The object of conservation: ethnographic insights on heritage practice

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How are conservation objects made? What is the moral purpose of that making and what practical consequences flow from this? Foregrounding the hidden labour of keeping things as they are, the paper explores the ethical commitments and dilemmas involved in trying to care well.


Pitt Rivers Museum Research Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology, Trinity 2022

Online on Teams (the link is above)

Fridays, 12pm-1.30pm (Weeks 1-5)

Convened by Lola Martinez