Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Case Studies
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Suitcases, Selfies, and the Global Environment
- Part I Scholarly Genealogies
- Part II Relevant Pasts
- 4 Disciplinary Complicity: The University, Material Culture Studies, and Global Environmental Crisis
- 5 Social Justice
- 6 Engagement and the Politics of Authority
- 7 War and Violence
- 8 Material Culture and Heritage
- 9 Material Culture and the Politics and Profession of Preservation and Representation
- 10 Reenacting the Past
- 11 Indigenous Heritage
- Part III Engaging Across Cultures and Around the Globe
- Part IV Cultural Production and Reproduction
- Part V Experience
- Part VI Materiality and the Digital World
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Engagement and the Politics of Authority
from Part II - Relevant Pasts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Case Studies
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Suitcases, Selfies, and the Global Environment
- Part I Scholarly Genealogies
- Part II Relevant Pasts
- 4 Disciplinary Complicity: The University, Material Culture Studies, and Global Environmental Crisis
- 5 Social Justice
- 6 Engagement and the Politics of Authority
- 7 War and Violence
- 8 Material Culture and Heritage
- 9 Material Culture and the Politics and Profession of Preservation and Representation
- 10 Reenacting the Past
- 11 Indigenous Heritage
- Part III Engaging Across Cultures and Around the Globe
- Part IV Cultural Production and Reproduction
- Part V Experience
- Part VI Materiality and the Digital World
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter on engagement and authority explores the role of material culture in negotiations of power, in gifting, as regulatory tools, and as modes or tools of empowerment and connection or conversely, dispossession and exclusion. The chapter is inspired and informed by the author’s work on heritage projects in South America.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies , pp. 128 - 145Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022