Abstract
Abstract:This essay explores what happens to objects, and the stories they tell, after a disaster. The focus is a project called the “Cultural Assets Rescue Operation” that was undertaken in the Ishinomaki area of Miyagi Prefecture by a coalition of experts, students, and volunteers to rescue objects after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March, 2011. The objectives of the essay are 1) to provide a first-hand account of rescue activities; 2) to show how the idea of cultural assets emerges from a longer history of preservation, rescue and museums; and 3) to explore the way cultural assets are part of a complex narrative that is always bound to people, and always changing.
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