ABSTRACT
In this chapter, however, the author focuses particularly on thing- and viewer-centred aspects of powerful encounters. It attempts to draw threads together and to argues that the displacement approach per se provides not only a method but also an ethical framework for understanding the lives, and suffering, of people and things. It requires the paying of particular attention to the journeys literal and metaphorical people and things have made and the thresholds they have had to cross in the process, and as the middle part of this chapter shows to the different forms of displacement that can continue to occur. Greverus, for example, utilises Leiris's approach to ethnography to highlight the value of 'touching' experiences such as the one the author have described in the Foundling Museum, in her case framing them in terms of avant-garde uses of juxtaposition and collage to provoke and evoke boundary-crossing experiences.
