{"title":"Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the (Ethnographic) MuseumBy Wayne Modest and Peter Pels (eds.), London: Routledge, 2025. 294 pp. ISBN: 978-1-35-010314-6. $200.00 USD (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-00-308616-1. $52.69 USD (ebook)","authors":"Macarena Pérez Selman","doi":"10.1111/muan.70040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.70040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148065083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining the Pacific: Voces del Pacífico: Tradición e Innovación Exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid","authors":"Alba Ferrandiz-Gaudens","doi":"10.1111/muan.70039","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70039","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This is a review of the <i>Voces del Pacífico: Tradición e Innovación</i> (Islanders: the art of life in Oceania) exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid (Spain), commissioned by the institution to the British Museum and curated by the British Museum's Oceania Curator Julie Adams.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148045505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage-Making in Nineteenth-Century Chile","authors":"Hugo Rueda Ramírez","doi":"10.1111/muan.70036","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70036","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth-century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation-state foundational figures have been sacralized through museological practices that closely mirror religious ritual. These relics, whether body parts, material traces, or personal belongings, function not merely as historical artifacts but as <i>secular sacra</i>: vestiges imbued with sacred national significance. The article introduces the concept of the logic of the relic to map the transformation of ordinary items into vehicles of collective memory and patriotic belief. Tracing this logic from the nineteenth century to the present, it reveals the dual role of museum practices as both secular repositories and ritual media. By challenging triumphalist narratives and questioning conventional claims about the historical value of certain materials, this study contributes to interdisciplinary debates on the role of material culture and museums in postcolonial nation-building contexts, as well as to debates on museums as sites of secular belief rather than mere representation.</p>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/muan.70036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147568499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Siberia. Voices From the North","authors":"Magdalena Zych","doi":"10.1111/muan.70037","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70037","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The temporary exhibition called <i>Siberia. Voices from the North</i> at the Ethnographic Museum in Kraków sought to explore connections between people and their living contexts at different times and in different spaces through collected objects now kept in museum storage. Objects originating from various Siberian cultures were all brought to this southern Polish city during the late 19th century by a variety of people. Leading up to the exhibit, extensive field research conducted in 2016–2019 produced valuable knowledge and an inexhaustible trove of stories. These stories brought some of the once “silent” museum objects into a sort of new life.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147566998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward De-Centering Siberian Museum Anthropology","authors":"Dmitry Arzyutov, Igor Krupnik, Veronika Trotter","doi":"10.1111/muan.70035","DOIUrl":"10.1111/muan.70035","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This special issue invites anthropologists, museum curators, scholars in Indigenous studies, Indigenous heritage specialists, and historians of knowledge to reimagine the global geography of Siberian museum collections. These collections have often been overshadowed by the perceived dominance of Russian museum holdings—particularly those housed in major institutions in Saint Petersburg, such as the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) and the Russian Ethnographic Museum. Drawing on extensive archival and field research, as well as theoretical perspectives from diverse intellectual traditions, the contributors critically re-examine the vast ethnographic collections from Siberia held in museums across the West, primarily in Europe and North America. They argue that these collections have long remained disconnected from their source communities and, paradoxically, position Western museums as “provincial” and yet highly relevant to emerging processes of knowledge (co-)production. By framing the case studies featured in this special issue within a broader theoretical context, the editors employ the concept of de-centering to uncover a reimagined geography of museum collections—one that repositions local holdings, Western institutions, and major Russian repositories within a wider, globally integrated landscape of knowledge production.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":43404,"journal":{"name":"Museum Anthropology","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2026-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147320839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}