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Collections Management as Critical Museum Practice brings into focus the knowledges, value systems, ethics and workplace pragmatics that are the foundation of collections management. The book creates a critical dialogue about the underlying philosophies, values and ethics that determine what are and what might be acceptable collections practices.

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Cara Krmpotich is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto, and former Director of the Museum Studies program. She teaches and researches in the areas of critical collections management, repatriation, material culture, and decolonial and Indigenous museology. She has worked in museums in Canada and the United Kingdom. Alice Stevenson is Professor of Museum Studies at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology. She has previously held posts as the Curator of the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and as Researcher in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Her academic specialization is Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egyptian archaeology, but she has a written on a broad range of topics including the history of archaeology, anthropology and museums.

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