Narrative objects museums, the Sakha summer festival, and cultural revival in Siberia / Tatiana Argounova-Low, Alison K. Brown.
| Author/creator | Argounova-Low, Tatiana |
| Other author | Brown, Alison K. (Alison Kay), 1971 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Museums, the Sakha summer festival, and cultural revival in Siberia |
| Series | Anthropological studies in creativity and perception |
| Partial contents | Places and history -- Exhibition narratives -- Craftsmanship and creativity. |
| Abstract | "Narrative Objects is concerned with the conversations that arise when artists, scholars and museum practitioners come together with historic objects. Its focus is a unique mammoth ivory model of yhyakh - the annual celebration of the Sakha people in the Russian Far East - which has been in the collection of the British Museum since 1867. Almost 150 years later the model was loaned to the National Museum of the Arts of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) for exhibition and public engagement. As Sakha people revisit past histories and reconstitute cultural knowledge following decades of Soviet rule, this book considers narratives generated by the return of the model which speak to wider concerns in anthropology, material culture studies and history about how knowledge is both suppressed and engaged with. The book also explores how art can be a focus for cultural pride, how skilled practices are entwined with oral histories, and how historic objects can contribute to wider processes of cultural revival. The chapters draw on fieldwork, museum and archival research in Sakha (Yakutia), Paris and London. Narrative Objects is particularly relevant to scholars of anthropology and museum studies as well those with an interest in the subarctic and post-Soviet states"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025020708 |
| ISBN | 9781138315334 hbk |
| ISBN | 9781041077626 pbk |
| ISBN | ebk |