Unpacking the Collection

1. Networks, Agents and Objects: Frameworks for Unpacking Museum Collections
Sarah Byrne, Anne Clarke, Rodney Harrison, Robin Torrence

2. “Suitable for Decoration of Halls and Billiard Rooms”: Finding Indigenous Agency in Historic Auction and Sale Catalogues
Robin Torrence, Anne Clarke

3. Consuming Colonialism: Curio Dealers’ Catalogues, Souvenir Objects and Indigenous Agency in Oceania
Rodney Harrison

4. Plumes, Pipes and Valuables: The Papuan Artefact-Trade in Southwest New Guinea, 1845–1888
Susan M. Davies

5. Donors, Loaners, Dealers and Swappers: The Relationship behind the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Chris Wingfield

6. The Bekom Mask and the White Star: The Fate of Others’ Objects at the Musée du quai Branly, Paris
Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine

7. Agency, Prestige and Politics: Dutch Collecting Abroad and Local Responses
Pieter ter Keurs

8. Crafting Hopi Identities at the Museum of Northern Arizona
Kelley Hays-Gilpin

9. Pathways to Knowledge: Research, Agency and Power Relations in the Context of Collaborations Between Museums and Source Communities
Lindy Allen, Louise Hamby

10. ‘Objects as Ambassadors’: Representing Nation Through Museum Exhibitions
Chantal Knowles

11. Seats of Power and Iconographies of Identity in Ecuador
Colin McEwan, Maria-Isabel Silva

12. Hedley Takes a Holiday: Collections from Kanak People in the Australian Museum
Jude Philp

13. Death, Memory and Collecting: Creating the Conditions for Ancestralisation in South London Households
Fiona Parrott

14. Trials and Traces: A. C. Haddon’s Agency as Museum Curator
Sarah Byrne

Keywords: Social Sciences, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, Sociology