Narrative Objects - 9781138315334

Narrative ObjectsMuseums, the Sakha Summer Festival, and Cultural Revival in Siberia\nAuthor(s): Tatiana Argounova-Low, Alison K. Brown\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138315334, 978-1138315334\nSynopsis\nNarrative 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 Arts Museum 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 cu.