Narrative Objects - Museums, the Sakha Summer Festival, and Cultural Revival in Siberia

Narrative Objects is concerned with the conversations that arise when artists, scholars and museum practitioners come together with historic objects.

List of contents

List of figures; Language and transliteration; Glossary; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Tim Ingold; Introduction : Encountering a Model; Part 1: Places and history -- 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Narrative and voice; 1.3 Silence and yhyakh; 1.4 Yhyakh returns; Part 2: Exhibition narratives -- 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 A model made for display; 2.3 Puteshestvie Dlinoiu v Vek / Century Long Journey: connecting people with collections; 2.4 Narrating the model in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia); Part 3: Craftsmanship and creativity -- 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Mammoth ivory as material; 3.3 Carving as art and craft; 3.4 Artistic futures: the model and the aspiring artists; Conclusion: model of yhyakh as a narrative object; Index.

About the author

Tatiana Argounova-Low is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. As an Indigenous Sakha scholar, she conducts her work in her homeland - Sakha Sire - and other parts of Siberia. Her academic interests include questions of ethnic identity and nationalism, mobility and transport, and art and creativity in Siberia.
Alison K. Brown holds a personal chair in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, UK. As a museum anthropologist, her work brings together people with collections separated by time and distance and draws on fieldwork in Canada, the USA, the Russian Federation, and Scotland. She is co-editor of the journal Museum Worlds: Advances in Research.

Product details

• Authors: Tatiana Brown Argounova-Low, Argounova-Low Tatiana, Brown Alison K.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2025
• EAN: 9781138315334
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31533-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Anthropological Studies of Creativity and Perception
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Eastern Europe, The arts: general issues, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, History of art / art & design styles, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, History of Art, Regional Studies, Social and cultural history, Social and cultural anthropology, Regional / International studies, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, The arts: general topics