Making sense: Experiential engagements with ethnographic photographs Horn, Christine 2017, Making sense: Experiential engagements with ethnographic photographs, Museum and Society, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 301-323, doi: 10.29311/mas.v15i3.2542. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Making sense: Experiential engagements with ethnographic photographs Author(s) Horn, Christine Journal name Museum and Society Volume number 15 Issue number 3 Start page 301 End page 323 Total pages 23 Publisher University of Leicester Place of publication Leicester, Eng. Publication date 2017-11 ISSN 1479-8360 Summary This article examines the role of embodied and performative knowledge in the museum environment, with a particular focus on ethnographic photographs. The study is based on the return of several hundred ethnographic photographs from the Sarawak Museum to Indigenous communities in rural Malaysia, where they had been taken by museum photographers from the early 1950s onwards. Aside from the oral narratives that emerged during the discussions and interviews, contextual knowledge was provided in embodied form. The return of the photographs to people in the source communities prompted the re-enactment of activities, re-telling of stories and production of cultural heritage to which the photographs referred. Such embodied knowledge, defined as knowledge preserved through performance and embodied activities, relates to the multi-vocal narratives about objects that museums are increasingly trying to include in their exhibitions. In this article I argue for a greater and more experimental use of sensory means to convey information about artifacts to museum audiences.   Keywords:Ethnographic photographs, Photography, Embodied knowledge, museum archives, Sarawak, Southeast Asia Language eng DOI 10.29311/mas.v15i3.2542 Field of Research 1506 Tourism 1608 Sociology 2102 Curatorial and Related Studies HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Free to Read? Yes Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30161927 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges   Link to full-text (open access)     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 08:59:26 EST Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 15:17:05 EST Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 15:25:27 EST Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 15:26:11 EST Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 15:31:08 EST Tue, 25 Jan 2022, 09:30:21 EST Sat, 26 Feb 2022, 05:03:26 EST Wed, 04 May 2022, 15:18:06 EST Wed, 04 May 2022, 15:19:51 EST Wed, 04 May 2022, 16:04:03 EST Wed, 04 May 2022, 16:36:47 EST Thu, 05 May 2022, 15:36:54 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 12 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 08:59:26 EST