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National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage-Making in Nineteenth-Century Chile 国家文物：19世纪智利的世俗神圣性、博物馆和遗产制作

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-03-24 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70036

Hugo Rueda Ramírez

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Siberia. Voices From the North 西伯利亚。来自北方的声音

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-03-18 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70037

Magdalena Zych

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Toward De-Centering Siberian Museum Anthropology 论西伯利亚博物馆人类学的去中心化

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-02-19 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70035

Dmitry Arzyutov, Igor Krupnik, Veronika Trotter

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Discuss, Debate, Delay: How Museums Filibuster the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 讨论、辩论、拖延：博物馆如何阻挠美国原住民坟墓保护和遣返法案

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70034

Audrey Briana Andrews, Tanner Scot Barney

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Reading Through Traces: Xaverian Strategies of Including Chinese Folk Deities’ Statues in Museum Displays and Fictions in Parma, Italy 透过痕迹阅读：意大利帕尔马博物馆陈列和小说中中国民间神灵雕像的泽维尔策略

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70033

Valentina Gamberi

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“Twice Removed”: Indigenous Siberian Ethnographic Collections in U.S. Museums “两次迁移”：美国博物馆的西伯利亚土著民族志收藏

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-02-02 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70032

Igor Krupnik

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Conflict, Calaveras, and Context: An Exhibition Event Review at the Met 冲突、卡拉维拉斯和背景：大都会博物馆展览事件回顾

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-22 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70031

Garrett Cessna

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Learning to Listen in the Museum: A Personal Reflection on Participation and Power 在博物馆学习聆听：对参与和权力的个人反思

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2026-01-14 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70030

Meggy Merlin Mokay, Hilma Pami Putri, Haya Haratikka

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Reaching for Ancestral Heritage: Sakha Collections in the Museums of the World 追寻祖先的遗产：世界博物馆中的萨哈收藏品

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-28 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70029

Tatiana Argounova-Low

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Sacred but Undocumented: Meeting the Challenges of Repatriating Poorly Documented Objects 神圣但未记录：迎接遣返记录不良的对象的挑战

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Museum Anthropology Pub Date : 2025-12-02 DOI: 10.1111/muan.70028

Jason M. Gibson, Michael Cawthorn, Iain Johnston

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