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Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge by Angus Vine

Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge by Angus Vine Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/115/867424/0270115.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 the director of the Getty Trust, James Cuno, which reprises his plaidoyers — i n Who Owns Antiquity? (2008) and Museums Matter (2013) — for the encyclopedic museum as an engine of “a counternarrative to those of modern nation- states claiming an ethnonationalist link to the remains of cultures found within their sovereign borders.” The difc fi ulty represented by this position is that most often the peoples who have been disinherited of their material culture now live in nations whose boundaries were defined in the first place by the colonial conquests of modern, mostly European, nation- states. The special exhibitions constituting collaborations among national museums to which Cuno points do not necessar - ily reinforce the case for encyclopedic museums; quite the contrary. In this as in other respects, the global turns out to be a Gordian knot, but not one that a latter- day Alexander, whose empire was the ultimate exemplar of global ambition, can so easily sever. At the very least, this volume helps one appreciate and trace the tangles in the web. — J effrey F . Hamburger doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723177 Angus Vine, Miscellaneous Order: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Common Knowledge Duke University Press

Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge by Angus Vine

Bushnell, Rebecca
Common Knowledge , Volume 27 (1) – Jan 1, 2021
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/common-knowledge/article-pdf/27/1/115/867424/0270115.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 the director of the Getty Trust, James Cuno, which reprises his plaidoyers — i n Who Owns Antiquity? (2008) and Museums Matter (2013) — for the encyclopedic museum as an engine of “a counternarrative to those of modern nation- states claiming an ethnonationalist link to the remains of cultures found within their sovereign borders.” The difc fi ulty represented by this position is that most often the peoples who have been disinherited of their material culture now live in nations whose boundaries were defined in the first place by the colonial conquests of modern, mostly European, nation- states. The special exhibitions constituting collaborations among national museums to which Cuno points do not necessar - ily reinforce the case for encyclopedic museums; quite the contrary. In this as in other respects, the global turns out to be a Gordian knot, but not one that a latter- day Alexander, whose empire was the ultimate exemplar of global ambition, can so easily sever. At the very least, this volume helps one appreciate and trace the tangles in the web. — J effrey F . Hamburger doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723177 Angus Vine, Miscellaneous Order:

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