potency in those choices. In Displaced Things, displacement emerges as fundamental to understanding the lives of things and their relationships with human beings, and the places, however defined, that they make and pass within. The book will be essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of museums, heritage, anthropology, culture and history.

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Routledge

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1317392361

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Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond

Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters

By: Sandra H. Dudley

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Loss, Liminality and Hopeful Encounters

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131739237X

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Materialising Exile

Materialising Exile

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond

Displaced Things in Museums and Beyond

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