Introduction: Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World

Martin, Meredith; Bleichmar, Daniela

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“…As indicated by the word 'pilgrim' itself, Ming pilgrim flasks are 'objects in motion' (Martin and Bleichmar 2015). Their globular-shaped body can be traced back to the eastern Mediterranean in the Late Bronze Age (Leidy 2015: 74).…”

Section: Objects In Motion: the Trans-border Arrangement Of Ming Pilgmentioning

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The Trans-Border Arrangement of Ming Pilgrim Flasks and the Narrative of Transculturation in the British Museum

Yang

2021

Museum &Amp; Society

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This article revolves around the concepts of trans-border arrangement and transculturation and their significance to a critical theme in the British Museum today: cultural connectivity. Trans-border arrangement refers to displaying and classifying an object in museum space based on the object’s context of production as well as its relations with other objects and people; its transfer, gifting, collection, consumption, and appropriation. It represents, in museum space today, the circulation of material objects across cultural-geographical boundaries over a period of time in the past. To illustrate a trans-border arrangement, this article provides an empirical investigation of the multiple placements of Ming pilgrim flasks in the British Museum’s galleries of China, India, and Europe. This display scheme not only shows how the British Museum can accommodate the narrative of transculturation into its spatial configuration, but also how the institution of the museum can engage in the global turn in art history that blossomed in the late 1990s.

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Section: Objects In Motion: the Trans-border Arrangement Of Ming Pilgmentioning

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The Trans-Border Arrangement of Ming Pilgrim Flasks and the Narrative of Transculturation in the British Museum

Yang

2021

Museum &Amp; Society

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“…In 1737 the Italian natural philosopher Francesco Algarotti wrote, “let the century of things at last rise among us.” If the eighteenth century was the century of things, scientific things figured prominently among them. These things were made or found, or some combination of the two; they talked or were silent (Daston, Things That Talk ; Dupré and Lüthy); they traveled from place to place and around the world, or stubbornly remained local (Parrish; Raj; Findlen; Smith and Findlen; Cook, Matters ; Sloan; Bleichmar and Mancall; Martin and Bleichmar; Schiebinger and Swan; Jorink and Ramakers); they were avidly traded and collected (MacGregor, Curiosity ; Sloan; Schnapper); they were displayed in private and more and more in public (Sloan; Walker; Beretta). They, and their making, formed the basis of empirical knowledge of the world (Smith and Schmidt; Smith, Meyers, and Cook; Stalnaker).…”

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The Material Turn in the History of Life Science

Guerrini

2016

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The “material turn” or the history of things has become a prominent focus in the history of life science of the long eighteenth century. The reassessment of eighteenth‐century science since the 1990s has given particular prominence to medicine and the life sciences. Eighteenth‐century anatomists and naturalists studied, collected, imitated, and represented many kinds of natural things, from the human body to trees. This article considers a variety of new approaches to material culture, museums, and collecting among historians of science since 2000, focusing on natural history and anatomy. The historiography of objects invokes a sensory history of seeing and touching, and a global history of movement across time, place, and culture.

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Mobile Objekte. Einleitung

Vogel

Bauche

2016

Ber Wissenschaftsgesch

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Introduction: Objects in Motion in the Early Modern World

Cited by 13 publications

References 4 publications

The Trans-Border Arrangement of Ming Pilgrim Flasks and the Narrative of Transculturation in the British Museum

The Trans-Border Arrangement of Ming Pilgrim Flasks and the Narrative of Transculturation in the British Museum

The Material Turn in the History of Life Science

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