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Museums : A Visual Anthropology.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture SeriesPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780857852113
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: MuseumsDDC classification:
  • 301.074
LOC classification:
  • GN35.B68 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
Museums -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Museums in the Twenty-first Century -- 2 Stretching the National Museum -- 3 A History of Ethnographic Museums -- 4 The Ethnography of Museums -- 5 Practices of Object Display -- 6 Object and Image Repatriation -- Afterword: Teylers Revisited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Museums summarises the central debates for the study of museums around the world. Examining ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of their visual and material culture, Museums is essential reading for anthropology and museums studies students.
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Museums -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Museums in the Twenty-first Century -- 2 Stretching the National Museum -- 3 A History of Ethnographic Museums -- 4 The Ethnography of Museums -- 5 Practices of Object Display -- 6 Object and Image Repatriation -- Afterword: Teylers Revisited -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Museums summarises the central debates for the study of museums around the world. Examining ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of their visual and material culture, Museums is essential reading for anthropology and museums studies students.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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