Museums print on demand - A Visual Anthropology

Informationen zum Autor Mary Bouquet is based at University College Utrecht, The Netherlands 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. Zusammenfassung Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise. Cross-disciplinary in scope, Museums uses ideas and approaches both from within and outside of anthropology to further students' knowledge of and interest in museums. Including selected, globally based case studies to highlight and exemplify important issues, the book also contains suggested Further Reading for each chapter, for students to expand their learning independently. Exploring fundamental methods and approaches to engage this constantly evolving time machine, Museums will be essential reading for students of anthropology and museum studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionMuseums in the Twenty-first Century Stretching The National MuseumA History Of Ethnographic Museums The Ethnography of Museums Practices of Object Display Object and Image RepatriationBibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Bouquet, Mary Bouquet, Bouquet Mary
• Publisher: Berg Publishers Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9781845208127
• ISBN: 978-1-84520-812-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture; Key Texts in the Anthropology; Key Texts in the Anthropology; Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies