**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Relations―between and among objects and media, people, and material and immaterial contexts―define, configure, and potentially transform collection-related social and professional networks, discourses and practices, and increasingly museums and other collecting institutions themselves. This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. The contributors argue that a focus on the―often contested―making and remaking of relations provides a unique conceptual entrypoint for understanding collections’―and ‘their’ objects’ and media’s―complex histories, contemporary webs of interactions, and potential futures. The chapters examine the local, translocal, and transregional relations of collections with regard to their affective, aesthetic, performative, and socio-moral qualities and situate them in the larger geopolitical constellations of precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial settings.