Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums / edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2012.

x, 238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

The material culture of persecution : collecting for the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne Bardgett -- Lyricism and offence in Egyptian archaeology collections / Stephen Quirke -- Contested human remains / Jack Lohman -- Extreme or commonplace : the collecting of unprovenanced antiquities / Kathy Walker Tubb -- Unfit for society? : the case of the Galton Collection at UCL / Natasha McEnroe -- Knowing the new / Susan Pearce -- The global scope of extreme collecting : Japanese woodblock prints on the Internet / Richard Wilk -- Awkward objects : collecting, deploying and debating relics / Jan Geisbusch -- Great expectations and modest transactions : art, commodity and collecting / Henrietta Lidchi -- Extremes of collecting at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2009 : struggles with the large and the ephemeral / Paul Cornish -- Plastics -- why not? : a perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics / Susan Lambert -- Time capsules as extreme collecting / Brian Durrans -- Canning cans, or, What you can do with tins : an interview with Robert Opie / J.C.H. King.

Includes bibliographical references and index.