Museums in the Material World
Published on 7. August 2007
392 pages
978-1-134-11589-1 (ISBN)
Description
Museums in the Material World seeks to both introduce classic and thought-provoking pieces and contrast them with articles which reveal grounded practice. The articles are selected from across the full breadth of museum disciplines and are linked by a logical narrative, as detailed in the section introductions.
The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice, how the practices of the past have been critiqued and in some cases replaced, how it has become necessary to look beyond and outside disciplinary boundaries, and how old practices can in many circumstances continue to have validity.
Museums in the Material World is about broadening horizons and moving museum studies students, and others, beyond the narrow confines of their own disciplinary thinking or indeed any narrow conception of collections. In essence, this is a book about the practice of interpretation and will therefore be of great use to those students and museum practitioners involved in the field of material culture in museums.
The choice of articles reveals how the debate has opened up on disciplinary practice, how the practices of the past have been critiqued and in some cases replaced, how it has become necessary to look beyond and outside disciplinary boundaries, and how old practices can in many circumstances continue to have validity.
Museums in the Material World is about broadening horizons and moving museum studies students, and others, beyond the narrow confines of their own disciplinary thinking or indeed any narrow conception of collections. In essence, this is a book about the practice of interpretation and will therefore be of great use to those students and museum practitioners involved in the field of material culture in museums.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
2,96 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-11589-1 (9781134115891)
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Simon Knell
Museums in the Material World
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07/2007
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Simon Knell
Museums in the Material World
Book
07/2007
1st Edition
Routledge
€230.65
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Person
Simon Knell is Head of Department at the Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester
Content
Section 1: Empiricism, Context and Expertise Section 2: Politics, Subjectivity and Interpretation Section 3: Possession, Consumption and Identity Section 4: Time, Change and Transient Meanings
