significance of narrative structure
Conclusions
Note
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17. THE LIQUID MUSEUM: New Institutional Ontologies for a Complex, Uncertain World
Dynamical forces and the liquid museum
Temporal reframing
Uncertainty
Complexity and nonlinearity
The transnationalizing effects of climate change andglobalization
Reworking the human and the social: Nature cultures
Becoming liquid
Museums as complex adaptive systems
The liquid museum: A strategic simplification
Museums as assemblage convertors
Conclusion
Note
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13 PART III: Theory from Practice/Practicing Theory 18. THE DISPLACED LOCAL: Multiple Agency in the Building of Museums’ Ethnographic Collections A brief revisionist perspective on the building of ethnographic collections Reflecting back from Australia Making Yolngu collections Collections as distributed memory A favorable conjunction of interests Reflecting back Baldwin Spencer Alfred Haddon The producers’ perspective Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References 19. THE WORLD AS COLLECTED; OR, MUSEUM COLLECTIONS AS SITUATED MATERIALITIES Zombies of anatomy The other way around Collections as situated materialities Strategic omissions, hidden associations The nation collected Bodies of us and them as collected Old and new worlds collected, or strategic resituatings Acknowledgments References 20. AMBIENT AESTHETICS: Altered Subjectivities in the New Museum Cultures of distraction The new museum The Australian Centre for the Moving Image as “new” The Screen Gallery Ambient space Play and pedagogy Conclusion References 21. MUSEUM ENCOUNTERS AND NARRATIVE ENGAGEMENTS Background: Museums, visitors, and meanings Theoretical framework: Interpretive engagements as narrative meanings Translating theory into methodology: Narrative interviews at Te Papa Narrative engagements and cross–cultural meanings Conclusion Notes References 22. THEORIZING MUSEUM AND HERITAGE VISITING Heritage as a performance Museums and the three Ls: Learning and lifelong learning Methodology Commemorating and learning a forgotten history: The 1807 bicentenary of the British abolition of the slave trade Reinforcing and confirming: Museums and the performance of self Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes References 23. THE MUSEUM IN HIDING: Framing Conflict Lyndell Brown and Charles Green Amelia Barikin References 24. PRESERVING/SHAPING/CREATING: Museums and Public Memory in a Time of Loss Museums in contemporary life Preserving/shaping/creating
