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1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations |
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New directions in anthropology ; v. 13 |
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New directions in anthropology ; v. 13.
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| Contents |
Introduction : Academic anthropology and the museum. Back to the future / Mary Bouquet -- The photological apparatus and the desiring machine. Unexpected congruences between the Koninklijk Museum, Tervuren and the Umistà Centre, Alert Bay / Barbara Saunders -- Picturing the museum : photography and the work of mediation in the third Portuguese empire / Nuno Porto -- On the pre-museum history of Baldwin Spencer's collection of Tiwi artefacts / Eric Venbrux -- Anthropology at home and in the museum : the case of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris / Martine Segalen -- 'Does anthropology need museums?' Teaching ethnographic museology in Portugal, thirty years later / Nelia Dias -- Towards an ethnography of museums : science, technology and us / Roberto J. González, Laura Nader and C. Jay Ou -- Behind the scenes at the Science Museum, London. Knowing, making and using / Sharon Macdonald -- Unsettling the meaning : critical museology, art and anthropological discourse / Anthony Shelton -- Inside out : cultural production in the museum and the academy / Jeanne Cannizzo -- The art of exhibition making as a problem of translation / Mary Bouquet -- Why post-millennial museums will need fuzzy guerrillas / Michael M. Ames |
| Summary |
The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the ""social"" and the ""material"" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefitted |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropological museums and collections -- History
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Museum exhibits -- History
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Museum techniques -- History
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Museum Administration & Museology.
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REFERENCE -- General.
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TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Anthropological museums and collections
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Anthropology -- Philosophy
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Anthropology -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
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Museum exhibits
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Museum techniques
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bouquet, Mary, 1955-
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| ISBN |
9781782386612 |
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1782386610 |
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1306862094 |
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9781306862097 |
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