Objects of Knowledge
1st Edition
Published on 15. July 2010
248 pages
978-0-567-53666-2 (ISBN)
Description
Volume 1 in a series designed to act as a forum for the dissemination and discussion of new research currently being undertaken in the field of Museum Studies. The series aims to cover the whole museum field and to broadly address the history and operation of the museum as a cultural phenomenon. The papers published are of a high academic standard, and are also intended to relate directly to matters of immediate museum concern. The publication aims to fill a major gap in the present scope of museum-based literature. This volume is concerned with the ways in which meaning is created through museum objects, and the processes which this involves. The papers, however, adopt a wide diversity of stances, ranging widely across the field; some take a broadly theoretical line, and others examine specific areas like museum education and the relationship of museums to native peoples. The volume concludes with a Review Section, covering recent books, exhibitions and conferences.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-0-567-53666-2 (9780567536662)
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Susan M. Pearce
Objects of Knowledge
Book
12/2000
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Plates
- Notes on contributors
- Editorial introduction
- Part One
- 1 Objects, belief and power in mid-Victorian England: The origins of the Victoria and Albert Museum
- 2 The discursive object
- 3 In the lair of the monkey: notes towards a post-modernist museography
- 4 Object lessons in the museum medium
- 5 Objects as meaning
- or narrating the past
- 6 Methodological museology
- or, towards a theory of museum practice
- 7 Cultural empowerment and museums: opening up anthropology through collaboration
- 8 Knowing objects through an alternative learning system
- Part Two
- Reviews
- Can futurism find a place in the Museum of the River?
- The Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago
- Marketing the arts: foundation for success
- The film Art of Darkness
- Museums 2,000
- Co-operation and curatorship: the Swedish-African Museums Programme
- Louis Auchincloss The Golden Calves, 1988
- Daniel Miller Material Culture and Mass Consumption 1988
- Arnold Tyonbee and Daisaker Ikeda Choose Life: A Dialogue 1989
- Call for Papers for forthcoming volumes
- Editorial policy
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
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